February 2008
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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 signs cooperative agreement with Korean University
Chancellor Blumenthal signed an academic cooperation agreement with representatives of a Korean Buddhist University that calls for the reciprocal exchange of faculty, staff, and students; joint research projects; and the exchange of academic publications
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Assistance for visitors coming to UC Santa Cruz this spring
Spring is a crucial time of year for university-bound high school seniors and college transfer students, since now is when they must decide where to enroll for fall. Our campus will experience an increase in visitors during this period, anticipating approximately 8,000 visitors. This increase is good news for the campus and continues to show…
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Staff invited to attend Women@Work Retreat
The 2008 Women@Work Retreat will be held April 24-25 at St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista; staff may apply now to attend.
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Earth scientist James Zachos elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
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Animated tutors help remedial readers, language learners, autistic children
Tools developed by researchers exploring language and speech comprehension can become powerful aids for remedial readers, children with language challenges, and anyone learning a second language, according to psychology professor Dominic Massaro of the Un
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Who is Sammy Slug? A look behind the yellow veil
Inside, Sammy the Slug is just like you and me. Human, that is. The role of UCSC’s beloved mascot, the Banana Slug–aka Sammy–has been filled by various students, faculty, and staff.
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CEMELA hosts research symposium at UCSC Inn
The Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELA) recently hosted a research symposium that attracted more than 60 participants from four states.
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Winter Open Staff Forum with Chancellor Blumenthal
The Staff Advisory Board will host the Winter-quarter Staff “Brown Bag” Open Forum with Chancellor George Blumenthal on Wednesday, February 27, from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., in the Stevenson Event Center. This is the second Open Forum since the appointment of George Blumenthal as our new Chancellor. Please bring your questions to ask the Chancellor…
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Important Thumbs Up Award Update, please resubmit nominations!
We regret to announce that due to a technical error, all of the Thumbs Up Awards nominations submitted until late Thursday, February 7th were not saved in the database. We have sent an e-mail to each submitter for which a nomination was received confirming their details. If you submitted AFTER 5:00 on Thursday, February 7th,…
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UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone
UCSC researchers have received funding from Microsoft Research to develop a virtual speech therapist, accessible on a cell phone, to aid stroke survivors in Malaysia.
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Incidents of Vandalism and Harassment
We are writing to inform you of several recent incidents of intimidation to faculty and staff, purportedly over laboratory research involving animals. The incidents include harassing phone calls and graffiti vandalism at the victims’ homes. While property damage thankfully was not major, these events are deeply upsetting to the people involved and their families. We…