2007
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Symposium honors chemistry professor Anthony Fink
Friends, colleagues, and students of chemistry professor Anthony Fink came to campus May 26 to attend a symposium in Fink’s honor. Former grad students and postdoctoral associates traveled from Japan, Mexico, South America, and all over the U.S. to attend
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Blumenthal tells Senate that capital projects are back in state budget
Funds for UCSC’s building projects have been added back into the state budget, Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal told the Academic Senate May 30.
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Sutter scholarship will support UCSC health sciences grad in med school
Allison Abresch-Meyer will get some welcome assistance paying her medical school bills thanks to a new scholarship established by the Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center and the Central Coast Alliance for Health to benefit graduates of the health sciences p
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Faculty and Staff Directory Updates
It’s time to update your campus contact information for the next edition of the UCSC Faculty and Staff 2007-08 print directory. Even if you haven’t had any changes to your contact information, please double check your listing to make sure it’s accurate. What is listed online will print in the directory. Check your listing here:…
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UCSC researchers achieve atomic spectroscopy on a chip
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have performed atomic spectroscopy with integrated optics on a chip for the first time, guiding a beam of light through a rubidium vapor cell integrated into a semiconductor chip.
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Graduates of UCSC’s Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture
Around the world, graduates of the UCSC Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture are improving the health of the environment through organic food production, education, advocacy, and social service programs. Here’s a sampling of what a few graduates have
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UC Santa Cruz celebrates 40 years of leadership in sustainable agriculture and organic farming
Decades before Wal-Mart began selling organic food, a charismatic Englishman and a group of students transformed a brush-covered hillside at the University of California, Santa Cruz, into a lush garden where vegetables and flowers were grown without chemi
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40 years at the forefront of sustainable agriculture
Research being conducted today at UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems is rooted in programs and facilities that have been developed since 1967.
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Annual Business Operations Customer Surveys
I am writing to request your participation in the annual customer satisfaction surveys for Purchasing and the Staff Human Resources (SHR) Service Teams. These online surveys will run until Friday, June 15. To take these surveys, please point your Internet browsers to the following addresses: * Purchasing: http://survey.ucsc.edu/BAS/Purch2007 * Staff Human Resources: http://survey.ucsc.edu/BAS/SHR2007 Each survey…
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New book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) explains how self-deception dooms marriages, starts wars, and promotes a culture of unaccountability
In the new book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), Elliot Aronson spells out how the psychological mechanism of self-justification puts us on a slippery slope of self-deception that frequently gets us into enormous trouble when we are unable to ac
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Renew, purchase your 2007-08 OPERS Wellness Card
It is time to renew or purchase OPERS Wellness Cards for the 2007-08 academic year. For the best price, sign up by June 13.
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Another agreement is reached to improve campus wages
I was very pleased to learn that UC and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) reached an agreement last week to increase the wages of service and patient care employees earning less than $40,000 per year. The pact affects approximately 14,300 employees systemwide, which includes about 500 employees at UCSC. The…