2019
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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.
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UC Santa Cruz establishes interdisciplinary Southeast Asia research center
A $1 million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation will establish a new Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) at UC Santa Cruz that will bring together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences to address the region’s challenges.
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Ochoa appointed interim provost of Oakes College
The Division of Undergraduate Education announced the appointment of Marcia Ochoa as Oakes College interim provost, effective July 1. Ochoa is an anthropologist who specializes in the ethnography of media. Ochoa’s first book was on the accomplishment of femininity among beauty pageant contestants (misses) and transgender women (transformistas) in Venezuela. Ochoa’s work focuses on the…
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Students chowing down tuna in dining halls are unaware of mercury exposure risks
Survey reveals most students are not aware that eating large amounts of tuna exposes them to neurotoxic mercury, and some are consuming more than recommended.
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UC Santa Cruz among the world’s best in two new global rankings
UC Santa Cruz and other UC campuses were named among the world’s best universities in two separate rankings this week.
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Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst
In a world first, an international team of astronomers has determined the precise location of a powerful one-off burst of cosmic radio waves known as a fast radio burst.
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The honor of a lifetime
As I approach my last day as chancellor, I want you to know I am not heading out to pasture. On Aug. 1, I begin a new part-time role as faculty director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley.
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Imminent change to Elsevier access
The University of California has been out of contract with Elsevier since January but, so far, the publisher has continued to provide access to new articles via ScienceDirect.