2016
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Student-made videos focus on sexual assault awareness, reporting options
The five videos, sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Police Department, will debut at 7 p.m., April 27 at the Stevenson Event Center.
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Update on last week’s activity
The UC Santa Cruz Police Department was focused on three objectives: keeping the peace, caretaking the community, and enforcing the law in a reasonable and appropriate manner.
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Percolating ideas
Grad student Sarah Beganskas is studying what could become part of the solution to California’s water crisis: collecting storm runoff so it can seep into the ground instead of being diverted to rivers and seas.
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UCSC student entrepreneurs headed for major international trade show
Developers of a robotic camera system will join the UC delegation to the Hannover Messe, the world’s biggest industrial fair.
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Astronomer Jonathan Fortney prepares for Cassini mission’s grand finale
NASA has tapped Fortney to support the final act of its Cassini mission and serve on a science team starting to plan for a potential future mission to Uranus or Neptune.
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Art students contribute work to de Young Museum’s New Generations Student Showcase
The work of three UC Santa Cruz undergraduate art majors will appear in the de Young Museum’s 20th annual New Generations Student Showcase.
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UCSC Farm & Garden’s annual spring plant sale takes place April 30 and May 1
With winter rains and April showers greening yards and moistening garden beds, the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden’s spring plant sale comes at the perfect time.
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Enthusiasm, excitement for discovery drives Grad Slam winner
Planetary science student Michael Nayak has opened up new fields of study and planetary data analysis.
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UCSC politics professor Mark Massoud wins Carnegie Fellowship
Mark Fathi Massoud, associate professor of politics and legal studies at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. The award, from the Carnegie Corp. of New York, supports high-caliber scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.
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History professor Peter Kenez honored with top UC award for emeriti faculty
The 2016 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring emeriti professors in the University of California system, has been awarded to UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus of history Peter Kenez.
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Why understanding racism needs a feminist analysis
In a new book, Sylvanna M. Falcón, assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz, takes on the world’s largest political and humanitarian organization: the United Nations.