Author: Public Affairs

  • Your computer is turning green

    Information Technology Services will be activating energy savings on 3,000 campus computers this summer.

  • UCSC in the News

    The June 29 public opening of UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive and the launch of the online web site has generated widespread and extensive media coverage, including stories in the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Herald, and many other media outlets.

  • Traffic delays along McLaughlin Drive

    Construction crews are expected to begin major roadway repair work Monday July 2, on McLaughlin Drive between the bridge east of Science Hill and the 20mph curve east of Stevenson College.

  • Annual permits expire Saturday, June 30th

    If you have an annual 2011-12 parking permit or Faculty/Staff Metro bus pass, please know that they will expire this Saturday, June 30th.

  • 2012 Thumbs Up Award – Deadline extended

    The nomination period has been extended to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 29

  • UCSC in the News

    Expert testimony by psychology professor Craig Haney at a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on solitary confinement was covered by NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, Kansas City Star, Charlotte Observer, and Miami Herald, and Mother Jones magazine. The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News also carried stories about it.

  • Graduate students offer free lecture on Alaska wilderness and predators

    Graduate students offer free lecture on Alaska wilderness and predators

    UC Santa Cruz wildlife biologists Yiwei Wang and Rachel Wheat will hold a free public lecture on Alaskan wildlife and the importance of salmon to the Alaskan ecosystem, Monday, June 25th from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the UCSC Arboretum.

  • In Memoriam – David Keith

    David Keith, a TAPS shuttle driver since 2003, passed away Sunday, June 10, from congenital heart failure.

  • Update: Summer 2012 Orientation Dates

    Starting July 17, over 4,700 new UC Santa Cruz students and over 3,000 family members will be on our campus for Summer Orientation.

  • Free poetry reading and music at Alan Chadwick Garden, Saturday, June 23

    Saturday, June 23, from noon until 2 p.m., a bevy of award-winning poets will read their work at “A Garden of Poetry and Music,” with piano music and vocals by Colin and Sheila Hannon in the historic Alan Chadwick Garden.

  • UCSC in the News

    Prom Week, a game about social relationships developed by faculty and students at the Center for Games and Playable Media, was featured in coverage of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), including reviews from Wired (“among the most entertaining and innovative things I’ve yet seen at E3”), IndieGames, and VideoGameInfo, as well as a feature story…

  • Seymour Center’s Whale of an Auction – Saturday June 23

    Seymour Center’s Whale of an Auction – Saturday June 23

    This benefit event supports the education programs of the Seymour Marine Discovery Center.

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