Campus News
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Record-breaking fast radio burst is most distant ever detected
Scientists have discovered an eight-billion-year-old fast radio burst (FRB) – the most ancient and distant located to date.
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Risk-taking, independent comics creator Sina Grace (Stevenson ‘08, literature) takes on the legacy of teenage Superman, exploring the vulnerabilities of The Man Of Steel
No one escapes the travails of being a teenager – not even the mighty Superman. Acclaimed comics creator Sina Grace has brought this chapter of Superman’s life to light in the newly published DC graphic novel Superman: The Harvests of Youth.
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Rebates can offer solutions to California’s groundwater woes
Many aquifers in California and around the world are being drained of their groundwater because of the combined impacts of excess pumping, shifts in land use, and climate change. However, a new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley, published on Oct.18 in Nature Water, may offer a solution – it describes…
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Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff in the Division of Social Sciences
The Social Sciences Division’s annual fall breakfast gathered faculty and staff to celebrate the winners of four major divisional awards.
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Dear Slugs: October Dean of Students Newsletter
With fall quarter now in full swing, Dean of Students Garrett Naiman shares a newsletter to connect students with campus information, resources, and events.
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Campus Fire Safety
For more than a decade, UC Santa Cruz has been a smoke-free campus. Under California law, “unlawfully causing a fire that recklessly sets fire to or burns or causes to be burned, any structure, forest land or property is a felony punishable with both imprisonment and fines.”
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UC Santa Cruz guides the way in new report on academic continuity
UC Santa Cruz is heralded for its commitment to academic continuity in times of disruption in a new report titled Planning for Academic Continuity by Every Learner Everywhere.
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Long-term plan to end use of fossil fuels at UCSC is released
The Decarbonization and Electrification (D&E) Task Force has released a long-term campus plan to end the use of fossil fuel at UC Santa Cruz and move to 100 percent clean and renewable energy sources.
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Deer alert – drive cautiously
This time of year drivers and cyclists need to be extra vigilant about deer darting into roadways. It is deer rutting season, when the bucks are in hot pursuit of mates. Deer will often run across roads, appearing to come out of nowhere as the mating season progresses.
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Donor-funded scholarship paves the way for UCSC student’s impactful internship
The Institute for Social Transformation’s Transforming Futures program amplifies internship opportunities for underrepresented students with philanthropic support.
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Campus + Community Center conducting survey about community-engaged scholarship
UC Santa Cruz’s Campus + Community Center (C+C) is conducting a survey of faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs to understand the needs of current and future community-engaged projects and to document and celebrate previous community-based work. Community-engaged work can be scholarship, research, or teaching across disciplines, from archival work to social entrepreneurship, teaching, service…
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Award-winning author and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni will be the honored guest speaker at this year’s Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Chitra Divakaruni, known for her loving and vivid portraits of South Asian culture and the immigrant experience, will be the special guest at the 14th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading on Thursday, November 2 at Merrill College at 6 p.m. The late Morton Marcus was Divakaruni’s friend and early mentor.