March 2013
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UCSC workshop March 30 reveals the fine points of composting
Learn what it takes to make quality compost happen at the “Compost for the Home Garden and Orchard” workshop Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Alan Chadwick Garden on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Alumni Weekend: Reliving memories, making new ones
Excitement is building for UCSC’s premiere alumni event, April 26-28, which is packed with reunions, celebrations, receptions, and opportunities.
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Our University – March 2013
Our University — A new Onward California video series, Keck Observatory’s 20th anniversary and more news for UC faculty and staff.
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Baskin School of Engineering hosts meeting on women in technology
Members of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Pacesetters Program met at UCSC in February.
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Stretch your brain at Alumni Weekend ‘Teach In’
Returning Banana Slugs will have an opportunity to “go back to class” with a selection of engrossing lectures to choose from during Alumni Weekend, April 26-28.
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End-of-Quarter Stress
As the quarter draws to a close, it is not unusual for our students to feel some pressure or anxiety as they work on important assignments and take final exams.
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Physicist Sue Carter to lead APS energy research group
Physicist Sue Carter has been named chair elect of the American Physical Society’s group on Energy Research and Applications.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz announces lineup for 2013 season
Shakespeare Santa Cruz will open with the popular comedy, “The Taming of the Shrew,” and continue through Sept. 1 with “Henry V” and “Tom Jones.” For the first time, all shows will take place outdoors among the redwoods in the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen.
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Alumna Belle Yang contributes cover art to second issue of Catamaran
“Kite”–a 1997 painting by UC Santa Cruz alumna Belle Yang—is the featured art on the cover of the just released Spring 2013 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader.
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Easing students through the dog days of midterms
UCSC’s Science and Engineering Library hosted a very successful pilot program allowing hard-working young scholars to ease their stresses and pet a “therapy dog.”
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Historic Hay Barn to be reinvented as environmental center
Thanks to a $5 million gift, the historic Cowell Ranch Hay Barn at UC Santa Cruz will be reinvented as the centerpiece of a revived campus entrance and new home for many of UCSC’s innovative environmental sustainability programs.
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Students’ Safety Concerns
It has been a trying couple of weeks. We are grateful to see the UCSC community rally together out of concern stemming from the report of a very serious campus crime, as well as in response to a number of acts of other unimaginable violence in the greater Santa Cruz community.