November 2007
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Norrie’s at the Arboretum to hold Holiday Open House Dec. 1
Norrie’s gift shop at the Arboretum will hold its annual Holiday Open House, featuring a great selection of gifts and decorations, on December 1 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Season of giving gets under way
Whether it’s throwing a donation party to collect toys for needy children or filling Second Harvest bags with canned goods, opportunities to give will be abundant on campus this holiday season.
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UCSC in the News
UCSC in the News is a weekly column summarizing prominent media placements UCSC faculty, staff, and students have received.
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UCSC Summer Session wins awards
UCSC Summer Session recently won two awards at the 2007 Western Association of Summer Session Administrators (WASSA) conference held in Maui, Hawaii.
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Theoretical physicist says polymers in a vacuum may yield valuable data
A theoretical analysis of polymer behavior suggests that large molecules should behave very differently when they are in a vacuum than when in solution, suggesting new opportunities for analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry.
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Women at Work to hold craft sale Dec. 7
The staff organization Women at Work will hold a craft sale December 7 to raise money for scholarships for the Women at Work Retreat.
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Campus seeing recycling boom
Recycling has been on the upswing for the past two years, but the campus has experienced a surge in the practice since students arrived with the start of this year’s academic term.
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Annual holiday food drive under way
The Academic Senate and Staff Advisory Board invite you to join us in donating nonperishable food and cash to the Second Harvest Food Bank Holiday Food Drive.
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Nations embracing jury system as part of ‘wave of judicial reform,’ says UC Santa Cruz expert
Countries around the world are embracing the jury system in a wave of judicial reform that is democratizing jurisprudence in nations as diverse as South Korea, Mexico, and Japan, according to jury expert Hiroshi Fukurai.
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How to make the brightest supernova ever: explode, collapse, repeat
UCSC astrophysicist Stan Woosley provided an explanation for a supernova so bright–about 100 times as luminous as a typical supernova–that it challenged the theoretical understanding of what causes supernovae.
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Marc Mangel to chair special committee on seals
Marc Mangel, professor and chair of applied mathematics and statistics, has been appointed chairperson of a committee that advises the British government on the status of seal populations in British waters.
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Biomedical Research Facility protest: Facts & Figures
Overview: UCSC has worked diligently in its 42-year history to build a campus that respects and preserves its spectacular environment. That’s one reason why UCSC is universally recognized and consistently ranked as one of the most beautiful campuses in the world. It’s also a reason why campus faculty and staff designated two existing parking lots…