October 2012
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Hot Dates
Founders Celebration 2012 October 12, 2012 Founders Celebration 2012 Honorees Foundation Medal Martin Rees, England’s Astronomer Royal Intel Corporation cofounder Gordon Moore and wife Betty Moore, founders of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fiat Lux Award George Ow & Gail Michaelis Ow, renowned community philanthropists Alumni Achievement Award Shannon M. Brownlee, writer and essayist…
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Get social: comments from Facebook
Are you still connected to your first roommate? What life lesson did you take away from the experience? Tracie Burruel: My first roommate is one of my closest friends. Life lessons … time helps you remember the good things. Stay in touch with the ones you like, you may never see them again. If you…
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Seasonal Flu Shot Clinics on Campus
Seasonal Flu shots will once again be offered to staff and faculty at the Student Health Center located across from the University Center and Colleges 9 & 10 on McLaughlin Drive.
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Forums, web pages explore candidates, issues as election approaches
With the state and national election less than four weeks away, several election forums and events are scheduled at UC Santa Cruz. In addition, the campus has prepared a comprehensive web page with information on candidates, state ballot initiatives, and deadlines for registering to vote.
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UCSC chemist develops spray to detect poison oak’s toxic oil
Researchers have developed a spray that can be used to detect poison oak’s toxic oil on clothes and equipment, and potentially on skin.
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Winter Campus Curtailment 2012-2013
Our 2012-2013 Winter Campus Curtailment is scheduled for the time period of December 22, 2012 through January 1, 2013.
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From the chancellor
Young, smart, and beautiful. There are many ways to describe UC Santa Cruz, but those three words sum us up remarkably well.
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Video message from Chancellor Blumenthal
Fall Quarter video message from Chancellor Blumenthal.
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Triloki Pandey wins Gandhi medal for non-resident Indians
Triloki N. Pandey, a professor of anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Medal by the NRI Welfare Society of India.
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Professor Richard “Ed” Green will be featured on PBS science show
Season premiere of NOVA scienceNOW featuring UCSC professor will air at 10 p.m. October 10 on PBS station KQED Channel 9.
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Private giving climbs 9.4 percent at UCSC; alumni giving nearly triples
Private donors gave nearly $24 million in gifts and pledges to support UC Santa Cruz in fiscal year 2011-2012, an increase of 9.4 percent from the previous year. Alumni giving roughly tripled — from $2.5 million to $7.3 million, and alumni giving increased from 11 percent of the total to 30 percent.
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UCSC in the News
New findings on the diets of great white sharks was covered in the Los Angeles Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, KION TV, Science Daily, PhysOrg, RedOrbit, and eScienceNews, with quotes from researchers Paul Koch and Sora Kim. Electrical engineer Michael Isaacson was quoted in stories about…