Campus News
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Alumni Profile: Across a Hundred Mountains
Born in rural Mexico, UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande grew up in extreme poverty. Before she crossed the border to live in Los Angeles at the age of eight
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Student-led mock trial team makes it to nationals
In only its third year, the UCSC mock trial team made it to the semifinal round of the national college mock trial championship, facing off against powerhouse teams from Yale, the University of Pittsburgh, and Loyola University Chicago.
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Senior Design Contest features interdisciplinary student projects
Undergraduate students in computer engineering and electrical engineering presented their senior design projects before a panel of judges in the Baskin School of Engineering’s Senior Design Contest.
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Wildlife photographer Kennan Ward branches out with feature-length documentary about grizzly cubs
Kennan Ward, who earned a B.A. in environmental studies and wildlife biology from UC Santa Cruz in 1980, has spent three decades crisscrossing the globe to photograph animals in the wild.
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Physicist Bruce Rosenblum to speak at UCSC on Monday, April 9
Physicist Bruce Rosenblum will give an Emeriti Faculty Lecture on the topic of “The Quantum Enigma: Has Physics Encountered Consciousness?”
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Lecture at UCSC to address engineering and national priorities on Thursday, April 12
Richard Buckius, assistant director for engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF), will speak at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, April 12, on the topic of “Engineering and National Priorities.”
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UCSC lecture series spotlights coastal policy challenges
A ten-week lecture series at UC Santa Cruz on “Coastal Policy Challenges of the 21st Century” will be held on Wednesdays at 2 p.m., starting April 4.
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Judge Kelvin Filer accepts Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
Compton Superior Court Judge Kelvin Filer (B.A. politics, 1977) made a whirlwind visit to campus last week to accept the second Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award, meet with students, and field questions from aspiring attorneys during a legal stud
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Technology maintenance may affect work during week of March 26
We write to inform you about technology maintenance that is occurring next week to three different services that may affect your work. * The main campus Web site, www.ucsc.edu, will be moved to new servers on Tuesday, March 27, at 6 p.m. As a result of this work, there will be a short outage to…
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Wage increases for lower-wage employees
I am delighted to announce that the UC Office of the President (UCOP) and the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) have reached an agreement on UC’s proposal to increase the wages of our lowest paid clerical employees. This is an important first step toward increasing the wages of all of our lowest paid employees. I…
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UC Santa Cruz to collaborate with three universities for live online concert
Musicians from UC Santa Cruz and three other universities will improvise music over the internet simultaneously from different locations in a live telematic music concert on Thursday, March 22, at 5 p.m. The performance will stream live. As part of her MFA Thesis in Digital Arts and New Media (DANM), UC Santa Cruz graduate student…