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  • For second consecutive year, undergraduate applications to UC Santa Cruz exceed 30,000

    For the second year in a row, more than 30,000 prospective undergraduates have applied to the University of California, Santa Cruz for admission in the upcoming fall quarter.

  • Award-winning actress/UCSC alumna to perform “I Am That I Am: Woman, Black”-Jan. 28

    Award-winning actress/UCSC alumna to perform “I Am That I Am: Woman, Black”-Jan. 28

    Award-winning actress and UCSC alumna Adilah Barnes will perform her one woman show-I Am That I Am: Woman, Black-on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. in the College 9 & 10 Multipurpose Room. Admission is free and open to the public.

  • UCSC climbs to No. 2 on Peace Corps top colleges ranks

    The University of California, Santa Cruz rose to second place on the annual list of Peace Corps Top Colleges (for the medium-size school category), its highest ranking since the Peace Corps began releasing its list in 2003.

  • Expression of Ideas

    As the winter quarter gets underway, several events planned by students and student organizations will be taking place on campus over the next several weeks and probably well into the spring quarter. These events range from rallies, speakers and marches. UC Santa Cruz is committed to assuring that all persons may exercise the constitutionally protected…

  • UCSC professor provides academic expertise for unusual San Francisco art exhibition

    UCSC professor provides academic expertise for unusual San Francisco art exhibition

    When the directors of San Francisco’s Museo ItaloAmericano decided to create an exhibit about Italian Jewish life in the age of the Ghetto (16th-19th centuries), the first thing they did was a Google search on the topic. What they found was UC Santa Cruz

  • Prop. 8 transformed the film Milk, writes film scholar B. Ruby Rich

    The passage of Proposition 8 transformed the film Milk into a political touchstone, says film scholar B. Ruby Rich.

  • Winter quarter message from Chancellor Blumenthal

    I hope you had a restful, restorative winter break. I want to take a moment to reflect on some of the opportunities and challenges awaiting us in coming weeks and months. First, on this momentous day, I want to make special note of the engagement of our students in the political process. Many were involved…

  • Career fair peaceful; diverse opinions represented

    While students expressed a diversity of opinions on the presence of military recruiters at a campus job fair on Tuesday–the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Programs ran a table at the fair–there were no clashes, and the event went peacefully.

  • Job opportunities for students

    In this tight job market, the Career Center is working hard to connect students with hiring employers and career development opportunities.

  • Admission…

    More high school seniors and prospective transfer students than ever applied to study at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for fall 2008. Numbers released today by UC’s Office of the President showed one-year increases at UCSC of 13.8 and 11.5 percent, respectively, in freshman and transfer applications. These increases compared to a UC systemwide…

  • UCSC in the News

    Chris Darimont’s research on the impact of commercial fishing and hunting on the size and reproductive patterns of fish and other species was covered by the New York Times, NPR, Reuters, the BBC, and many other media outlets.

  • Three faculty honored with emeriti professorships

    Three members of UCSC’s faculty have been honored with emeriti professorships for the current academic year.

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