2019
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2019 SAB Thumbs Up Awards
Do you know a staff member who goes above and beyond to help the university, their colleagues, students, staff & faculty? The UC Santa Cruz Staff Advisory Board is pleased to announce the 2019 Thumbs Up Awards.
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Planned power outage on June 22 and Dec. 26-30
UC Santa Cruz will have a planned power outage from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on June 22 as part of the solar parking canopy project in the East Remove Parking Lot. A list of the different impacts on campus buildings is below.
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2017 North Korean nuclear test was order of magnitude larger than previous tests
A new assessment of the explosion’s size was led by UC Santa Cruz seismologist Thorne Lay and undergraduate researcher Dimitri Voytan.
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Library awarded grant to digitize 670 tapes from Cabrillo Music Festival
UC Santa Cruz has received a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources to digitize 670 audio recordings featuring a wide variety of works performed at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music from 1964 to 1990.
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History professor Marc Matera named 2019 ACLS Fellow
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of history Marc Matera has been named a 2019 ACLS Fellow by the The American Council of Learned Societies.
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Meet our next chancellor on Friday, June 7
I am delighted to announce that an open house with our next chancellor, Cynthia Larive, is set for Friday, June 7, on the Quarry Amphitheater stage.
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Alumni Excursion: Sea change, up close and personal
A curated trip called “The Effects of Climate Change on Marine Life” offered attendees a detailed look into how UC Santa Cruz researchers are contributing to the discussion of climate change and its direct impact on marine ecosystems.
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Seismologist Emily Brodsky receives multiple honors from professional societies
The American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America are both recognizing Brodsky for her scientific contributions.
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Campus investigating allegations of misconduct
Recently, serious and troubling allegations of misconduct against a professor in the Baskin School of Engineering have resurfaced online.
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Undergraduate Education seeks part-time administrators: Porter College and Stevenson College Provosts
In 2019-20, the Division of Undergraduate Education is undertaking searches for the following part-time faculty administrator positions:
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Study reveals structure of a ‘master switch’ controlling cell division
Understanding the structure of the FoxM1 protein and how it works could guide development of new cancer-fighting drugs.
