March 2012
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Join your fellow Boston area UCSC Alums (BSLUGS)
Join your fellow Boston area UCSC Alums (BSLUGS) as we check out the much acclaimed Renzo Piano-designed wing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We’ll have plenty of time to also visit the gorgeous courtyard gardens and world-renown surrounding galleries. Afterwards at 1 p.m., we’ll have lunch nearby at The Squealing Pig. The 70,000 square…
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Alumni Reunion weekend: embracing tradition, celebrating innovation
UCSC grads will have many opportunities to reminisce at the Natural History Field Quarter 40th Reunion, a Black Alumni Alumni Reunion, an Oakes College’s 40th Anniversary brunch, a Cowell College reunion and the UCSC Class of 2002’s 10-year Reunion.
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Peregrine falcon eggs on San Francisco high-rise about to hatch
Four peregrine falcon eggs in a nest at the San Francisco headquarters of PG&E are expected to hatch any day, according to the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, which has successfully reintroduced peregrine falcons to the wild after the species was nearly decimated 40 years ago.
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Peregrine falcon eggs on San Francisco high-rise nest about to hatch
our peregrine falcon eggs in a nest at the San Francisco headquarters of PG&E are expected to hatch any day, according the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, which has successfully reintroduced peregrine falcons to the wild after the species was nearly decimated 40 years ago from the effects of the pesticide DDT.
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Astrophysicist Michael Turner speaks April 16 on what came ‘Before the Big Bang’
Eminent cosmologist Michael Turner will discuss the origins of the universe in a free public lecture on Monday, April 16, at the Rio Theater.
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UCSC in the News
Inside Higher Ed published a commentary on the “digital humanities” by computer scientist Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
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International drilling expedition to probe Japanese fault zone
UC Santa Cruz scientists are involved in an ambitious drilling project to measure properties of the fault that caused the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
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Washington Post highlights UC Santa Cruz as an ‘up-and-comer’
The Washington Post highlights UC Santa Cruz as one of five universities that “really are up-and-comers.”
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2012 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity Nominations Due April 2nd
You are invited to submit nominations for the 2012 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity.
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Researchers win grant to explore commercial potential of sensor technology
A new class of biomedical diagnostic devices are among the possible uses for the optical sensing technologies developed in Holger Schmidt’s lab.
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UCSC professor joins acclaimed writers for new Passover ‘users manual’
Two weeks ago, author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) went on the Stephen Colbert show to promote his latest book New American Haggadah…