July 2016 News Archive
- August 1, 2016
Linking agriculture and art
Harrell Fletcher, a former UC Santa Cruz Farm apprentice who recently created the campus-wide art project Collective Museum, will return as keynote speaker for the sixth annual
- July 29, 2016
Catherine Jones wins 2016 Abbott Prize for best book on the history of children
Associate professor of history Catherine Jones has been honored with the Grace Abbott Book Prize for the best book published in 2015 on the history of children and
- July 27, 2016
Seismologist Susan Schwartz elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Schwartz was honored by the AGU for exceptional contributions to the Earth
- July 27, 2016
UC Santa Cruz grad Cecilia Im earns Sutter scholarship for medical school
$10,000 annual scholarship established by Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center and the Central California Alliance for
- July 25, 2016
In Memoriam: Bruce Bridgeman
UC Santa Cruz professor of psychology and psychobiology, Bruce Bridgeman, an internationally renowned researcher on spatial orientation and neuroscience, was tragically killed July 10 after being struck by
- July 21, 2016
St. Baldrick's Foundation funds Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative with $2.5 million grant
Precision medicine project aims to double the number of childhood cancer patients benefitting from genomic
- July 21, 2016
Geophysicist Robert Coe honored by American Geophysical Union
The AGU has awarded the John Adam Fleming Medal to Robert Coe, professor emeritus of Earth and planetary
- July 20, 2016
Sustainable agriculture educators gather at UC Santa Cruz
Nearly 400 agriculture educators, trainers, food system activists, farmers, cooks, and students of sustainable agriculture from around the country will visit UC Santa Cruz July 29-31 as the
- July 20, 2016
Smell of smoke from fire at Wilder Ranch near campus
Overnight and this morning a strong smell of smoke was apparent on campus, particularly on the west side.
- July 18, 2016
Follow-up of Kepler data yields more than 100 confirmed exoplanets
International team reports the biggest haul of new worlds yet uncovered by NASA's K2
- July 18, 2016
Retirement of Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Alma Sifuentes
I am writing to announce the retirement of Alma Sifuentes, who has served as associate vice chancellor and dean of students for the past nine years.
- July 14, 2016
UCSC humanities dean contributes to Time Magazine’s ‘25 Moments That Changed America’
In late Spring, Time Magazine reached out to 25 historians and asked them to nominate a pivotal moment in history that has changed our nation. One of the
- July 14, 2016
Research competition to unravel how cancer changes a cell’s RNA
Open challenge aims to find the best algorithms for detecting all of the abnormal RNA molecules in a cancer
- July 14, 2016
Financial aid director tapped to serve on student aid commission's advisory board
The California Student Aid Commission is responsible for some of the largest grant programs available at the University of California.
- July 14, 2016
Undergrad publishes field guide to campus spiders
Spider guide is the first in a series of natural history field guides produced by the UCSC Campus Natural
- July 14, 2016
Campus Review: Revised Fire Protection Policy
As required by the standard campus policy review process, Business and Administrative Services is proposing updates for the UC Santa Cruz Fire Protection Policy.
- July 13, 2016
International economics graduate named deputy managing director of the IMF
Zhang Tao, who received his masters and Ph.D. degrees in international economics from UC Santa Cruz, has been appointed deputy managing director of the International Monetary
- July 7, 2016
Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher honored by Geological Society of America
Fisher's Recharge Initiative aims to replenish California's depleted groundwater
- July 6, 2016
Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf
Difficult spectroscopic observations reveal properties of the coldest known object outside of our solar
- July 6, 2016
UC Santa Cruz increases admissions offers for Californians
The campus accepted nearly 4,728 more California high school students than last year—a 27 percent increase—and also marked gains in the numbers of African American, Asian American, and
- July 6, 2016
‘The Blob’ overshadows El Niño
The Blob and El Niño are on their way out, leaving behind a disrupted marine ecosystem along the West
- July 5, 2016
Patricia Zavella wins anthropology association gender equity award
Patricia Zavella, UC Santa Cruz professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has been named winner of the 2016 American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology
- July 1, 2016
Welcome to Baskin School of Engineering Dean Alexander Wolf
I want to officially welcome to campus Alexander Wolf, who today began his appointment as dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering.
