January 2016
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‘UCSC Mobile’ puts campus tools and information on one mobile-friendly site
ver wish you had all of UC Santa Cruz’s useful references together in one mobile-friendly site? The new UCSC Mobile app is for you!
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Holocaust survivor and scholar Hedwig Rose to give public talk at UCSC on Jan. 21
Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis in 1942, six-year-old Hedwig Rose, her mother, and sister spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian friend until the country was liberated on May 5, 1945.
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Free health screenings offered to UC Santa Cruz employees
UC Santa Cruz employees are eligible for free “Know Your Numbers” health screenings Thursday, Jan. 28, at the 2300 Delaware building and Wednesday, Feb. 3, at the OPERS main building conducted by Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz.
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Task force submits recommendations on new retirement benefits for future UC employees
President Napolitano will next invite feedback on the task force recommendations from faculty, staff, and others over the coming weeks to help inform the proposal she is expected to bring to the UC Board of Regents in March.
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Film by UC Santa Cruz art professor nominated for Academy Award
Last Day of Freedom, an animated short by UC Santa Cruz associate professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones and San Francisco artist Nomi Talisman, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the category of best documentary short.
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UC Santa Cruz names Alexander Wolf new dean of Baskin School of Engineering
Currently a professor of computer science at Imperial College London, Wolf will begin his term as dean on July 1, 2016.
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Welcome to Winter Quarter
Welcome back for Winter Quarter and Happy New Year. I hope you all enjoyed a restful break.
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Jenny Reardon, sociologist between science and justice
Reardon creates innovative forums in which scientists and non-scientists alike are invited to think together about the meaning of common concerns, such as those of race, genetics or ecology.
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UC Santa Cruz alumna to join National Council on the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced today that UC Santa Cruz alumna Patricia Limerick is one of three prominent and accomplished individuals who will join the Endowment’s advisory board.
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Student interest in UC Santa Cruz reaches another all-time high
UC Santa Cruz attracted a record 49,133 applications from high school seniors and 9,969 applications from transfer students—also an all-time high—during the recent application cycle for a total of 59,102 applications.
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Stem cell researcher receives American Society of Hematology Scholar Award
The ASH has awarded a $100,000 research fellowship to postdoctoral researcher Jana Krietsch.
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Craft becomes art for celebrated Kiowa artist and alumna
Alumna Teri Greeves uses the traditional skill of beadworking to tell stories in new ways, to create a new language that draws people together.