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Need for speed may contribute to dolphin and whale strandings
The energetic cost of swimming at high speed when startled may be a factor in strandings of dolphins and whales.
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Lick Observatory offers new Public Evening Tours of telescopes in 2017
Growing demand has led to expanded opportunities for the public to see and view through the observatory’s telescopes.
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Graduate applications hit new high
The Office of Graduate Studies has received 4,744 applications for the 2017-18 academic year. In the last five years, the campus has marked a 36 percent increase in the number of applications.
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UC Santa Cruz named one of the country’s best colleges for undergraduate film majors
UC Santa Cruz is featured in a Top 10 list of Best Bachelor’s Program for Film, Video and Photographic Arts along with USC, NYU, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Rhode Island School of Design.
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Alumni Weekend keynote to feature co-chair of Women’s March on Washington
Alumna Carmen Perez, longtime community organizer, activist, and a national co-chair of one of the largest demonstrations in history, will speak on the role and importance of protest with a purpose.
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Flowering times shift with loss of species from a grassland ecosystem
Loss of biodiversity may exacerbate changes in the timing of biological events already being driven by climate change, study finds.
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Study shows how river channels adjust to large sediment supplies
New findings undermine a common assumption about gravel-bedded river channels.
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Reef madness: A coral grows at UC Santa Cruz
Hundreds of students and community members are contributing their handiwork to the Crochet Coral Reef, a massive participatory art project that combines higher geometry with handicraft while calling attention to the disappearing wonders of the marine world.
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Study supports increased funding for long-term ecological research
Despite critical importance to scientists and policymakers, funding for long-term ecological and environmental studies has declined while funding for short-term studies has increased.
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Restorative justice circle to foster dialogue around sexual violence/sexual harassment
The session, part of the campus’s Beyond Compliance initiative, will be from 7–9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15 at the Namaste Lounge in Colleges 9/10.
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Film professor Shelley Stamp wins 2017 international media and history book prize
Film and digital media professor Shelley Stamp has been named the recipient of the 2017 Michael Nelson Book Prize, presented by the International Association for Media and History for her latest book, “Lois Weber in Early Hollywood.”
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Astronomer Ruth Murray-Clay appointed to chair in theoretical astrophysics
Investiture ceremony honors Murray-Clay as the inaugural holder of the E. K. Gunderson Family Chair in Theoretical Astrophysics
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Dean Paul Koch receives ‘Insight Into Diversity’ magazine’s Giving Back Award
National award honors university administrators for their commitment to diversity and for giving back to others
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Gift from Narinder Kapany will establish Sikh book collection and study room at McHenry Library
UC Santa Cruz has received a gift from Dr. Narinder Kapany to establish the Sundar Singh Kapany Book Collection and the Sundar Singh Kapany Group Study Room in the University Library.
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With more than 100 featured projects, UC Santa Cruz hosts Giving Day 2017
The website site will go live at 12:01 a.m. on March 8 for donors to make gifts and track their favorite projects in real-time. Giving Day 2017 builds on the success of last year’s event, when nearly 3,000 donors came…
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Campaign for UC Santa Cruz enters home stretch
The campaign is the university’s first campuswide effort to build a culture of giving in support of students, faculty, and campus programs. Launched in 2009 and publicly announced in fall 2013, the campaign has raised $311 million in gifts.
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Vast luminous nebula poses a cosmic mystery
Glowing nebula appears to be part of the cosmic web of filaments connecting galaxies, but what’s lighting it up?
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Men’s volleyball ranks No. 2 in division
Each week committees from around the country in each division study the week’s match ups to determine the best teams.
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UCSC biomolecular engineer Russ Corbett-Detig wins Sloan Research Fellowship
Corbett-Detig studies evolution and genetic diversity in species ranging from fruit flies to humans.
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Curating the African American and Holocaust museums in a post-fact world
UC Santa Cruz will present a free public discussion about building museums, engaging the public, and how to represent difficult memories on Feb. 22 at Kresge Town Hall.
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Oscar nominee ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ to screen with panel discussion at Del Mar Theater
UC Santa Cruz will present a film screening of “I Am Not Your Negro”–an award-winning documentary on the life and work of writer James Baldwin, followed by a panel discussion, Feb. 21, at the Del Mar Theater
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UC Santa Cruz receives $191,000 grant to benefit grad students in humanities, arts, social sciences
UC Santa Cruz is one of five universities nationwide selected by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to be part of its new University Initiative program.
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Diversity, inclusivity key to a growing economy
The face of small business is shifting. From 2007–2012, Latino-owned businesses in the U.S. grew by 34.5 percent and African American-owned enterprises grew by 46.3 percent. A quarter of all new businesses were started by immigrants.
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Donation by rugby alumnus lights up Lower East Field
The lights turned on this month, thanks to a generous donation by rugby alumnus George Kraw (1971), who played mostly “lock” and “break-away” on the first rugby team in 1967.
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Hummingbird Day at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum is Saturday, March 4
Hummingbird Day is a family-oriented event celebrating one of nature’s vibrant aerial acrobats, the hummingbird.
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GameSpace offers a playable visualization of 16,000 videogames
UCSC researchers developed the game as a tool to help people find information about videogames.
