2025
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Building for the future: New child care center to open in spring 2026
With construction nearing completion, the new UC Santa Cruz Early Education Center is on track to welcome its firt families soon.
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Basic virology research important for childhood health to continue with new NIH funding
The Cortez Lab at UC Santa Cruz studies mucosal microbiology and immunology, with research focused on astroviruses
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Fall 2025 Move-In: Parking and traffic impacts for Sept. 18–21
Fall 2025 Move-In welcomes students back September 18–21, with temporary parking and traffic changes to support a smooth transition.
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UC Santa Cruz awarded forest health grant to advance regional wildfire resilience
The grant will support large-scale vegetation management to reduce wildfire risk, improve forest health, and promote restoration of sensitive habitats
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UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association announces 2025 UCSC Alumni Awards recipients
Barry J. Bowman, Terri McCullough, Daniel (Nane) Alejandrez, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Aviv Elor are the recipients of the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Alumni Awards.
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Federal science agency funding fuels big breakthroughs at UC Santa Cruz
Funding from federal science agencies generates major results at UC Santa Cruz. Contact your members of Congress to let them know you support reinvesting in the federal science agencies that help make innovation possible.
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PG&E power outage on campus Sunday, September 7
The outage will impact most of the residential campus, including all ten colleges and many upper campus facilities.
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UC Santa Cruz to help launch first-of-its-kind air mobility test ecosystem on the Central Coast
The test ecosystem for Advanced Air Mobility aircraft along the Central Coast will support innovation and create quality jobs.
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Grants expand UC Santa Cruz-led drone workforce development programs for Californians
Nearly $3 million in regional and state-wide grants will fund the ‘Drones Uplifting California Communities’ program, serving high schoolers, college students, and the ag tech industry.
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DESI collaboration to receive 2026 Berkeley Prize from AAS
The American Astronomical Society award recognizes the potentially paradigm-shifting work of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration
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Become a CUIP host site for 2026–27: Applications now open
Apply by Oct. 24 to host a CUIP intern in 2026–27 and support student leadership at UC Santa Cruz.
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Bargaining Update (September 2025)
I am forwarding UC System Provost and Executive Vice President Katherine S. Newman’s most recent bargaining update, summaring the progress made in the August bargaining sessions.