2014
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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In Memoriam: Krish Patel
Krish Patel, a College Nine senior majoring in Business Management Economics and Applied Physics, has passed away.
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UCSC announces three finalists for national architect competition
UC Santa Cruz announced that Allied Works Architecture (Portland/New York), Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (New York), and the team of Patkau Architects (Vancouver, B.C.) and Fong & Chan Architects (San Francisco) have been selected as finalists in the architect search for the campus’s new Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
