October 2016
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Campus to kick-off Quarry Amphitheater restoration
One of the key priorities in the Campaign for UC Santa Cruz, the amphitheater will be restored and reopened for fall 2017.
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Curriculum Management Project team seeks campus feedback
The Curriculum Management Project aims to streamline and improve the systems used to manage campus curriculum and create course catalogs.
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Call for campus projects for Giving Day 2017
Giving Day is a 24-hour online fundraising event to increase support for campus programs, projects, and groups. Project teams reach out to their network of supporters and friends to raise money and compete for prize dollars.
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‘Look Back in Time: Russell Crotty and Lick Observatory’ exhibition opens in San Jose
‘Look Back in Time: Russell Crotty and Lick Observatory,’ the first traveling exhibition of the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, opens November 13 at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
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UC Santa Cruz advances in U.S. News and World Report’s global rankings
The campus has continued to increase its ranking, now tied at No. 27, even as the number of universities reviewed has expanded
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Five questions with UC Santa Cruz humanities dean Tyler Stovall
Tyler Stovall became dean of the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division in 2015. Now beginning his second full academic year as dean, we sat down with Dean Stovall to discuss the state of the humanities at UC Santa Cruz and beyond.
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Founders Celebration 2016 celebrates excellence, generosity, vision
Hundreds of revelers turned UC Santa Cruz’s Science & Engineering Library into a “collision space” of ideas during the 11th annual Founders Celebration, a time to celebrate excellence and generosity.
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Pedestrians may run rampant in a world of self-driving cars
Imagine an urban neighborhood where most of the cars drive themselves. What would it be like to be a pedestrian? Actually, pretty good, according to Adam Millard-Ball, assistant professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz. In fact, pedestrians might end up with the run of the place.
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Toxins from freshwater algae found in San Francisco Bay shellfish
Study shows toxins from freshwater algal blooms can also contaminate coastal waters and marine shellfish.
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Graduate student brings renowned photographer Pirkle Jones’s personal archive to the public
Library fellows process archives and make the content available to scholars and the public.
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UC Santa Cruz ranks among greenest universities
Coming in at No. 7, UC Santa Cruz is the highest ranked UC in The Princeton Review’s “Top 50 Green Colleges.”
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Enormous dome in central Andes driven by huge magma body beneath it
Magma injected into the crust from below has contributed to the uplift of the spectacular Altiplano-Puna plateau.