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MCD Biology launches undergraduate biomedical research initiative
Biology professor Jeremy Sanford is taking a bold new approach to the undergraduate biology lab experience.
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UC Santa Cruz ranks in top 50 of global research universities, 5th for space sciences
UC Santa Cruz ranks fifth in the world for space sciences and is one of six University of California campuses ranked among the top 50 research universities overall, according to a study by U.S. News and World Report.
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Five-day Pacific Rim Music Festival to feature historic collaboration with Korean performing artists
A dazzling array of traditional and contemporary Korean music will be performed at the 2017 Pacific Rim Music Festival, October 25-29, on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Geologist Gary Griggs publishes two new books on coastal issues
‘The Edge’ focuses on California’s unique coastline, while ‘Coasts in Crisis’ offers a global perspective on the issues facing coastal regions throughout the world.
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UC Santa Cruz to host ‘Freedom, Justice, Difference: The Merchant of Venice Now’ at museum
Since it was first performed in 1605, The Merchant of Venice, has been one of Shakespeare’s most controversial works. For the past 400 years, a debate has raged among critics and scholars over whether or not it is anti-Semitic.
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Want to save 41 percent of the planet’s highly threatened vertebrates? Work on islands
A new study has mapped the world’s most vulnerable island species and identified invasive species as a key threat to their survival.
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Social Sciences Dean Katharyne Mitchell steps in to leadership, asks others to step up, too
Two months into her new job, Social Sciences Dean Katharyne Mitchell has brought energy, focus, and vision to the division.
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Physicist Michael Dine wins Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics
A UC Santa Cruz physicist has won the Sakurai Prize for the second year in a row.
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UC Board of Regents chair visits to connect with campus community
As Board of Regents chair, George Kieffer’s goals include focusing on the quality of undergraduate education, examining the costs of higher education, preserving the university’s historic excellence in teaching, research and public service, and continuing to expand access to more…
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Cross country bolstered by new faces
Bolstered by a crop of fresh faces who have already made an impact in the early season, the Banana Slugs returned a core group from last year’s squad, which placed seventh at the NCAA West Regionals.
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European migrant crisis influenced by faith groups pursuing ‘alternative justice’
Churches and other faith-based organizations are playing a distinctive role in the European migrant crisis, according to geographer Katharyne Mitchell.
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Understanding the coevolving web of life as a network
A new study exploring how mutualistic species coevolve suggests rapid environmental change can destabilize networks of interacting species.
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First observations of merging neutron stars mark a new era in astronomy
A UC Santa Cruz team made the first ever observations of a visible event linked to the detection of gravitational waves, using the small Swope Telescope in Chile.
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Astronomer Alexie Leauthaud wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
Leauthaud is the 13th UCSC faculty member, and sixth UCSC astronomer, to receive a Packard Fellowship.
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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.
