Campus News
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Run with the Slugs on April 19
The 9th annual UCSC Slug Run will take place at the East Fields on Saturday, April 19.
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Sammy the Slug in national spotlight
Our Sammy the Slug mascot, nationally ranked in a recent ESPN poll (http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1933), will be showcased on CBS’s popular Sunday Morning show this weekend as part of the network’s promotion of the Final Four men’s basketball championships. Bill Geist, a CBS correspondent and regular on the show, will wear our slug suit (on loan from…
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SUA Elections Update
For those students not running for office, please note that there are plenty of opportunities to become involved throughout the elections process, including: Signing candidate petitions: -For SUA officer positions, please remember not to sign more than one candidate petition for the same position (otherwise could lead to the disqualification of a candidate). -For college…
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Meet George Blumenthal: UCSC’s 10th chancellor is focused on the campus’s future
In a recent conversation, George Blumenthal looks to the future and reflects on UCSC’s past and its evolution as a nationally ranked university. His inauguration is set for June 6.
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McHenry Library moves its way into the 21st century
Over spring break, University Librarian Virginia Steel oversaw the move of materials from the original McHenry Library into the library’s recently opened new addition.
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Hatchery fish outnumber wild chinook salmon in troubled fall run
A recent study indicates that wild salmon may account for just 10 percent of California’s fall-run chinook salmon population, while the vast majority of the fish come from hatcheries.
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Maximum Fun: Alum Jesse Thorn woos young listeners with a new brand of radio show
Jesse Thorn (B.A. American studies, Porter ’03) has gone national with “The Sound of Young America,” which first aired at UCSC in 1999.
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Engineering Hope: UCSC bioelectronics engineer designs prostheses that promise to change lives
Wentai Liu is an electronics wizard whose work is enabling the development of devices once found only in the realm of science fiction–miniaturized electronic implants to restore vision, movement, and other biological functions lost to disease or injury.
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Rx for Health Care: Graduates of UCSC’s innovative health sciences program are good medicine for California’s ailing health-care system
Diego Inzunza grabbed a laptop on his way past the laboratory inside Plazita Medical Clinic, where jaunty Mexican music danced from a large speaker on the counter. Holding the computer open like a clamshell in one hand, the 21-year-old UC Santa Cruz stude
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Chancellor sends spring message to UCSC community
In a video message to kick off the spring quarter, Chancellor George Blumenthal highlights recent achievements at UC Santa Cruz, including the fact that UCSC professors won two of 15 UC President’s Research Fellowships in the Humanities. The chancellor also hails the first-place trophy four UCSC engineering students won in a recent national robotics competition…
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Update on McHenry Library renovation project
The contents of the original McHenry Library building were moved into the new addition over spring break so the older building can be renovated with seismic upgrades and improvements. This construction is scheduled to take approximately 18 months. The Library is now open, and access to the new addition is currently available through a temporary…
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Play golf June 6 and support women’s sports at UCSC
The 5th Annual Rita Walker Golf Scramble, a fundraiser for UCSC women’s sports, will take place on June 6 at DeLaveaga Golf Course. Registration is under way now.