Alumni
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Doctoral candidate heading to DC after graduation
Lauren Malone will be heading to Washington, D.C., after earning a Ph.D. in economics this spring.
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Award-winning journalist Alexander Stille to be keynote speaker at statewide Italian Studies conference hosted by UCSC
Award-winning author and journalist Alexander Stille will be the keynote speaker at a statewide conference presented by the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies at UC Santa Cruz, February 29-March 1.
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Alums teach UCSC film students about life in the movie biz
Four successful alums in the film industry returned to campus on February 2 for a roundtable discussion on how to succeed in the business of making movies.
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UCSC’s Banana Slug among ESPN’s top 10 best team names
UCSC’s Banana Slug mascot has been named among the top 10 best team nicknames in college basketball by ESPN Sports Travel.
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UC Santa Cruz is first UC campus to contribute books for Google digital library project
The University of California, Santa Cruz, today became the first UC campus to contribute a shipment of books from its library for the Google Books Library Project. The massive project was launched in 2004 when Google announced it would be working with the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, and the…
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Undergraduate offers empowerment classes for girls at three Santa Cruz middle schools
In a unique town-gown collaboration, a UCSC undergraduate has teamed up with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education to offer empowerment classes to girls at three local middle schools.
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Graduate student’s film featured at Sundance Film Festival
Documentary filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura can’t wait to see his film screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He just wishes he could get his hands on enough tickets for all his friends and family.
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UC Santa Cruz professor investigates the extraordinary power of insults
What kind of injury is an insult? Is its infliction determined by the insulter or the insulted? What does it reveal about the character of both parties, as well as the character of society and its conventions? What is its role in social and legal life? How ready should we be to forgive? Those questions…
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Chancellor, provost provide update on campus actions related to protest
UCSC’s chancellor and campus provost provide an update on campus actions that occurred during campus closure related to the illegal actions at the site of the proposed Biomedical Sciences building on Science Hill.
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Undergraduate makes the most of opportunities at UCSC
Overcoming obstacles and pursuing her dreams are two of the life skills Katie Roper says she acquired at UCSC, where several professors encouraged her to take a hands-on approach to her education.
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California Coastal Commission approves UC Santa Cruz’s Coastal LRDP
At a hearing today in San Francisco, the California Coastal Commission approved UC Santa Cruz’s Coastal Long Range Development Plan (CLRDP), a land-use blueprint for possible future development at the site of UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory.
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UCSC receives gift of rare audio interviews and photos of late ’60s jazz and rock icons
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, Frank Kofsky. The collection includes 35mm slides, prints, and negatives of such recording artists as John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ornette…