Author: Public Affairs
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National Cyber Security Awareness Month: Use strong passwords
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month This is the perfect time to change passwords that don’t meet UCSC’s Password Standards. Passwords are an important part of computer security at UCSC. They often serve as the first line of defense in preventing unauthorized access to campus computers and data. Because of this, it is important…
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What I’m Hearing From Students This Quarter
Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway responds to three primary concerns she’s hearing from students this quarter.
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Arguing for a ‘new humanism’ in medicine
While a new era is dawning for personalized medicine, Abraham Verghese is on a crusade to bring back the lost art of hands-on medical practice.
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UCSC in the News
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in an Atlantic magazine story about the Kepler mission and the search for Earth-like planets, and exoplanet research by Laughlin and graduate student Kevin Shlaufman was covered in Science News, Astrobiology, and Space Daily.
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Flu Shot Clinics on Campus – Students
Seasonal Flu shots will once again be offered to students at the Student Health Center located across from the University Center and Colleges 9 & 10 on McLaughlin Drive.
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Seasonal Flu Shot Clinics on Campus – Staff
Seasonal Flu shots will once again be offered to staff and faculty at the Student Health Center located across from the University Center and Colleges 9 & 10 on McLaughlin Drive.
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From the chancellor
Great and important things are happening at UC SantaCruz. I hope as you read this magazine you’ll feel a burstof pride, as I do. In addition to the groundbreaking cancer research taking place here and the many other programs and people of note detailed in these pages, I want to point outjust a few more…
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From the editor
I idolized my Uncle Gary. He was funny, smart, and handsome, and he took us kids horseback riding and fishing. He was a pioneer in veterinary echocardiography at Cornell University, where he was a professor of veterinary medicine. A brain tumor took his life at 39, when I was just 11. In quiet moments, I…
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Sammy the Slug prevails: It was 25 years ago
It’s hard to remember that UCSC’s mascot, the Banana Slug, was once subversive. For the Banana Slug’s earliest fans, rallying behind the mollusk was a mischievous gesture, a thumb in the eye of the status quo. These days, 25 years after it became the campus’s official mascot, Sammy the Slug could not be more accepted…
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Hot dates
Join us for these signature events Founders Celebration 2011 October 21, 2011 Founders Day Gala Dinner Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz Scholarship Benefit Dinner February 25, 2012 Fairmont Hotel, San Jose Reunion Weekend April 27–29, 2012 Campus