2018
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American Council on Education’s Internationalization Laboratory
We’re delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for our campus: UC Santa Cruz’s participation in the American Council on Education’s 16th Internationalization Laboratory cohort.
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Land use scenarios for input
For more than a year, we have been gathering feedback as we work on a new Long Range Development Plan. An LRDP is a land use map that designates campus land according to various uses, such as academic and housing.
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Air quality update
Smoke from the Camp Fire in Butte County continues to impact our local air quality. The Air Quality Index (AQI) continues to indicate that Santa Cruz air quality is in the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” range.
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Podcast: Founding Oakes professor draws a crowd at provost house renaming ceremony
Founding Oakes College Provost J. Herman Blake had a warm homecoming recently at UC Santa Cruz when he was the guest of honor in a ceremony rededicating the Oakes Provost House and naming it after Blake.
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Campus opens new hub for student food security, support
A new basic needs cafe at Cowell College offers free coffee, prepared meals, a juicing station and pastries—all intended to provide low income students with healthy options and alleviate stressors related to feeding themselves.
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Sad news regarding campus benefactor Will Webster
It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of the death of Will Webster, a gifted inventor whose deep generosity has helped shape modern-day UC Santa Cruz.
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Air Quality Status
Smoke from local fires and the Camp Fire in Northern California has been impacting our local air quality over the past week. At this time, the AQI indicates that Santa Cruz air quality is in the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” range.
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Student pushes for authentic representation of deaf community
Chrissy Marshall became interested in making videos about deaf culture because as a child, she saw very little representation of deaf people in the media or on YouTube.
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From chicken guts to ape anatomy: Adrienne Zihlman’s emerita lecture
Adrienne Zihlman delivered the 29th annual Emeriti Faculty Research Lecture, “The Inside Story of the Apes,” to a capacity crowd in the Music Center Recital Hall on November 13.
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Planet discovered orbiting the second closest stellar system to the Earth
Measurements from high-precision instruments, including Keck’s HIRES and Lick’s Automated Planet Finder, reveal a cold super-Earth around Barnard’s star.
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Rebecca Covarrubias of Psychology to receive early-career award
Rebecca Covarrubias, assistant professor of psychology, has been selected to receive the 2019 Latino Caucus Early Career Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.
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Entrepreneur and UC Santa Cruz benefactor Will Webster dies at 90
Webster, a major donor who invented revolutionary cardiac devices, established a foundation that spearheaded significant campus changes.