May 2011
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UC Santa Cruz has lost a dear friend
Chancellor Blumenthal shares the news of the passing of Rita Pister, wife of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Emeritus Karl Pister.
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Student Achievement Week: recognizing excellence
UC Santa Cruz will honor a long list of outstanding scholars, visual artists, performers and researchers during the annual Student Achievement Week festivities from May 28 to June 3. This week allows these students to present their work in highly public settings, from an annual print sale to a sciences and engineering poster symposium.
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UCSC in the News
Seismologist Thorne Lay was quoted in stories about the earthquake risk in Japan in the aftermath of the devastating March quake and tsunami, including a story in Nature and an Associated Press story that ran in the Washington Post.
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Time to Renew Parking Permits and Metro Bus Passes
It is time for staff and faculty to renew or purchase parking permits and Metro bus passes for 2011-12.
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Business Design Competition: high-tech test-grading system designers win top prize
UCSC engineering graduate student Paul Abumov and McMaster University astrophysics graduate Nicolas Petitclerc won the top spot at this year’s Business Design Competition. A patent is pending for their innovative, high-tech test-grading system.
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Vaccine expert Phillip Berman named finalist for Health Care Heroes Award
The Silicon Valley Business Journal has named vaccine expert Phillip Berman a finalist for the 2011 Health Care Heroes Award.
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TiE Service Award recognizes UCSC entrepreneurship
UCSC was honored with a TiE Service Award for efforts to promote entrepreneurship.
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UC Santa Cruz students reap the benefits of Measure 43
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of Measure 43, the student-funded Sustainable Food, Health, and Wellness Initiative at UC Santa Cruz that has treated thousands of students to a broad menu of ways to learn about food, including workshops, campus conferences, events, and classes.
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UCSC economist expects emerging economies to push for next IMF head
The resignation of the head of the International Monetary Fund sets the stage for a tussle between developing countries and European economies, according to Joshua Aizenman, an international economics expert at UC Santa Cruz.
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Ant Farm founder and emeritus professor Chip Lord to be honored at UCSC film symposium
Years before he joined the faculty at UCSC, Chip Lord was a member of the Ant Farm, a groundbreaking, experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels.
