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  • UC Santa Cruz awards $20,000 scholarships to 11 community college transfer students

    The University of California, Santa Cruz, is pleased to award scholarships to 11 dedicated community college transfer students who will enroll at UCSC this fall as recipients of Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Awards.

  • Scientists reconstruct prehistoric behavior and ecology of northern fur seals

    Scientists reconstruct prehistoric behavior and ecology of northern fur seals

    A team of researchers has documented major changes in the behavior, ecology, and geographic range of the northern fur seal over the past 1,500 years using a combination of techniques from archaeology, biochemistry, and ecology.

  • UC Santa Cruz New Teacher Center expands partnership with East Palo Alto school district

    A once-troubled school district in East Palo Alto is on the upswing, thanks to a partnership with the UCSC New Teacher Center and the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

  • Winners of Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity announced

    Two professors, two staff members, and the Center for the Mathematics Education of Latino/as have been selected as winners of the 2007 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity.

  • Two UCSC students win award from CITRIS

    Two undergraduates have won a top award from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). The CITRIS White Paper Competition 2007 was organized by Tom Kalil, special assistant to the chancellor for science and technology at UC Berkeley, to tap the creativity of UC students who want to help translate…

  • Daniel Press named first holder of Griswold endowed chair

    Daniel Press named first holder of Griswold endowed chair

    Daniel Press, professor and chair of environmental studies, has been named the inaugural holder of the Olga T. Griswold Chair in Environmental Studies. Established by a gift of $350,000 from Craig Griswold in honor of his mother, Olga, the endowed chair was funded to support the work of an environmental studies professor whose interests focus…

  • Heather Bullock named director of CJTC

    Heather Bullock named director of CJTC

    Heather Bullock, an associate professor of psychology, will assume leadership of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community on July 1. Bullock will succeed founding director Manuel Pastor, a professor of Latin American and Latino studies. “I’m eager to honor and continue the great traditions Manuel started and to deepen and expand the center’s relationships…

  • UCSC team gives invited tech talk at Google

    Being invited to give a “tech talk” at Google is akin to giving a concert at Carnegie Hall, so Associate Professor Ben Crow of sociology and Professor Suresh Lodha of computer science were honored to take a team of students over the hill May 2 to present the UC Atlas of Global Inequality. Graduate students…

  • Campus invited to Cantú Memorial Colloquium May 18

    The campus community is invited to attend the 5th annual Lionel Cantú Memorial Colloquium at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 18, at the Baobab Lounge at Merrill College. A reception hosted by the Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center will follow immediately. This year’s featured guest is Angel David Nieves, assistant professor in the historic preservation…

  • Psychology professor Aida Hurtado receives gender equity award

    Psychology professor Aida Hurtado receives gender equity award

    Aida Hurtado, professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received the 2007 Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

  • UC Santa Cruz research team sheds light on diet of early human ancestors

    UC Santa Cruz research team sheds light on diet of early human ancestors

    The diet of early human ancestors probably included bulbs and rhizomes, according to researchers at UC Santa Cruz who have shed new light on a conundrum that has puzzled anthropologists for eight years.

  • Art meets science in campus Earth Day mural project

    Art meets science in campus Earth Day mural project

    Ten UCSC art students spent Earth Day weekend creating a mural project at the Thimann Laboratories Greenhouse. The project was organized by Christine Bors, a senior art student and the educational outreach coordinator for the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. “We had a team of volunteers painting a nature and scientific-themed mural to welcome the…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025