June 2016
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Graduate research on toxic metals earns international award
Environmental toxicologist Kingsley Odigie received the Kharaka Award from the International Association of Geochemistry.
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Ecologist Kristy Kroeker named Faculty Climate Action Champion for 2016-17
Kroeker will address how environmental changes in the ocean could affect human health.
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Campus earns gold in higher education sustainability ratings
The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) is designed to be a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance.
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Derek Conrad Murray appointed to Art Journal editorial board
UC Santa Cruz associate professor Derek Conrad Murray, an interdisciplinary theorist in the History of Art and Visual Culture Department, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Art Journal.
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Stories of research, excitement, and surprise at Graduate Research Symposium
UC Santa Cruz storytelling project StoryCruz captures first-person narratives from graduate students describing their research and their hopes.
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Why the climate change fight needs a new type of entrepreneur
Physicist Sue Carter says entrepreneurs have a critical role to play in finding solutions to climate change.
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UCSC’s Gail Project wins first prize in national ‘Shout Out for the Humanities’ contest
Why is studying the humanities–history, literature, languages, philosophy, culture–important? How would you convince your parents, an employer, a politician, or others that there is value in pursing the humanities?
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Sci-fi meets soprano with Star Trek opera
UC Santa Cruz–affiliated professors and staff are boldly going where no one has gone before by taking Star Trek into the high-culture realm of arias and recitatives.
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California Whistleblower Protection Act – annual notice
The university’s Whistleblower Policy provides multiple avenues for employees to bring forward concerns of potential employee misconduct.
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UC Santa Cruz team wins game design competition at E3 event
A team of students in the Games and Playable Media master’s program won the Social Connection GameJam competition.
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Campus altar honors lives lost in Orlando
The Cantú Queer Center, the Chicano Latino Resource Center, and the Women’s Center have created an altar that will be on display through July. The centers are happy to collaborate in other community support efforts.
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2016-2017 annual overtime compensation election for represented non-exempt employees
During the month of June, for the departments/units that continue to offer the option of compensatory time, employees in the bargaining units listed above can make a change to their current overtime compensation election.