March 2008
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Campus security report shows progress, says more to be done
A report on campus security by the University of California following the Virginia Tech massacre last year outlines the gains the system has made on measures to protect students, staff, and faculty–but acknowledges that the effort is a work in progress. “The university can take pride in the many positive and proactive actions that it…
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CruzPay Student Employee Rollout
We are writing to provide you with additional information on the upcoming plans to bring student employees into the CruzPay electronic time reporting system. As the next phase of CruzPay implementation, approximately 2,300 student employees in non-academic positions will begin using CruzPay during spring quarter 2008. CruzPay has been configured to support multiple jobs (assignments)…
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Proposed Revisions to Performance Management Review Process
UCOP is undergoing formal review of the proposed new Performance Management Review Process policy for Officers of the University. The proposed policy is the result of a collaborative effort of the Joint Academic Senate/Administration Task Force (comprised of campus faculty representation and members from the Academic Senate, Office of the President and campus administrators) formed…
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Alumni associations name Laird Legislator of the Year
UC Santa Cruz alumnus John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, was named Legislator of the Year by the Alumni Associations of University of California.
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UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition
A team of four students from UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering won the first-place trophy in a national student robotics competition for their design of a solar-powered robot that can climb up a vertical ribbon carrying a payload.
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New book spotlights the experiences of Mexicans in Chicago
Chicago is home to one of the largest populations of Mexicans in the United States, and the experiences of Mexican immigrants in the Windy City offer a revealing lesson in how the forces of racism work, according to the author of the new book Mexican C
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UC Santa Cruz anthropologists confirm link between diet and teeth of chimpanzees and orangutans
For the first time, anthropologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have measured the mechanical properties of foods eaten in the wild by orangutans and chimpanzees to test assumptions about the link between diet and the teeth of primates.
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Cattle moo-ve in
Grounds Services manages a contract with a local cattle rancher to bring cattle to campus at different times of the year.
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National engineering honor society installs chapter at UC Santa Cruz
The Engineering Honor Society at UC Santa Cruz was officially installed as the California Alpha Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi in a ceremony held on Saturday, March 8, at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering.
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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.