Campus News
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Strange ring found circling dead star
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens.
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UCSC humanities dean wins international award
Georges Van Den Abbeele, dean of humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Social Sciences by the European Academy of Sciences.
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AFSCME strike on June 4-5
In a message to the UCSC community, Campus Provost David Kliger writes about an announced strike by the AFSCME union on June 4-5.
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UCSC receives NEA grant to celebrate poetry of environmental advocate Robinson Jeffers
UC Santa Cruz is one of three California organizations who received grants today from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to celebrate the poetry of Robinson Jeffers.
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UCSC in the News
UCSC in the News is a weekly column summarizing prominent media placements UCSC faculty, staff, and students have received.
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Chancellor conveys awards for achievements in diversity
Four individuals and two campus units were honored for their efforts in supporting and increasing diversity at UC Santa Cruz. Chancellor George Blumenthal conveyed the awards during a luncheon May 21 at University House.
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New edition of ‘Natural History’ is a love letter to campus
After nearly 25 years, a new edition of The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus was released this month. The book is lovingly assembled and packed with easily digestible information and more than 125 photos, drawings, diagrams, and maps.
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Emergency web site has information on SC Mountains fire
The campus’s emergency web page (emergency.ucsc.edu) has updated information on this morning’s fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The County of Santa Cruz has proclaimed the Existence of a Local Emergency.
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VETS program aims to help veterans returning to the classroom
Veterans Education Team Support (VETS), a program launching this spring and run by Services for Transfer and Re-Entry Students (STARS), is for veterans returning to school.
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School kids take a field trip to UCSC
Sixty local second-graders visited UCSC on May 22 as part of College Nine and College Ten’s Service-Learning program.
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Santa Cruz Mountains Fire Information
In response to today’s fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, campus staff have added road and other information to the campus’s Emergency management web site http://emergency.ucsc.edu). The site also contains links to local government information as well as local and regional media sites containing coverage of the fire. Please stay informed by visiting that site.…