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New program helps humanities grad students consider work in the public sphere
From a Holocaust study center in Norway and a small environmental center in northern Alaska, to the Japanese American Museum in San Jose and the Santa Cruz County jail, humanities Ph.D. students expanded their horizons this year thanks to a…
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UC Santa Cruz Community Sailing Club takes best in show for third straight year
The UC Santa Cruz Community Sailing Club captured Best in Show at the Santa Cruz Lighted Boat Parade Dec. 3. The parade has been a regular event at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor for decades. UCSC has won best…
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Campus inventors recognized for recent patents
The Office of Research is working to bolster patent activities and services for technology transfer, part of an effort to help faculty, students and staff commercialize inventions and discoveries.
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UC Santa Cruz team chosen to compete in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Challenge
UCSC computer scientists have won a sponsorship from Amazon to develop a “socialbot” that can converse with humans.
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Alumna Kate Schatz pens second NY Times bestseller with ‘Rad Women Worldwide’
Rad Women Worldwide, the follow-up to UC Santa Cruz alumna Kate Schatz’s New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z, is a showcase of extraordinary women from 31 countries around the world.
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Students make gains in math placement, thanks to online adaptive learning
A pilot program in online adaptive learning at UC Santa Cruz has led to higher placement in math courses for newly admitted freshman students.`
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Campus to renew Kresge College
Since February, a diverse committee of staff, faculty, and students has worked with a team led by Studio Gang Architects to explore prospects for a renewal of Kresge College’s complex and aging physical space.
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Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization and DDT’s slow decay
Rising temperatures due to climate change were found to have less influence on mosquito populations than land use changes and the decay of residual DDT in the environment.
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Some bats develop resistance to devastating fungal disease
White-nose syndrome has decimated the little brown bat, but researchers found populations that appear to have developed resistance to the disease.
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Phi Beta Kappa celebrates 30 years on campus
The UC Santa Cruz chapter of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa will celebrate its 30th anniversary from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Friday at the Merrill Provost House.
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UC Santa Cruz biologist Harry Noller wins $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
From antibiotics to the origins of life, Noller’s findings on the protein factories of all cells have broad implications.
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Campus receives $440,000 grant to study sustainable practices for urban agriculture
Environmental studies professor Stacy Philpott will lead a research team to explore biodiversity, sustainability, and ecosystem services in urban agricultural landscapes.
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UC Catalyst award furthers paleogenomics research
By analyzing DNA from ancient humans, pathogens and other genomes, the UC Santa Cruz Human Paleogenomics Lab looks to understand how the twin forces of culture and biology have shaped human genomic diversity, demography, and health.
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Students shed new light on slavery by mixing archaeological data with historical records
Using a blend of data, history, and archaeology, UC Santa Cruz undergraduates have explored what life as a slave was like on plantations in the American South. They shared their research findings in an interactive poster session this week.
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Title IX office adds investigators, plans campaign to raise awareness of domestic and dating violence
When Tracey Tsugawa arrived at UC Santa Cruz in August 2014 she was more than simply the new campus Title IX Officer. She was the entire Title IX office. Today, Tsugawa and a staff of four handle a growing number…
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Two admissions office veterans top 71 years
Michael McCawley and David Kamimoto in the UC Santa Cruz admissions office have helped students and families for 71 years.
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Feminist studies professor Karen Barad receives multiple honors in Europe
Karen Barad–professor of feminist studies, philosophy, and history of consciousness at UC Santa Cruz–also happens to have a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory…
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Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt elected IEEE Fellow
Schmidt, the Kapany Professor of Optoelectronics, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Structure of human astrovirus could lead to antiviral therapies, vaccines
Research led by structural biologist Rebecca DuBois is laying the foundation for new antiviral therapies and vaccines for human astroviruses.
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Campus community gathers to reaffirm values
Roughly 200 people stood in Quarry Plaza to listen to campus leaders talk about the thoughts and feelings expressed by many students in the last week.
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Chemistry professor Pradip Mascharak receives Outstanding Faculty Award
Mascharak received the 2016 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.
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Caring for our animal friends
The student-run Pre-Veterinary Club is designed to support and energize those who want a career working with animals.
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Restorative justice and civil rights leader Fania Davis to give Baskin Ethics Lecture
Fania Davis, co-founder and executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, will deliver the 2016 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture on Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Music Center Recital Hall.
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Astronomer Sandra Faber awarded California Academy of Sciences Fellows Medal
The California Academy of Sciences has awarded its highest honor, the Fellows Medal, to Sandra Faber, professor emerita of astronomy and astrophysics, and elected professors Karen Holl and Erika Zavaleta as new Academy Fellows.
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Students to pitch viable ideas for positive environmental change
The first Startup Weekend Santa Cruz for Sustainable Solutions & Social Impact, Nov. 18–20, is just one of more than 200 events happening in November as part of Global Startup Weekend.
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New initiative launches with $1 million Koret Undergraduate Research Scholarships
Applications for the $1,500 undergraduate research scholarships are now open until Nov. 30. Fifty scholarships will be awarded to students in any discipline.
