Campus Communications
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Second Harvest Food Bank & UCSC Holiday Food Drive
As difficult economic times continue to challenge our community, the need to feed our hungry neighbors is greater than ever. The UCSC Academic Senate and Staff Advisory Board invite you to join us again this year in donating cash and non-perishable food to the Second Harvest Food Bank during the annual holiday food drive to…
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XpressIt! moving December 11
Print Service’s XpressIt! store will be moving from its Bay Tree bookstore location to our print production facility in Baskin Engineering. By housing all of our expertise and production capabilities in one location, we will be able to better serve the UCSC community. Our service capabilities will immediately expand with the introduction of a new…
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Upcoming disaster response training class
The University Fire Department is holding a Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) training class for staff and faculty. CERT is a national standard for citizen response which will provide participants with the following skills: . Recognition of safety hazards . Disaster response organizational structure . Disaster communications . Disaster response planning . Disaster response management…
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Exceptions to Campus Closure 2009-2010
As in the past, the UCSC campus will close during the holiday season in an effort to conserve energy at a time when the university business is generally slow. This year the campus will be closed from Saturday, December 19, 2009 through Friday, January 1, 2010, re-opening on Monday, January 4, 2010. The campus community…
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University Associates-Silicon Valley selects master-developer team
University Associates-Silicon Valley has selected TMG Partners and the Related Companies as the master-developer team for a 77-acre sustainable community for education and research at NASA Research Park.
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Campus Elections – Mandatory Orientation for Student Fee Referendum and Opinion Polls
Please mark your calendars for the upcoming orientations for those interested in authoring a student fee referendum, opinion polls, or SUA Constitutional Amendments on the 2010 Campus Elections ballot. It is mandatory to attend one of these three sessions if you plan to author a referendum, opinion poll or SUA Constitutional Amendment. Please note: No…
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Archived video of the UC Commission on the Future meeting at UCSC
Archived video is available of the October 29 meeting at UC Santa Cruz of the Work Group representatives of the UC Commission on the Future. The Commission on the Future meeting may be viewed at: http://webcast.ucsc.edu/commissionfuture.mov The commission, founded by UC Board of Regents Chairman Russell Gould and President Mark Yudof, is looking at how…
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Ridesharing opportunity for Thanksgiving
Heading home for Thanksgiving? Use Zimride to find others going the same way as you are. Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) has partnered with Zimride to provide a UCSC-specific rideshare program that makes it easy to share seats in your car or catch a ride with fellow UCSC students. Zimride works at the spur-of-the-moment for…
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Summer 2010 Orientation Dates: Mark Your Calendars
Each year during Summer Orientation the campus officially welcomes new students and their families. Summer Orientation represents the first step toward a student’s academic and social transition into university life, eventually leading to graduation and becoming a UC Santa Cruz alumnus! Faculty, advisers, and staff are an invaluable resource for new students during Orientation. Your…
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Cosmology lectures by Joel Primack and Nancy Abrams now on YouTube
Joel Primack, professor of physics, and his wife Nancy Abrams gave a series of four public lectures at Yale University in October, and videos of those talks are now available on YouTube.
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H1N1 clinics administer 1,800 doses of vaccine to UCSC students
H1N1 influenza immunization clinics on campus during the past two week administered 1800 doses of vaccine to UCSC students. We are awaiting our next shipment of vaccine, at which time additional campus shot clinics will be arranged. A campuswide broadcast email will go out to all students when the next round of shot clinics are…
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Nobuhiko Kobayashi named co-director of Advanced Studies Laboratory
Nobuhiko Kobayashi, associate professor of electrical engineering, has been appointed co-director of the Advanced Studies Laboratory, a collaborative research facility jointly administered by UCSC and the NASA Ames Research Center.