Alumni
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UCSC graduate awarded $10,000 for best American thesis on modern India
UC Santa Cruz graduate Gillian Goslinga has been honored with the 2006 Sardar Patel Award for “the best dissertation submitted at any American university on the subject of modern India.” The award of $10,000 is administered each year by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia. Eligible dissertations must be completed at an American…
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Friends of UCSC Library contest winners honored
Winners of the Friends of the UCSC Library’s 41st annual Book Collection Essay Contest for UCSC students were recently recognized at an awards ceremony held at McHenry Library. Students were asked to imagine a collection of books that they would like to own concerning their favorite subject. They were then instructed to write an essay…
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More freshmen than expected say they plan to attend UCSC
About 4,200 freshmen–several hundred more than had been expected–have indicated they plan to enroll at UC Santa Cruz in the fall.
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Sutter scholarship will support UCSC health sciences grad in med school
Allison Abresch-Meyer will get some welcome assistance paying her medical school bills thanks to a new scholarship established by the Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center and the Central Coast Alliance for Health to benefit graduates of the health sciences p
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UC Santa Cruz celebrates 40 years of leadership in sustainable agriculture and organic farming
Decades before Wal-Mart began selling organic food, a charismatic Englishman and a group of students transformed a brush-covered hillside at the University of California, Santa Cruz, into a lush garden where vegetables and flowers were grown without chemi
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New book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) explains how self-deception dooms marriages, starts wars, and promotes a culture of unaccountability
In the new book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), Elliot Aronson spells out how the psychological mechanism of self-justification puts us on a slippery slope of self-deception that frequently gets us into enormous trouble when we are unable to ac
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Climate change and green technology the focus of June 8 forum at UC Santa Cruz
Climate change expert Lisa Sloan and green technology proponent Steve Westly will be the keynote speakers during the sixth annual Foundation Forum at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Friday, June 8, at 4 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall.
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Men’s tennis team wins 6th national title
For the sixth time in school history, UCSC’s men’s tennis team has captured an NCAA national championship. The lastest jewel in the decorated team’s crown was added Thursday when the Slugs defeated Emory University of Atlanta 5-1. The 2007 NCAA Division III championships were played at Washington University in St. Louis. “They’re all different every…
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Phillip Berman appointed to Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering
UC Santa Cruz has appointed Phillip Berman, professor and chair of biomolecular engineering, to the Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering.
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UCSC receives $157,000 to support open archive of congressional proceedings
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $157,000 grant from the Sunlight Foundation to support Metavid-an online, open-source archive of U.S. House and Senate proceedings created last year by two graduate students and hosted by the campus. The award was among a round of grants totaling $267,000 that the foundation has distributed to…
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UCSC Arboretum Music Series begins May 17
UC Santa Cruz will kick off its third annual Arboretum Music Series on Thursday, May 17, with a concert by Austin, Texas, singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo, at the Arboretum Amphitheater, located off Empire Grade in Santa Cruz. The series will present folk, blues, and roots concerts on the third Thursdays of the month, from May through…
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Infectious disease expert to discuss deadly epidemics in public lecture at UCSC on Tuesday, May 22
Dr. Donald P. Francis, executive director and chief medical officer of Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, will discuss “Confronting Deadly Epidemics Around the World” in a free public lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Tuesday, May 22.