Campus News
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Assistant Chancellor to become interim EEO/AA Office director
Assistant Chancellor/Chief of Staff Ashish Sahni will serve as interim director of the Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) Office when current Director Patti Hiramoto leaves to join CSU Monterey Bay later this month.
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Online auction aims to help fund scholarships
Scholarship Benefit Dinner organizers have added an online auction to the event, with all proceeds benefiting scholarships. Auction items include private tours, a VIP dinner and celebrity poker with Emmy Award-winning actress and UCSC alumna Camryn Manhei
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Judith Aissen named Fellow of Linguistic Society of America
Linguistics professor Judith Aissen has been named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. She received the honor at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the organization, held January 3-6 in Chicago. Similarly honored at the meeting was professor emeritus of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum. “Election as a Fellow recognizes a record of distinguished contributions to…
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Graduate student’s film featured at Sundance Film Festival
Documentary filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura can’t wait to see his film screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He just wishes he could get his hands on enough tickets for all his friends and family.
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UC Santa Cruz professor investigates the extraordinary power of insults
What kind of injury is an insult? Is its infliction determined by the insulter or the insulted? What does it reveal about the character of both parties, as well as the character of society and its conventions? What is its role in social and legal life? How ready should we be to forgive? Those questions…
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EEO/AA offering workshops for supervisors, assistants
The Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office is sponsoring two training series over the winter and spring quarters.
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UCSC stands out in survey of high-impact research in molecular biology and genetics
UCSC is among the leading institutions in a recent analysis of the hottest papers in molecular biology and genetics, standing at the top of the field by one measure used in the survey.
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Hot exhibits for a cold January at Smith Gallery
The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery at Cowell College will show works by Claire Lerner and Jimmy Chen beginning January 20.
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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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Sea otter study reveals striking variability in diets and feeding strategies
Scientists studying southern sea otters at different sites in California’s coastal waters were not surprised to find that the dietary diversity of the population is higher where food is limited. But this diversity was not reflected in the diets of individ
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Grounds crews clean up tons of storm debris
Campus grounds crews worked throughout the emergency campus closure January 4 and over the weekend, sweeping, scooping and cutting up approximately 80 cubic yards of accumulated material shaken loose by 60- to 80- mile-an-hour winds that buffeted the regi
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New national historic area helps reveal clues about a bygone era
Long understood locally to be an important historical resource, the former lime operations area near the base of campus at UCSC is now recognized nationally. Dubbed the Cowell Lime Works Historic District, in December the site was added to the National Re