Campus News
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UCSC Summer Session wins awards
UCSC Summer Session recently won two awards at the 2007 Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA) conference held in Maui, Hawaii.
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Nations embracing jury system as part of ‘wave of judicial reform,’ says UC Santa Cruz expert
Countries around the world are embracing the jury system in a wave of judicial reform that is democratizing jurisprudence in nations as diverse as South Korea, Mexico, and Japan, according to jury expert Hiroshi Fukurai.
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Theoretical physicist says polymers in a vacuum may yield valuable data
A theoretical analysis of polymer behavior suggests that large molecules should behave very differently when they are in a vacuum than when in solution, suggesting new opportunities for analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry.
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Annual holiday food drive under way
The Academic Senate and Staff Advisory Board invite you to join us in donating nonperishable food and cash to the Second Harvest Food Bank Holiday Food Drive.
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Campus seeing recycling boom
Recycling has been on the upswing for the past two years, but the campus has experienced a surge in the practice since students arrived with the start of this year’s academic term.
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Women at Work to hold craft sale Dec. 7
The staff organization Women at Work will hold a craft sale December 7 to raise money for scholarships for the Women at Work Retreat.
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How to make the brightest supernova ever: explode, collapse, repeat
UCSC astrophysicist Stan Woosley provided an explanation for a supernova so bright–about 100 times as luminous as a typical supernova–that it challenged the theoretical understanding of what causes supernovae.
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Marc Mangel to chair special committee on seals
Marc Mangel, professor and chair of applied mathematics and statistics, has been appointed chairperson of a committee that advises the British government on the status of seal populations in British waters.
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Biomedical Research Facility protest: Facts & Figures
Overview: UCSC has worked diligently in its 42-year history to build a campus that respects and preserves its spectacular environment. That’s one reason why UCSC is universally recognized and consistently ranked as one of the most beautiful campuses in the world. It’s also a reason why campus faculty and staff designated two existing parking lots…
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Environmental protection can’t be bought, says author of new book Shopping Our Way to Safety
Like a marketer’s dream come true, Americans have responded to environmental hazards by shopping, as if buying bottled water and organic vegetables will protect them and their loved ones. But sociologist Andrew Szasz says “buying green” offers little real
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Pogonip training burn, November 13
The City will be conducting their training burn in Pogonip starting at 11:00 today. It was postponed last week due to weather.
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Ancient retroviruses spurred evolution of gene regulatory networks in primates
Ancient retroviruses helped a gene called p53 become an important “master gene regulator” in primates, according to a new study.