![In 50th year, UC Santa Cruz sees unprecedented undergraduate interest](/2015/01/images/studentlife-80.jpg) | In 50th year, UC Santa Cruz sees unprecedented undergraduate interest Undergraduate applications for fall 2015 jumped 11 percent over the previous year, the second highest percentage increase among the UC campuses. |
![Dressing up to party down](/2015/01/images/dress-up-day-thumb.jpg) | Dressing up to party down In honor of the year-long 50th anniversary celebration, the party gets started Thursday with an informal 1965-style dress-up day on campus. |
![Professor emerita Angela Davis to headline annual MLK Convocation](/2015/01/images/angela_davis-thumb.jpg) | Professor emerita Angela Davis to headline annual MLK Convocation Students, staff, faculty, and community members are invited to the 2015 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation Wednesday, Jan. 28. |
![International economics Ph.D. named first woman on Swiss central bank](/2014/12/images/maechler_andrea-80.jpg) | International economics Ph.D. named first woman on Swiss central bank UC Santa Cruz grad Andréa Maechler will join the three-member Swiss National Bank board July 1. |
!['Missing Microbes' author to speak Thursday on overuse of antibiotics](/2015/01/images/martin-blaser-thumb.jpg) | 'Missing Microbes' author to speak Thursday on overuse of antibiotics Dr. Martin Blaser describes how the discovery of antibiotics ushered in a golden age of medicine, and then traces the adverse effects of their overuse. |