October 2012
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Early Education Services wins funding to expand hours, services for students
A $165,000 grant to Early Education Services at UC Santa Cruz has enabled the program to extend childcare hours for students’ children and provide an observation room for developmental psychology research.
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CASFS hosts author Michael Pollan before Santa Cruz benefit appearance
Author and UC Berkeley journalism professor Michael Pollan visited the UC Santa Cruz Farm on October 25 before taking part in the “Everybody Eats” benefit panel discussion later that evening at Santa Cruz High School.
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Reminder: Chancellor’s Staff Forum – Nov. 1
This is a reminder that the SAB-sponsored Fall Staff Forum with the Chancellor will take place this Thursday, November 1, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. at Stevenson Event Center.
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Update from the Division of Undergraduate Education
Updates from Richard Hughey, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education.
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UCSC in the News
History professor Dana Frank contributed articles to The Nation and Foreign Affairs about how violence and human rights abuses have spiked in Honduras since the 2009 coup, in some ways abetted by U.S. policy in the region.
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Announcing 2013 Mandatory Campus Elections Orientations
Students,please mark your calendars for the upcoming orientations for those interested in authoring a student fee referendum, opinion poll, or SUA Constitutional Amendment on the 2013 Campus Elections ballot.
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Cyber Security series: Passwords and Phishing
With October being National Cyber Security Awareness Month, ITS is running a series of four articles this month that highlight important cyber security topics and provide some concrete steps you can take. This week’s cyber security article is about passwords and phishing.
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Image of hand shows progress toward proton radiography
Researchers developing a new medical imaging technology that uses protons instead of x-rays presented the first proton radiographic image of a hand.
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Budget news and the Nov. 6 election
Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway has prepared a web-based message about the campus budget and the Nov. 6 election.
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Happy or sad, take part in Election Night events
Numerous venues on campus will be open on the evening of Tuesday, November 6, for election-night gatherings. These college locations provide an opportunity to be happy or sad and to laugh or cry — with others — as the election results roll in. All of these are open to all UCSC students, faculty, staff, and…
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UCSC physicist inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UCSC faculty member Peter Young was among 180 influential artists, scientists, scholars, authors, and institutional leaders who were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony earlier in October at the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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UCSC’s United Way Campaign: November 1–15
In the next few weeks, we have an opportunity to reach out to those in need of our help and make a difference in their lives through an annual gift to the United Way.