2007
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Physicist Bruce Rosenblum to speak at UCSC on Monday, April 9
Physicist Bruce Rosenblum will give an Emeriti Faculty Lecture on the topic of “The Quantum Enigma: Has Physics Encountered Consciousness?”
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UCSC lecture series spotlights coastal policy challenges
A ten-week lecture series at UC Santa Cruz on “Coastal Policy Challenges of the 21st Century” will be held on Wednesdays at 2 p.m., starting April 4.
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Wage increases for lower-wage employees
I am delighted to announce that the UC Office of the President (UCOP) and the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) have reached an agreement on UC’s proposal to increase the wages of our lowest paid clerical employees. This is an important first step toward increasing the wages of all of our lowest paid employees. I…
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Technology maintenance may affect work during week of March 26
We write to inform you about technology maintenance that is occurring next week to three different services that may affect your work. * The main campus Web site, www.ucsc.edu, will be moved to new servers on Tuesday, March 27, at 6 p.m. As a result of this work, there will be a short outage to…
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Judge Kelvin Filer accepts Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
Compton Superior Court Judge Kelvin Filer (B.A. politics, 1977) made a whirlwind visit to campus last week to accept the second Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award, meet with students, and field questions from aspiring attorneys during a legal stud
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UC Santa Cruz to collaborate with three universities for live online concert
Musicians from UC Santa Cruz and three other universities will improvise music over the internet simultaneously from different locations in a live telematic music concert on Thursday, March 22, at 5 p.m. The performance will stream live. As part of her MFA Thesis in Digital Arts and New Media (DANM), UC Santa Cruz graduate student…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSC Arts & Lectures partners with South County businesses to present Romeo and Juliet for Watsonville students–Friday, March 23–at the Mello Center
The internationally acclaimed Aquila Theatre Company will perform an educational outreach event at the Mello Center for 500 Watsonville High School freshmen and 200 Pajaro Middle School eighth graders. The company will present a “guided tour” of Romeo and Juliet–an hour-long program with both narration and acted key scenes from Shakespeare’s most famous play. When:…
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Hate/Bias Incident on Campus
I am saddened to report that on March 12, offensive and racist messages were etched on a bathroom wall at the Baskin School of Engineering. We do not yet know who is responsible for this incident. However, I want to communicate in the strongest terms possible that this type of hateful vandalism deeply disturbs many…
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UC Santa Cruz to present New Directions in Contemporary Opera, a symposium of panels and performances-April 3-7
The UC Santa Cruz Music Department will present a week-long opera symposium titled New Directions in Contemporary Opera, April 3-7, on the university campus. Conceived and coordinated by music professor/conductor Nicole Paiement and UC Santa Cruz opera director Brian Staufenbiel, the series of panels and performances will bring together scholars, composers, and performers from the…
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UCSC lecturer Ryan Coonerty publishes Etched in Stone, a tribute to 50 memorials and monuments
Anyone who has ever gotten goose bumps visiting the Lincoln Memorial will be drawn to the new book Etched in Stone: Enduring Words from Our Nation’s Monuments.
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RNA enzyme structure offers a glimpse into the origins of life
UCSC researchers have determined the three-dimensional structure of an RNA enzyme, or “ribozyme,” that carries out a fundamental reaction required to make new RNA molecules. Their results provide insight into what may have been the first self-replicating