2011
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Paso Robles homicide
Chief Nader Oweis asks members of the UCSC community to call our Police Dispatch immediately (831-459-4858) if they see a vehicle meeting this description.
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UCSC in the News
NPR’s All Things Considered covered biomolecular engineer David Haussler’s research on vertebrate evolution.
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Three waves of evolutionary innovation shaped diversity of vertebrates
Analysis of genomes finds three periods of innovation in gene regulation occurred during the evolution of animals with backbones.
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2011/12 Merit Program for non-represented academic and staff employees
We are writing to share with you a letter from President Yudof to Chancellors that outlines the general terms of the 2011/12 merit program for non-represented academic and staff employees.
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UC Santa Cruz receives $500,000 gift to establish George Hitchcock poetry endowment
UC Santa Cruz has received a gift of $500,000 to establish The George P. Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund at Porter College.
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Preview Day 2011 — Saturday, October 15
Preview Day is the annual Saturday campus tour opportunity for prospective students and their families.
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UC Santa Cruz makes top 10 list of “greenest” schools in Sierra magazine
Once again, UC Santa Cruz has broken into a top-10 list of green-minded colleges and universities in Sierra magazine’s “Cool Schools” issue.
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UCSC in the News
Research by planetary scientist Erik Asphaug was featured in a Nature news story about the Dawn spacecraft’s investigation of the asteroid Vesta.
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UC Santa Cruz honored for ‘green’ lighting retrofit at Science & Engineering Library
The UC Santa Cruz campus has just earned yet another “green” building award for sustainable practices. The latest honor, the Best Practice Lighting Award, recognizes the extraordinary amount of electricity the university will save each year because of its recent retrofit of the Science & Engineering Library.
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Mount Hamilton not recommended for viewing Perseid meteor shower
There are plenty of good places from which to observe the Perseid meteor shower this weekend, but atop Mount Hamilton is not one of them.
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Heller Drive improvement project update
The Heller Drive improvement project has caused some delay for those traveling on the west side of campus.
