Alumni
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EPA recognizes dining’s waste reduction efforts
The campus achieved impressive source reduction of wasted food through a variety of approaches involving both staff and students.
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Alumni Profile / 1991: Melissa Nelson: Revitalizing native cultures
Melissa Nelson believes the best ways to teach Native American youth about their cultural past is through their hearts and minds, as well as their stomachs.
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Women’s volleyball, soccer teams to compete in NCAA championship
The UC Santa Cruz women’s volleyball and soccer teams are headed to the NCAA Division III championships.
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CARE office provides confidential advocacy in cases of sexual violence
CARE is the advocacy office at UC Santa Cruz, providing support and resources for survivors of sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking.
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Theater Arts collaborates with Tandy Beal & Company for ‘Nutz Re-Mixed’
Over 30 dancers and world circus artists will perform acts of comedy and outrageous skill in “Nutz Re-Mixed,” running Nov. 20 to Dec. 6 at the Mainstage Theater.
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How rugby arrived—unexpectedly—at UC Santa Cruz
Begun in the late 1960s, rugby teams remain a force on campus, and committed alumni have launched a new tradition of an annual rugby reunion
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California’s poet laureate emeritus Al Young to read at annual Morton Marcus event
Award-winning American poet, novelist, and former UC Santa Cruz lecturer Al Young will be the featured guest at the sixth annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading.
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Alumni Profile / 1984: Barbara Garcia: Health mission
When the opportunity came to help start Salud Para La Gente, a tiny health clinic for those same low-income residents in Watsonville, Barbara Garcia gave up her goal of being a teacher and jumped at the chance. Little did she know where that decision would lead.
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore to speak at UC Santa Cruz on police and prisons
On Nov. 9, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies will present a free public lecture, “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution & the Police.”
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Conference to focus on utopian thinking in the face of environmental threats
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of UC Santa Cruz, the conference on November 6 and 7 will offer a gamut of futurists sharing new visions and old, on the campus, California, and the world.
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Federal grants to support student success, equity initiatives at UC Santa Cruz
Totaling $3.6 million, the awards are the result of a campuswide effort to look at how UC Santa Cruz can best serve Latino and other students who have a difficult time when they start college.
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Banana Slug Parade brings campus, community together
The “first-on-the-planet” procession was a whimsical and entertaining celebration of UC Santa Cruz’s five-decades-long residence in Santa Cruz.