July 2019
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Zoom Video Conferencing Vulnerability on Mac Devices
Zoom has assured us that the vulnerabilities are low risk and that UCSC Zoom accounts have not been exploited.
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Elsevier Access Suspended
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January, but until now the publisher continued to allow access to 2019 articles via ScienceDirect. As of today (July 10, 2019) UC’s direct access to new Elsevier articles has been discontinued.
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Volunteers sought for United Way’s Stuff the Bus campaign
The United Way is seeking volunteers to help with its annual Stuff the Bus campaign, which distributes new backpacks and school supplies to ensure students start school ready to learn with the tools they need to succeed.
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UC Santa Cruz founding faculty member Jasper Rose dies at age 89
Jasper Rose, a founding faculty member of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a professor emeritus of art and history, died on June 12, 2019, in Bath, England, where he had lived in recent years. He was 89.
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Celebrating Primo and his remarkable life as a champion of cetacean science and conservation
On Thursday June 27, 2019 Primo’s 40-year-old heart performed its last beat. For 25 years, the rhythmic pulse of his heart was central to our cetacean biology program at the Long Marine Lab campus of UC Santa Cruz.
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Seeking help in rash of thefts
The UC Santa Cruz Police Department is seeking the community’s help in investigating a rash of thefts that began on June 30.
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McHenry Road Lane Closures
The Campus is continuing necessary construction and repairs during the summer months, implementing road closures and affecting traffic on McHenry Road.
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Plants don’t think, they grow: The case against plant consciousness
Botanist Lincoln Taiz and colleagues argue against the suggestion that plants have neurobiology or consciousness.
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Holger Schmidt receives IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award
Schmidt is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and holds the Narinder Kapany chair in Optoelectronics in the Baskin School of Engineering.
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Alumna’s film about Syrian refugees wins Audience Award for Best Feature at SF DocFest
We Are Not Princesses, the first feature film by UC Santa Cruz alumna Bridgette Auger (SocDoc ’11), was honored with the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2019 San Francisco Documentary Film Festival.
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First day on the job
I have been looking forward to this day these past few months and I am so pleased to finally begin as chancellor.