July 2014
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Alumnus Cary Fukunaga earns Emmy nomination for HBO’s ‘True Detective’
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Fukunaga has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of “Outstanding Director for a Drama Series” for the HBO show “True Detective”
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Retired UC Santa Cruz staff members endow scholarship for student veterans
A group of retired UC Santa Cruz staff members has met its goal to raise $50,000 to endow a fund that commemorates the late project architect Bruce Lane and helps veteran military students on campus.
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Renewal of Employee-Initiated Reduction in Time (ERIT) Program
The University is renewing the Employee-initiated Reduction In Time (ERIT) Program which allows policy covered career staff employees, except members of the Senior Management Group (SMG), to voluntarily reduce their working time and corresponding pay in order for the University to achieve temporary salary savings.
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Earth scientist Patrick Fulton to receive Early Career Award from AGU
AGU’s Jason Morgan Early Career Award recognizes Fulton for outstanding research contributions.
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UC Santa Cruz graduates featured at SF innovative art and music festival
Interactive art installations by four recent UC Santa Cruz graduates will be featured at the opening night of Soundwave–San Francisco’s innovative biennial three month art and music festival—at the California Academy of Sciences.
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UC Santa Cruz grad student’s odiforous research featured in ‘Good Times’
UC Santa Cruz doctoral student Hanyu Wang is researching how to convert poop to power. Wang’s effort to revolutionize the production of hydrogen fuel using only sewage and sunlight was featured in a recent cover story in the weekly Santa Cruz Good Times‘ special environmental issue. According to Hanae Armitage’s article, Wang has “successfully engineered…
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UCSC Grounds Services wins sustainability best practice award
The UCSC Grounds Services Department received the Sustainability Best Practice Award for Innovative Waste Reduction at the 2014 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference.
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UC Santa Cruz names Elizabeth Cowell new University Librarian
M. Elizabeth Cowell has been selected by UC Santa Cruz as the campus’s new University Librarian, effective July 15.
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Appointment of University Librarian
Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway announces the appointment of M. Elizabeth Cowell as University Librarian, pending approval by UC President Janet Napolitano.
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Two UC Santa Cruz Earth scientists honored by American Geophysical Union
Gary Glatzmaier and Thorne Lay will receive AGU medals in recognition of their breakthrough achievements in Earth science.
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Porter College hosts ceremony for 94 newly naturalized U.S. citizens
Ninety-four new Americans were sworn in during citizenship ceremonies held Wednesday at Porter College on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Location Change for UCSC’s Designated Occupational Medicine Clinic
Effective Monday, July 7, 2014, Santa Cruz Occupational Medical Center (SCOMC), UCSC’s designated facility for treatment of on-the-job injuries, will be operating from a new location.