Author: Dan White
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Student Achievement Week: recognizing excellence
UC Santa Cruz will honor a long list of outstanding scholars, visual artists, performers and researchers during the annual Student Achievement Week festivities from May 28 to June 3. This week allows these students to present their work in highly public settings, from an annual print sale to a sciences and engineering poster symposium.
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Business Design Competition: high-tech test-grading system designers win top prize
UCSC engineering graduate student Paul Abumov and McMaster University astrophysics graduate Nicolas Petitclerc won the top spot at this year’s Business Design Competition. A patent is pending for their innovative, high-tech test-grading system.
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Student-run Carbon Fund boosts green projects on and off campus
The Carbon Fund Committee has selected nine green-minded projects for funding, ranging from a “green Wharf” project to a regional water use reduction campaign.
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Two-wheel commuters take to the road on Bike to Work Day
Participants in Thursday’s Bike To Work celebration ranged from teenagers to AARP members. They took part in an annual event that promotes healthy living, diminishes stress, and cuts down on auto emissions.
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Recognizing commitment: picnic highlights staff achievements
A large and appreciative crowd of staff members ate marinated chicken, vied for raffle prizes, and danced to a cheeky song by Cee Lo Green during the annual UCSC Staff Appreciation Barbecue on the East Field.
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Clarity and vision: scholars impress judges at Graduate Research Symposium
The 7th annual Graduate Research Symposium on Friday, May 6, gave graduate students a chance to show off their projects and highlight their far-ranging achievements.
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Keeping score: solar-powered “green” scoreboard is the first of its kind in campus history
Wells Fargo Bank is donating the first permanent outer playing field scoreboard in the campus’s history. The scoreboard will be solar-powered.
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Princeton Review honors UCSC’s history of sustainability
The Princeton Review has given the campus a prominent, detailed and highly complimentary entry in a brand-new guidebook that profiles eco-friendly North American colleges and universities.
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More “green” recognition for health center
UC Santa Cruz continues to earn recognition and honors for the newly completed “green” renovation of the Cowell Student Health Center. Previously, the building earned the campus its first “Gold” certification from LEED [Leadership and Environmental Energy Development], a non-profit trade organization that promotes sustainability in the design, construction and daily operation of buildings. That…
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Senior Slugs pay it forward with student-to-student philanthropy project
This year, 21 UCSC seniors are asking classmates to help fellow undergraduates pay for their education. Council members hope to inspire 15 percent of their class to contribute, and expect to raise about $10,000 for the Class of 2012.
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Brain farm
UCSC’s fertile environment has nurtured an impressive crop of creative projects and thinkers.
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Beyond Earth Day: UC Santa Cruz students launch Earth Week 2011
Earth Week is one of the most far-ranging and ambitious student-run sustainability events in UCSC history, with a Campus Earth Summit, lagoon clean-up, climbing wall and much more.