November 2013
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Visionary director Peter Sellars to deliver 2013 Maitra Lecture
The UC Santa Cruz Foundation presents the 13th annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture–featuring acclaimed opera, theater and festival director Peter Sellars–on Thursday, December 5, at 7 p.m.
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Geek chic
Groovy couches, big brains, and great camaraderie abound in Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz’s supercomputer lab for undergrads.
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Geek chic: big brains and great camaraderie in Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz’s supercomputer lab for undergrads
The three-year-old SLUG lab is designed for physics and astrophysics majors who want to learn to become independent scientists.
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SUA Spring Music Festival Letter to Community and Poll
UCSC Music and Arts Festival in the Spring on the East Field.
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UCSC computer engineer Katia Obraczka elected IEEE Fellow
Katia Obraczka, professor of computer engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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USPS Substation Closure / Alternative Service Plan
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) substation in the basement of the Engineering Building, which has been available for the personal postal needs of the campus community, will be closed at the end of the fall quarter.
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Lawyer’s class on JFK assassination draws crowd
Many students in a UC Santa Cruz course about the John F. Kennedy assassination were born more than three decades after the president was gunned down in Dallas. But interest in that tragic day remains strong on campus 50 years after the fact.
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Campus Holiday Gathering
Chancellor Blumenthal and Kelly Weisberg invite all faculty and staff to a holiday gathering on Wednesday, Dec. 11 from 4 to 6 p.m.
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Professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves elected to Mexican Academy of Sciences
Professor of computer engineering J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves has been elected a corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
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Arboretum sale in December
Students, faculty, and staff with a UCSC identification card receive a 10 percent discount on all items at Norrie’s Gift and Garden shop at the UCSC Arboretum in December.
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Open Enrollment 2014 Ends Tuesday, November 26 at 5:00 PM
If you haven’t already done so, you have until 5:00 PM on Tuesday, November 26 to make UC health and welfare benefit plan changes for 2014.
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In Memoriam–Gordon Smith
By now most of you know that we lost Gordon Smith, our friend, co-worker, and long-time skipper of the research vessel David Johnston earlier this month. Many of us are still reeling from the news of his death. Gordon began working as the skipper of our research vessel in late 1986 and continued in that capacity until we…