March 2010 News Archive
- March 31, 2010
Galen Licht
- March 30, 2010
Front Page: bottom headlines
- March 30, 2010
Economic meltdown prompts a rethinking of capitalism
Two dozen scholars from around the world will gather at UC Santa Cruz April 8-10 to explore the social and political effects of modern-day capitalism and the global economy in light of esoteric financial instruments that nearly brought it down.
- March 29, 2010
Nadine Gassner receives 2010 Ellen Weaver Award for mentoring women in science
Nadine Gassner, associate director of the UC Santa Cruz Chemical Screening Center, has been chosen to receive the 2010 Ellen Weaver Award for mentoring young women in science.
- March 29, 2010
Lawrence Pitts named University of California provost
- March 24, 2010
Community invited to Day by the Bay celebration April 17
For the first time, UC Santa Cruz is expanding its annual reunion weekend with "Day by the Bay," an open invitation to the Santa Cruz community to visit the UCSC campus on Saturday, April 17 for a fair and picnic along with a host of other activities.
- March 24, 2010
7th Annual Slug Golf Scramble, May 21
- March 24, 2010
Social Documentation director is executive producer of new PBS documentary
Professor Renee Tajima-Pena, graduate director of the Social Documentation program at UC Santa Cruz, is executive producer of <i>Whatever it Takes,</i> a new documentary airing on PBS March 30 at 10 p.m. The films follows an retail executive who becomes p
- March 24, 2010
Richard Gil
- March 23, 2010
The Spring Evening Chancellor's Staff Forum
- March 23, 2010
Monitoring program surveys California's marine ecosystems
Teams of scientists are conducting the most comprehensive assessment ever undertaken of California's coastal ecosystems as part of a monitoring program for the growing network of marine protected areas along the coast.
- March 22, 2010
UCSC in the News
Seismologist Emily Brodsky was interviewed on <b>National Public Radio's Morning Edition</b> on the subject of whether big earthquakes increase seismic activity
- March 19, 2010
Devil Makes Three set for special UCSC evening at the Rio
The Devil Makes Three-the Santa Cruz-based Americana trio that will be headlining UCSC's April 17 Reunion Weekend celebration with an evening concert at the Rio Theatre-has been compared to everyone from Steve Earle to the Violent Femmes to the White St
- March 18, 2010
Rare Hawaiian monk seal brought to Long Marine Lab for study and treatment
A Hawaiian monk seal is providing UCSC researchers with a rare opportunity to study the physiology of this critically endangered species.
- March 18, 2010
Student profile: Christian Schwarz--a fascination with fungi
Christian Schwarz is a senior ecology and evolution major with a passion for all things that fly, swim, run, or grow--but his soft spot is fungi.
- March 17, 2010
Save the Date-UC Retirement Benefits Update
- March 17, 2010
UCSC wins $2.1 million to collaborate with Watsonville High School teachers
A multidisciplinary team at UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $2.1 million grant to foster collaborations between UCSC graduate students and Watsonville-area high school teachers to develop innovative approaches to teaching math and science through hands-o
- March 16, 2010
M. Brewster Smith selected to receive Social Sciences emeriti award
Social psychologist M. Brewster Smith, whose ground breaking insights into the ways in which people's political ideas relate to their personalities, has been selected to receive the 2010 Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty Award.
- March 16, 2010
Travel advisory for students
- March 16, 2010
CAPS Move and Services during Spring Break
- March 15, 2010
Revitalizing Undergraduate Education at UC Santa Cruz
- March 15, 2010
Politics professor's new book explores branding in big-city politics
A new book by politics professor Eleonora Pasotti explores the emergence of "brand" politics taking hold in cities that have historically been entrenched in poor government, patronage, corruption, lack of development, social conflict, and political apathy
- March 15, 2010
New Hubble treasury project to survey first third of cosmic time
Astronomers will peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution in an ambitious new project requiring an unprecedented amount of time on the Hubble Space Telescope.
- March 15, 2010
UCSC in the News
<b>New Scientist</b> and <b>Popular Science</b> magazines ran stories about research by planetary scientist Don Korycansky on possible consequences of trying to blow up an asteroid heading toward Earth
- March 15, 2010
Call for Applications and Nominations for the Vice Provost and Dean-Division of Graduate Studies
- March 15, 2010
Applications and Nominations Now Being Accepted for CP/EVC Position
- March 11, 2010
Annual budget publication posted
- March 11, 2010
Campus Architect Frank Zwart named to architects' College of Fellows
Frank Zwart, UC Santa Cruz campus architect and associate vice chancellor for physical planning and construction, has been named to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
- March 11, 2010
New York Times features story on historical impact of UCSC's Grateful Dead Archive
The front page of the March 11 Arts section of the New York Times featured a story by Larry Rohter about UCSC's Grateful Dead Archive and its historical impact and value.
- March 10, 2010
UC Santa Cruz makes 'most beautiful college campuses' list
UC Santa Cruz is among the campuses cited by Forbes magazine as the "most beautiful" in the world.
- March 9, 2010
Be a part of history: Participate in the 2010 Census
- March 9, 2010
Researchers to explore hidden world of life beneath seafloor
A new science and technology center will coordinate the efforts of scientists to explore the "deep biosphere" beneath the ocean floor.
- March 9, 2010
Message from Dave Kliger regarding March 4
- March 9, 2010
Life Lab offers Spring Break Day Camp
Spring break is coming right up and parents of children ages 7 to 11 are invited to register their youngsters for a week of garden-based fun at the UC Santa Cruz Farm. The Life Lab Science Program's annual Spring Break Day Camp will take place from 9 a.m
- March 8, 2010
UCSC in the News
The <b>Los Angeles Times</b> featured a story on the opening of the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive in New York
- March 7, 2010
Seymour Center honors alumna Kathryn Sullivan with Global Oceans Award
The Seymour Center at Long Marine Laboratory will honor former astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan at the Global Oceans Awards Gala.
- March 7, 2010
2010 Chancellor's Achievement Awards for Diversity
- March 7, 2010
Students take UC's case to the Capitol
A UCSC student's first-person account of the March 1 education lobbying effort in Sacramento.
- March 4, 2010
Transportation Update: Both campus entrances open, vehicles traveling through each
- March 4, 2010
Baskin School of Engineering sponsors award for girls in computing
The Baskin School of Engineering is helping to sponsor a new award for young women in the greater San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in computing and technology.
- March 4, 2010
Message from the Chancellor
- March 4, 2010
Message from the Chancellor about March 4 protest
- March 3, 2010
Campus access due to protest over state-budget cuts
- March 3, 2010
Budget protest's impact on campus on March 4
Information about the March 4 protest on campus occurring as part of a statewide effort to call attention to reductions in state support for public education.
- March 3, 2010
CruzAlert message
- March 3, 2010
Update on Campus Protest
- March 3, 2010
Update on Campus Protest
- March 3, 2010
Update on Campus Protest
- March 3, 2010
Photos: March 4 budget protest
Photos from the day-long protest on campus March 4 as part of a statewide effort to call attention to reductions in state support for public education.
- March 2, 2010
March 4: Grounds, Custodial, Fleet and Building and Utility Services
- March 2, 2010
March 4: Receiving Services
- March 2, 2010
March 4: Transportation Services
- March 2, 2010
Spring Campus Curtailment 2010
- March 2, 2010
March 4: Dining Services
- March 2, 2010
March 4: Childcare Services
- March 2, 2010
March 4: Mail Services
- February 28, 2010
Professor's documentary on folklórico premieres Saturday
As a Merrill College undergraduate, Olga Nájera-Ramírez discovered Mexican folklórico dance and was immediately captivated. It has become a lifelong interest. Now, the UC Santa Cruz professor of anthropology has produced a documenta
- February 28, 2010
Offensive graffiti on campus
- February 28, 2010
UCSC in the News
Multiple news outlets, including <b>Discovery News, National Geographic News,</b> and <b>FoxNews.com,</b> quoted astronomers Douglas Lin and Jonathan Fortney in stories about their study of a massive planet being devoured by its sun
- February 28, 2010
First large exhibition of UCSC's Grateful Dead Archive opens in New York on March 5
The first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be on display at the New-York Historical Society from March 5 through July 4.
- February 28, 2010
Men's tennis team wins its third indoor national championship
The Slug men's tennis team won its third Indoor Team Championship in St. Peters, Minn., in late February.