2014
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Campus Traffic Delays During Road Construction Work
Construction crews are expected to begin major roadway repair work on Monday July 28th, on campus roads in four different locations.
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UCSC creates scholarship fund in memory of slain Soquel resident J. Gordon Smith
A scholarship fund honoring the late J. Gordon Smith has been established by his former colleagues at Long Marine Laboratory.
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Studying death in ancient Greece
Last year, UC Santa Cruz received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to undertake a summer institute investigating the history of mortality in ancient Greek culture…
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F. Joel Ferguson Appointed as UCSC’s Senior International Officer
Announcing the appointment of F. Joel Ferguson as UCSC’s Senior International Officer, effective July 1, 2014.
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Organic flower-growing, bouquet-making workshop set for Sat., July 19
An organic flower-growing, bouquet-making workshop is set for Saturday July 19 at the Alan Chadwick Garden on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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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.