October 2016
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Learn to grow garlic at Oct. 29 workshop
A garlic-growing workshop is set for 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the UC Santa Cruz Hay Barn.
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Initial findings to be released in study of microaggressions on campus
For the past year, UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Christy Byrd implemented a mobile app to track student experiences of microaggressions—the subtle ways assumptions and attitudes based on race, sexual orientation, or gender are communicated in everyday conversation.
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Halloween, October 31st and days prior
On behalf of the university and the City of Santa Cruz, I encourage you to avoid downtown Santa Cruz on Halloween night and instead choose to be on campus in order to participate in one or more of the many programs offered throughout our college and residential communities.
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High-tech sensors monitor ecosystems in climate change research program
UC Santa Cruz scientists lead a UC-wide consortium using the Natural Reserve System as a climate impacts laboratory.
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Voter registration and Election Day reminder
Monday, Oct. 24 is the deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 8 General Election. There are important votes for federal, state, and local candidates, as well as important initiatives on the ballot.
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Community Crime Bulletin—Community assistance leads to arrest
At approximately 09:15 a.m. today, the UC Santa Cruz Police Department responded to Merrill College after a community member reported a suspicious person to our dispatch center.
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UC Santa Cruz project wins U.S. agriculture grant to diversify food studies
A $275,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help Colleges Nine and Ten at UC Santa Cruz expand projects in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties to promote food security and food justice among predominantly Spanish-speaking, farmworker families.
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Annual social sciences research event explores politics of change
How and why politics and policy are failing minority groups was a central theme at the UC Santa Cruz Division of Social Sciences’ fourth annual research event, “Politics of Change?! The Social Sciences Take on 2016.”
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Chancellor to urge high school students to pursue higher education dreams
In support of Achieve UC, Chancellor George Blumenthal will speak to 400 Watsonville High School students to encourage them to pursue a higher education.
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Anger as a tool for change: The role of rage and hostility in politics
“A free society is a passionate society,” UC Santa Cruz politics professor Daniel Wirls observed during ‘Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald,’ the latest in the Institute for Humanities “Questions that Matter” lecture series.
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With marijuana legalization on the ballot, lessons learned from Dutch drug policy
As California and several other states vote on marijuana legalization initiatives next month, a new article by emeritus professor of sociology Craig Reinarman compares Dutch and U.S. drug policies.
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Wilder Ranch controlled burns planned
Wilder Ranch State Park is conducting a series of vegetation management burns beginning today and going through the rest of the week.