November 2018
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Summer Session team earns awards for work
UC Santa Cruz Summer Session recently won five awards at the 2018 North American Association of Summer Sessions (NAASS) conference held in Portland, Oregon.
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Ancient DNA evidence reveals genetic exchanges between the Americas
Unprecedented details about the story of the peopling of Central and South America have been revealed in a new study published in the journal Cell.
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SocDoc alumna’s film about Syrian women refugees to have world premiere at DOC NYC
We Are Not Princesses, the first feature film by UC Santa Cruz alumna Bridgette Auger (SocDoc ’11) will have its world premiere on November 14 at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the United States.
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Fire near campus near full containment
Fire officials report they have near full containment of a roughly 4-acre vegetation fire that is burning in a steep, heavily wooded area just east of campus, where Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and Santa Cruz’s Pogonip greenbelt area intersect.
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Fire in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, near campus
The UC Santa Cruz Police Department is closely monitoring a new wildland fire near the main campus. This one is in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, which is just east of campus.
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Beyond campaign rhetoric: What’s really needed to secure California’s economic future
With the world’s fifth-largest economy, California has legitimate bragging rights as it proudly leads the “resistance” to federal attacks on immigrant rights, environmental policy, and progressive values in general. But that’s not the whole story.
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Long noncoding RNA identified as a key regulator of inflammation
New findings add to growing evidence that previously dismissed “junk DNA” actually produces RNA molecules with important regulatory functions.
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SAB Staff Mentorship Program: Mentee Application Period Open
The application period is now open in order to apply to be mentee in the 2019 SAB Staff Mentorship Program. The deadline to apply is November 26th, 2018.
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Request to update directory and CruzAlert contact information
The University of California, Santa Cruz, continues to undertake efforts to log the work locations of all employees in campus Directory and CruzAlert.
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Hear the “Inside Story of the Apes” on Tuesday, Nov. 13
Adrienne Zihlman had a hunch 30 years ago that the study of human evolution would benefit from the analysis of more than skeletons. That hunch set her on a career path that established her as an internationally recognized authority on human origins.
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New website offers resources to support campus teachers
A new campus website connects faculty, graduate student Instructors, and teaching assistants with a host of resources, both on campus and off, to support their teaching.
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From asexuality to heteroflexibility: 21st century ushers in new openness about intimate relationships
The 21st century has ushered in a “quiet revolution” in the diversity of intimate relationships, and a leading scholar says the scale and pace of this social transformation warrants a “reboot” of relationship studies.