February 2024
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Continuing student housing application period closes March 4
The continuing student housing application period for 2024-25 university housing opened Monday, Feb. 26 and closes Monday, March 4. This year, the continuing student room selection process will be conducted via a lottery open to all eligible continuing students. The Room Selection Lottery will be completed across a series of passes throughout the month of…
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The UCSC Music Department presents “The World Making Aura of Sonic Blackness” with Moor Mother & James Gordon Williams
On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, the University of California, Santa Cruz Music Department presents a very special performance by guest artist Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) and James Gordon Williams, assistant professor of music composition at UC Santa Cruz in the Recital Hall of the Music Center.
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Scientists begin to crack open climate-change riddles hiding in ancient coral
An international team of researchers on an expedition co-led by UC Santa Cruz Professor Christina Ravelo collected cores of fossil coral off the coast of Hawai’i to look for signs of climate and sea-level change over the past half million years.
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Closer water monitoring needed as wildfires increase
UC Santa Cruz researchers warn that wildfires can change the chemistry of nearby streams that people and wildlife depend on for drinking water. But they found that the baseline water-chemistry data needed to detect such changes aren’t always available.
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Stranger Things VR game co-written by UCSC’s Samantha Gorman launches in partnership with Netflix, Meta
A new virtual reality (VR) game set in the world of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things launches today — and UC Santa Cruz Assistant Teaching Professor of Computational Media Samantha Gorman is a key creative mind behind it as the game’s co-writer and narrative director.
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Kimberly Lau appointed provost of College Nine and John R. Lewis College
The Division of Social Sciences has selected Literature Professor Kimberly Lau as the new provost of College Nine and John R. Lewis College.
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Annual notice on employees responsible for reporting discrimination, sexual violence or sexual harassment
To promote a healthy campus climate, we encourage everyone in our community to report incidents of sexual violence, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation to EEP.
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Planned power outage at residential campus on Sunday, February 25
UC Santa Cruz will experience a planned power outage from 7 a.m to 3 p.m on Sunday, February 25. The outage will impact most of the residential campus including all ten colleges and many upper campus facilities.
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Net wins
The UC Santa Cruz table tennis team, an informal group formed only in 2022, quickly began finding success at tournaments—but its biggest wins may be the community, friendship, and leadership skills the team has built along the way.
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Upcoming exhibition will shine a light on vibrant Filipino American life on the Central Coast
Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley will run from April 12 through August 4 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art And History in downtown Santa Cruz, highlighting the vitality, struggles, and resilience of the Central Coast’s Filipino migrant community
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UCSC student and two time scholarship recipient shares her transformative experiences
Lizeth Peña Sanchez (’24, education, democracy, and justice, Latin American and Latino studies, and sociology) received scholarships from The Institute for Social Transformation’s Transforming Futures and Building Belonging Programs. She shares how those experiences prepared her for her future goals.
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Deadline to register to vote in March primary is Feb. 20
February 20 is the deadline to update your registration online to vote in the March 5 California Primary Election.