2011
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Alum’s high-finance career talk draws eager crowd
A formally dressed, resume-toting group of career-minded students was part of the standing-room-only crowd at last week’s Career Center event, which featured Sam Rosenberg (Cowell ’93, math), a rising star at the Paris-based Societe Generale. Employing 130,000 people worldwide, the firm is the world’s 9th largest bank and investment house.
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UCSC in the News
History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to The Nation revealing how new Wikileaks cables show that US-funded troops in Honduras have been collaborating with a known drug trafficker in his private army’s war against campesinos in that country.
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UCSC grad is an editor of the ‘Occupied Wall Street Journal’
Despite the bust-up of Occupy encampments nationwide, a UC Santa Cruz graduate who helps edit the newspaper for the popular movement credits media outreach with spreading the message of economic fairness beyond the downtown parks where the movement began.
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UCSC gets top spot in nationwide “vegan schools” contest
UC Santa Cruz has come in first place in a heated, five-week contest to determine the “#1 vegan friendly college in the nation.”
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Chocolate Festival volunteers needed
Volunteers needed for the annual Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival on Sunday, January 22, 2012 from 1 – 4 p.m.
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Campus leadership supports peaceful demonstations
Chancellor George Blumenthal and CP/EVC Alison Galloway comment on police actions at UC Davis and Berkeley and express support for the right to peacefully demonstrate on UC campuses.
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Ulcer-causing bacteria tamed by defect in cell-targeting ability
Without the ability to swim to their targets in the stomach, ulcer-causing bacteria do not cause the inflammation of the stomach lining that leads to ulcers and stomach cancer.
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Our University: new family care benefit, signing the patent amendment, and more news for UC faculty and staff
Read about a new benefit offering access to childcare, eldercare and other family care resources. Learn more about the upcoming patent amendment signing process required of all faculty and staff. Read about UC’s pioneering farms, people who make a difference and much more. See these stories in the November Our University available at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/ouruniversity/nov11/ A…
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Open Enrollment 2012 ends Tuesday, November 22 at 5 p.m.
If you haven’t already done so, you have until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, November 22 to make UC health and welfare benefit plan changes for 2012.
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Campus experiencing significant email outage
The UCSC campus has been experiencing a significant email outage since approximately 6 a.m. today (Thursday, November 17). The campus’s Information Technology Services area is posting status information on the outage at: http://its.ucsc.edu/news/its-news/email-outage.html Thank you for your patience.
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet to read at 2nd Morton Marcus event, Nov. 20
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kay Ryan—the U.S. Poet Laureate from 2008-2010, who just a few weeks ago received a MacArthur (“genius”) Fellowship award–will be the featured guest at the 2nd annual Morton Marus Memorial Poetry Reading, Sunday, November 20.