2024
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UC Santa Cruz adopts Okanagan Charter, centering campus community health and well-being
UC Santa Cruz has adopted the Okanagan Charter, joining nearly 30 institutions to promote campus-wide health and well-being. The initiative focuses on belonging, resilience, and sustainability, fostering positive change across the campus community.
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UC Santa Cruz Alumni Engagement team wins CASE award
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) awarded the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Alumni Engagement Office with a Bronze Circle of Excellence Award for a video honoring alumna bell hooks (Ph.D. ’83, literature). The video was created in partnership with University Advancement colleagues.
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Welcome to Fall Quarter, Banana Slugs!
Dean of Students Garrett Naiman offers a welcome message to start the 2024-25 academic year.
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New initiatives to strengthen campus climate, combat hate
With funding from the UC Office of the President, UC Santa Cruz will be offering additional mental health resources, community-building events, educational programming, professional development, and opportunities to share feedback to improve its campus climate.
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$1M NSF grant expands open source software mentorship program for HBCU students
A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will expand a program that enables students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to gain coding experience and receive intensive mentorship in open source programming.
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Leading by listening: Marianas Fernandez’s journey to becoming a student leader
UCSC student Marianas Fernandez excels in academics, activism, and athletics, earning recognition and awards for her leadership and contributions.
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2024 Arts Division Convocation honors Eduardo and Alison Carrillo
The annual Arts Division Convocation brings together the community to celebrate the new school year. The Distinguished Banana Slug Awards in the Arts is given every year to an honoree who exemplifies excellence and a dedication to the Arts Division. This year’s recipients are (posthumously) former professor Eduardo Carrillo, and his wife Alison Keeler Carrillo.
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Famed economist and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz speaks out against right-wing notions of economic freedom
On Tuesday night, famed progressive economist Joseph Stiglitz drew a large and enthusiastic crowd to downtown Santa Cruz, where he took aim at neoliberal economics and called for more equitable alternatives. The event was co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
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Center for Archival Research and Training celebrates 10 years of success
This October, the University Library at UC Santa Cruz Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) marks its 10th anniversary, celebrating a decade of shaping graduate students’ careers through hands-on archival experience.
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Celebrating and observing the Jewish High Holy Days
As we welcome the beginning of the academic year, Jewish members of our community will also be ushering in the Jewish new year as they celebrate and observe the High Holy Days.
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UC Santa Cruz astronomer delivers keynote speech for Mexico’s National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies
The council chose Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz as the final speaker in the series, which leads up to the inauguration of Mexico’s new president on October 1, in honor of his distinguished career and accomplishments that followed his public education and training in Mexico.