Alumni
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Video chat with Chancellor Blumenthal
Chancellor Blumenthal reflects on spring commencement, campus achievements and challenges over the 2010-2011 academic year, and the 25th anniversary of the banana slug becoming the official mascot of UC Santa Cruz.
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A summary of summery things to do at UCSC
The long, lazy days of summer are a great time to explore UC Santa Cruz and its off-campus facilities. Whether you want to soak up some culture with a play, learn about exotic plants, or get up close and personal with marine mammals, UCSC offers the opportunity.
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10×10: 10 grads in 10 days
UCSC’s Class of 2011 includes these outstanding 10 new graduates, whose profiles–including photos and videos–will roll out here over the two weeks before commencement.
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UCSC artists featured in ‘First Friday’ Santa Cruz community art tour
“First Friday”–Santa Cruz’s popular monthly art and gallery tour–now features more than two dozen venues around the downtown area. On June 3, three of those venues will showcase the work of UCSC student artists.
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Felicia Rice featured at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center
Alumna Felicia Rice (Cowell ’78)—now manager for UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program (DANM)—will be featured in The Art of the Book in California: Five Contemporary Presses, an exhibition at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center.
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President of Lionsgate Television to give keynote address at UCSC Film Symposium
UCSC alumnus Kevin Beggs, the president of Lionsgate Television Group, will deliver the keynote address for a two-day film symposium—Bridging the Gap—at UC Santa Cruz, June 3-4.
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UCSC economist expects emerging economies to push for next IMF head
The resignation of the head of the International Monetary Fund sets the stage for a tussle between developing countries and European economies, according to Joshua Aizenman, an international economics expert at UC Santa Cruz.
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UC Santa Cruz students reap the benefits of Measure 43
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of Measure 43, the student-funded Sustainable Food, Health, and Wellness Initiative at UC Santa Cruz that has treated thousands of students to a broad menu of ways to learn about food, including workshops, campus conferences, events, and classes.
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Ant Farm founder and emeritus professor Chip Lord to be honored at UCSC film symposium
Years before he joined the faculty at UCSC, Chip Lord was a member of the Ant Farm, a groundbreaking, experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels.
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New book questions effectiveness of peace-building workshops
In his new book, UCSC psychology professor Phillip L. Hammack questions the effectiveness of peace-building workshops involving Israeli and Palestinian teenagers in the United States.
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UCSC to host tennis championships
UC Santa Cruz Athletics Department has been selected as one of the sites for the 2011 NCAA Men’s Tennis Division III Championships.