Author: Gwen Jourdonnais
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Change on a fork
Dining Services is cooking up ways to accomplish its twin goals: serving good-tasting, locally sourced, sustainably grown organic food-and aiming for zero waste.
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Serving sustainability
UCSC Dining Services has taken many steps over the past five years to increase sustainability.
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Student Brittany Guest is a special kind of coach
Brittany Guest, a fifth-year health sciences student, directs the Special Olympics program for the Santa Cruz area.
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Career Center ready to help Slugs of any age
Alumni–whether unemployed or just seeking a career change–might not know that the campus Career Center is a resource that’s available to them.
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Dedicated marine mammal volunteers save oiled otter
When a young sea otter was found on the beach covered with tar balls and slick oil, volunteers with the Marine Mammal Physiology Project sprang into action.
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Richards, Cabrera, Rickford win Alumni Association top honors
The common thread running through the Alumni Association’s top award winners for 2008-09 is their exceptional ability to inspire.
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Lamb is a lioness when it comes to soccer
Women’s soccer player Annick Lamb has received a 2009 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
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Campus repeats Recyclemania
UC Santa Cruz has entered the annual recycling contest Recyclemania for the second time, and organizers are hoping they can improve the campus’s ranking compared with last year.
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Dining Services’ chowder-cooking team bowls over judges
Dining Services’ Redwood Sluggers team took third place for their Manhattan clam chowder at the recent 28th Annual Clam Chowder Cook-Off at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
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Earth Summit celebrates progress, cultivates ideas
Thursday’s eighth annual Earth Summit advanced a dialogue among students, faculty, staff, administration, and the Santa Cruz community regarding the campus’s commitment to sustainability.
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Renewable energy projects are in the works on campus
This year, the campus is embarking on two pilot green-power projects: installing solar panels on the West Field House Gym and increasing the efficiency of the campus pool’s heating system.
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Van Jones: Green jobs can save the Earth and stamp out poverty
To conquer global warming, the United States must also conquer poverty, as well as fundamentally change Americans’ behavior. That was the message delivered by guest speaker Van Jones at the 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation Thursday