May 2022
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Motorcyclists to ride through campus on Sunday to raise money for cancer research
The ride will begin at Porter and Kresge colleges and make its way through campus before ending in downtown Santa Cruz.
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Vote in California’s primary election
Tuesday, June 7 is Election Day in California for the primary elections.
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Slug Crossing Faculty & Staff Cheering Section
Please join us at Slug Crossing to cheer on the graduates!
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Rejecting hate, violence, and intolerance
Our hearts go out to the Buffalo community, to the victims and their families, and to our campus community who mourn this weekend’s senseless tragedy.
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Talk by NASA astronauts canceled
Due to unforeseen circumstances and mission priorities at NASA, the astronauts will not be able to travel to Santa Cruz next week. The planned events on campus have been postponed indefinitely.
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Large Hadron Collider restarts after major upgrades
UC Santa Cruz physicists have been at the forefront of U.S. participation in the LHC and contributed to a major upgrade of the ATLAS detector during the shutdown.
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A new class in the Arts Division aims to broaden students’ understanding of careers in the creative economy
Careers in the Creative Economy, a first-time course in the UC Santa Cruz Division of the Arts, has been introducing students to a wide array of professionals in creative fields to help them explore and prepare for arts careers.
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Grant funding will augment calculus courses to support engineering students’ success
A seed grant from the state-funded California Learning Lab will be used to help address the equity gap in calculus courses and increase retention for engineering students at UC Santa Cruz.
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Former UCSC Chancellor Karl S. Pister dies at age 96
Former UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Karl S. Pister, who devoted more than 70 years to the University of California, to higher education, and to expanding educational opportunities for students from kindergarten to graduate school, died on Saturday, May 14, at his home in Walnut Creek.
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Increased patrols while investigation continues into possible threats of violence this weekend
The UC Santa Cruz Police Department has increased patrols this weekend in an abundance of care and caution while officers continue to investigate threats of violence made on social media postings and by someone loudly shouting at 1:52 a.m. Thursday in the lower quad at Stevenson College.
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Applications open for UC Santa Cruz 2022-2023 Global Food Initiative student fellowship
The University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for a student fellowship opportunity with the University of California Global Food Initiative (UC GFI). This fellowship will support the contributions of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students to work with campus faculty and staff on core objective areas of Global Food Initiative that our campus co-leads. These…
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Investigating possible threats of violence this weekend
UC Santa Cruz community members are urged to immediately share any information related to threats of violence made on social media postings and by someone loudly shouting at 1:52 a.m. Thursday in the lower quad at Stevenson College. The threats referenced possible violence this weekend.