2018
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Undergraduate builds handcrafted bee hotels to attract pollinators
Mindful that the population of European honeybees is crashing worldwide due to Colony Collapse Disorder, Environmental Studies senior Forest Peri wanted to make a welcoming home for native bees.
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Strategic academic planning: Where we are and where we’re heading
Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Marlene Tromp offers an update on academic priority areas, removing barriers, funding, and more.
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Transfer RNA research addresses a blind spot in understanding of human genes
Biomolecular engineer Todd Lowe has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his lab’s international leadership in transfer RNA research.
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‘Future Garden’ environmental art installation opens at Arboretum
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents the opening of “Future Garden for the Central Coast of California”–a site-specific environmental art installation by emeritus arts research professors Newton Harrison and his late wife Helen Mayer Harrison at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden.
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Guidance about Service and Emotional Support Animals at UCSC
We have assembled a number of resources that aim to clarify when and where service and emotional support animals are allowed on campus and answer the most common questions we receive.
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Extending comment on the Student Housing West EIR
We have decided to extend the comment period to June 27, 2018. We will hold additional information sessions in May, as well as two more public hearings, on June 6 and 7.
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Required eCourse – General Compliance Briefing
UC leadership is helping to raise our awareness of maintaining strong ethical values and the high standards of ethical conduct that are central to our Principles of Community.
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Public presentations by candidates for dean of graduate studies
Our campus is doing an internal recruitment for a vice provost and dean of graduate studies. You are invited to attend their public presentations and to provide feedback to the search committee.
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Senate meeting to focus on several important topics
The May 16 Academic Senate meeting will include discussions on student evaluations of teaching, recommendations on the Kresge College classrooms, and much more.
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Spate of violence in greater Santa Cruz area
Following a stabbing and a fatal shooting near the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, and additional incidents in the Soquel area, I want to remind members of our campus community to be aware of your surroundings.
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UC Santa Cruz collaborates with SF Academy of Arts for spring production of ‘The Magic Flute’
The UC Santa Cruz Music Department will present a fully-staged production of Mozart’s comic fantasy: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), May 31 through June 3, on campus at the Music Center Recital Hall.
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Angela Davis joins May 22 panel discussion about mass incarceration
Angela Davis will join a May 22 panel discussion about mass incarceration, solitary confinement, and criminal justice reform that is being convened by Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney.