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Banner photo: Tents and tables invite exploration at the fall recreation and activities festival on the East Field. Photo by Carolyn Lagattuta.

'The ground started moving all around me'

Twenty years ago this month, the 7.1-magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake struck Santa Cruz and the Greater Bay Area.
The region experienced major damage and loss of life; the campus was shaken but relatively unharmed. [More]

• Your stories: Read first-person accounts of Loma Prieta, and add new ones.
• Remembering: Class captures quake memories of local residents. [More]
• Science: Earthquake assessments have improved since Loma Prieta. [More]

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Student research on the 'icy edge': High in the Peruvian Andes, undergrad Galen Licht was measuring the depth of a glacier and having the time of his life. [More]

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Digitizing the Dead: The University Library has received a $615,175 grant to help put the materials in the Grateful Dead Archive online. [More]

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Engineering the future: Arthur Ramirez, the new dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, talks about his first months on the job, partnerships with Silicon Valley, and what lies ahead. [More]

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Pister Scholarships provide opportunity: Eleven dedicated community college transfer students are attending UC Santa Cruz this fall as recipients of Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Awards. [More]

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Talking inflation: Remarks by economist Carl Walsh were incorporated into a New York Times article about Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second term.

AIDS breakthrough: AIDS vaccine research led by biomolecular engineer Phillip Berman was covered by the San Jose Mercury News, Medical News Today, and other media.

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