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Migration, climate, housing among the topics featured during fifth annual UC Santa Cruz Research Frontiers Evening Oct. 26
Six UC Santa Cruz researchers who are tackling “key issues of the 21st century” will be featured during the fifth annual Division of Social Sciences Research Frontiers Evening on October 26.
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$10.5 million education grant will help UC Santa Cruz prepare students for college
The Educational Partnership Center’s “Paving a Path for a College-Going Generation” project plans to serve 1,930 at-risk, underrepresented students in the predominantly agricultural towns of Gonzales, Greenfield, Soledad, and King City.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen to speak at UC Santa Cruz on Oct. 19
On October 11, the MacArthur Foundation awarded Viet Thanh Nguyen a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship for his work as a fiction writer and cultural critic, citing his contributions to “challenging popular depictions of the Vietnam War and exploring the myriad ways…
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Paleogenomic analysis sheds light on Easter Island mysteries
New paleogenomic research conducted by an international team led by UC Santa Cruz sheds light on the early inhabitants of Easter Island.
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UC Santa Cruz to dedicate new Coastal Biology building on October 21
The newest building on UCSC’s vibrant Coastal Science Campus is now home to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
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Social Sciences honors outstanding staff, teaching, research
The Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz presented four major awards today (Wednesday, October 11), recognizing outstanding accomplishments by faculty, staff, researchers, and emeriti faculty.
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New neurocognitive theory of dreaming links dreams to mind-wandering
In his new book, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology Bill Domhoff presents an integrated neurocognitive theory of dreams that is grounded in the similarities between dreaming and drifting waking thought.
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Nearly 70 percent experience “rent burden” in Santa Cruz County, according to UC Santa Cruz survey results
Nearly 70 percent of renters surveyed in Santa Cruz County experience “rent burden,” defined as spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities, according to preliminary results of a survey of 1,700 renters across the county…
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Fall Living Writers Series explores histories of war, refuge and social justice
“Beyond the Wall: War, Refuge, and Home” is the name of this fall’s installment of the Living Writers Series at UC Santa Cruz. Curated by the campus’s award-winning author and literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita, the series runs through December…
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Chancellor to tell students UC education is attainable, affordable
As part of Achieve UC, Chancellor George Blumenthal will speak to approximately 300 Pajaro Valley High School students about pursuing higher education.
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Sound Designer and UCSC Alum Ren Klyce Makes All the Right Noises
With five Oscar nominations for film sound editing and mixing, UC Santa Cruz alumnus Ren Klyce’s career has taken a sky-rocket climb since he decided to major in music back in 1983.
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UC Santa Cruz, community colleges seek to strengthen ties
A meeting with California higher education leaders has led to seven strategies to further strengthen ties between UC Santa Cruz and community colleges.
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Games and Playable Media faculty to discuss future trends at IndieCade Festival
SceneSampler, a game from UCSC’s Social Emotional Technology Lab, is an official game selection to be demonstrated at the international festival of independent games.
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UC Santa Cruz raises more than $335 million from 63,064 donors
In the coming weeks, the campus will celebrate the success of the campaign, which concluded six months ahead of schedule and exceeded its initial goal of raising $300 million.
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Gail Project exhibition studies military occupation of Okinawa through a photographic lens
Now in its fourth year at UC Santa Cruz, The Gail Project was inspired by a collection of photographs taken in 1952 by American Army Captain, Charles Eugene Gail. “The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue” opens on campus October 5…
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UC Santa Cruz student Saloni Gupta earns Sutter scholarship for medical school
Saloni Gupta, a senior studying human biology, was awarded the annual Primary Care Physician award, a $10,000 scholarship.
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Free public talk by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, pioneer of microfinance, on Oct. 10
The public is invited to attend a free talk by microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday, October 10, in the College 9/10 Multipurpose Room at UC Santa Cruz.
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Join the fun at the Harvest Festival on Oct. 1
Celebrate the abundance of the fall harvest with live music, cooking demonstrations, tasty food, activities for kids, and tours of the UCSC Farm at the annual UC Santa Cruz Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 1, from 11 a.m. to 5…
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UC Santa Cruz music alumnus lands job as head archivist of Bob Dylan Archive
Five weeks ago, UC Santa Cruz alumnus Mark Davidson moved from Austin, Texas, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to begin a new job at the Bob Dylan Archive.
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New mirror-coating technology promises dramatic improvements in telescopes
An electrical engineer teamed up with astronomers to improve telescope mirrors using thin-film technology from the electronics industry
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Love ’em or hate ’em, robots are here to stay so let’s make them better, says psychology prof
Leila Takayama’s work focuses on improving the design and function of personal robots to make them more appealing to humans, expanding what they can do for us.
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UC Santa Cruz initiated fiber-optic project brings high-speed broadband to Central Coast communities
Installation is complete on a 91-mile fiber optic cable made possible by UC Santa Cruz that will bring reliable, speedy internet broadband to underserved communities across 430 square miles from Watsonville through the Salinas Valley to Soledad.
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Geologists to deploy vast array of seismometers along Alaska Peninsula
A team of geologists will deploy a vast array of seismometers along the Alaska Peninsula in an experiment they hope will solve long-standing mysteries.
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UC Santa Cruz ranked third worldwide for research influence
In a new analysis of the world’s top universities, UCSC ranked third in research influence as measured by the number of times its faculty’s published work is cited by scholars around the world.
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Join campus effort to support first-gen college students, campus community
With more than 42 percent of undergraduate students as the first in their generation to attend college, UC Santa Cruz launched its First Generation Initiative in spring 2016. The program, modeled after the successful, pioneering efforts of UC Irvine, now…
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UC Santa Cruz hosts international workshop for Thirty Meter Telescope
Work on TMT is in high gear at UC Santa Cruz and other partner institutions and countries around the world.
