Campus News
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Plugging in: Making changes in the way we use energy
Interdisciplinary courses help students understand the science and the societal impact of energy issues.
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Change on a fork
Dining Services is cooking up ways to accomplish its twin goals: serving good-tasting, locally sourced, sustainably grown organic food-and aiming for zero waste.
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Serving sustainability
UCSC Dining Services has taken many steps over the past five years to increase sustainability.
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A sustaining vision
Planners have maintained the characteristics of the campus’s extraordinary site while fulfilling the academic mission.
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Richard Harris: One cool reporter
1980 Crown College graduate was drawn to journalism while taking a science writing course from John Wilkes.
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Study points to disruption of copper regulation as key to prion diseases
An investigation of a rare, inherited form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease suggests that disrupted regulation of copper ions in the brain may be a key factor in this and other prion diseases.
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Campus safety, security update and scheduled CruzAlert tests
Today marks the second anniversary of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, which claimed 32 lives and wounded many more. Since that time, UCSC has taken great strides to improve safety and security on our campus and our ability to respond to both man-made and natural emergencies. At the beginning of the Fall 2008 Quarter,…
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Reminder about transportation changes on Monday
As detailed in an April 7 message from Vice Chancellor McGinty to UCSC students, a number of campus transportation and parking restrictions will be in effect on Monday, April 20, beginning at 3 p.m. and continuing into the early evening. For details, including updated information on transportation, please see the earlier message at: http://messages.ucsc.edu/text.asp?pid=2826
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Rep. Sam Farr lauds Peace Corps volunteers at UCSC reception
Former Peace Corps volunteers, current members, and their families joined Rep. Sam Farr and UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a spirited reception and film screening last Monday at the University Center Alumni Room.
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New book explores relations between universities and industry
Developing University-Industry Relations addresses the transfer of new discoveries and innovation from the research conducted at universities to the commercial sector.
