2011
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What I’m Hearing From Students This Quarter
Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway responds to three primary concerns she’s hearing from students this quarter.
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Arguing for a ‘new humanism’ in medicine
While a new era is dawning for personalized medicine, Abraham Verghese is on a crusade to bring back the lost art of hands-on medical practice.
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Retired faculty and alumni lend strength to fundraising
Retired faculty Edward and Miriam Landesman and alumnus Stephen Bruce have provided financial support for Cal Teach.
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Taking chances
Lionsgate president and alum Kevin Beggs dishes on Weeds, Charlie Sheen, Mad Men, critical thinking, and the element of risk.
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Teaching the teachers
UC Santa Cruz serves California through Cal Teach, a program that encourages and prepares math and science students to become teachers.
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UCSC in the News
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in an Atlantic magazine story about the Kepler mission and the search for Earth-like planets, and exoplanet research by Laughlin and graduate student Kevin Shlaufman was covered in Science News, Astrobiology, and Space Daily.
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Social Sciences honors teachers, staff members, students
Three teachers in the social sciences were honored for teaching and research as the division held its annual staff and faculty fall breakfast Oct. 12.
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UCSC’s digital artists take over museum for one night only-Oct. 21
This Friday, October 21, student and alumni artists from UCSC’s Digital Arts & New Media (DANM) program will transform Santa Cruz’s Museum of Art & History into a dynamic hub of new interactive digital art and technology.
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Seismologist Emily Brodsky featured in research profile
Emily Brodsky, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, is regarded as one of the most promising researchers into the physics of earthquakes.
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Beyond calories and consumption, new book critiques obesity orthodoxies
Julie Guthman, associate professor of community studies, challenges many widely held assumptions about the “obesity epidemic” in her new book, “Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism.”
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Decoding cancer
With the genome era dawning, UCSC researchers are at the forefront of developing new therapies for one of humanity’s most heartbreaking challenges. Has cancer finally met its match?
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Flu Shot Clinics on Campus – Students
Seasonal Flu shots will once again be offered to students at the Student Health Center located across from the University Center and Colleges 9 & 10 on McLaughlin Drive.