2014
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Your Turn
Raves, rants, recommendations, and love letters from our readers and social media friends.
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Editor’s Note: Where were you?
People often ask, “Where were you?” when something momentous and tragic happens—I guess it’s a way to bond, grieve, and share.One such event occurred at 5:04 p.m. on October 17, 1989—25 years ago this month.
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Grad students’ interactive fiction honored at IndieCade games festival
Ice-Bound is an interactive fiction piece created by two graduate students in the UC Santa Cruz Center for Games and Playable Media
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Astronomers create first 3-D map of the ‘adolescent’ universe
Astronomers have created the first map of the ‘adolescent’ universe as it appeared 10.8 billion years ago.
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Campus role in overturning Proposition 8
UC Santa Cruz alumna Kris Perry, a plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit that overturned California’s ban against same sex marriage, described first the process of coming out in college and the decisions that followed later to challenge Proposition 8.
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Acclaimed game designer joins UC Santa Cruz art faculty
Award-winning game designer and producer Robin Hunicke will join the UC Santa Cruz faculty in January as Associate Professor of Art & Game Design.
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From the chancellor: Approaching a milestone
When I walked onto the UC Santa Cruz campus as a young assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics in 1972, I had no idea I’d be here for the next 42 years. The campus was just seven years old—no one was thinking of its 50th anniversary. Yet here I am, and here we are.
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Jessica Fiske Bailey appointed executive director of UC Santa Cruz Arboretum
Jessica Fiske Bailey, assistant vice provost for academic affairs at UC Santa Cruz, has been named executive director of the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum.
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Survey to select new vendor for Quarry Plaza restaurant
The Graduate Student Commons is starting the process of looking for a new restaurant vendor for the first floor of our building in the Quarry Plaza. The space is currently occupied by Joe’s Pizza and Subs, whose contract ends at the end of the academic year.
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UC Santa Cruz named top college for Hispanic students
Noting UC Santa Cruz’s first-year retention rate of 91 percent and 74 percent graduation rate, a college comparison website has named the campus first in the nation for Hispanic/Latino students.
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Diane Gifford-Gonzalez wins social sciences award for outstanding research
Anthropology professor Diane Gifford-Gonzalez is the 2014 recipient of the Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research in the Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.
