March 2014
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Deconstruction begins of historic Cowell Ranch barn
Crews began dismantling the historic Cowell Ranch hay barn Tuesday (March 18), the first step in a multi-year process to rebuild it as a home for many of UCSC’s leading environmental and sustainability programs.
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Gary Young wins 2014 George Bogin Memorial Award for poetry
UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young has received the 2014 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
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UCSC alumnus Hoyt Peckham awarded Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation
Hoyt Peckham has been awarded a 2014 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to expand on work he began as a UCSC grad student.
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UC Santa Cruz alumni perform at Kuumbwa Jazz Center
UCSC alumni filled the Kuumbwa Jazz Center last week for an upbeat evening of music and comedy from their multi-talented fellow banana slugs.
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UCSC results of systemwide campus climate survey
Chancellor Blumenthal writes about a UC systemwide survey, assessing the institutional climate of the university. Nearly one-third of us at UC Santa Cruz took the time to fill out the survey.
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UC releases results of comprehensive ‘climate’ survey of entire system
The University of California has released the results of a systemwide survey that assessed the learning, living, and working environments — or campus climate — for people who go to school or work in the university system.
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2014 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity Nominations
As a reminder, you are invited to submit nominations for the 2014 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity.
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Alumni Weekend: Get ready for ‘likes,’ laughs, and memories
Banana Slugs will turn their antennae back to their redwood-forested alma mater from April 25-27 for Alumni Weekend 2014, returning to the special place that provided many alums with their “original social network.”
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UC Santa Cruz graduates lead major social science associations
UC Santa Cruz graduates Annette Lareau and Carroll Seron are leading two major social science associations.
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Reintroduction experiments give new hope for a plant on the brink of extinction
A critically endangered plant is inching back from the brink of extinction thanks to a UCSC plant ecologist and her students.
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UCSC’s ‘Project Awesome’ supports women in computing
Project Awesome is an ongoing effort to recruit and retain more women students in computer science and computer engineering.
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Preparing for UCSC’s 50th
UCSC’s Founder’s Rock was center stage on a late afternoon on April 17, 1964, when hundreds of people gathered to witness the dedication of the UC system’s newest campus.