Donor News
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Jean-Michel Cousteau: ‘I am convinced we can change’
Ocean environmentalist Cousteau expresses both concern and hope for the future of the world’s oceans in a discussion of the BP oil spill with alum and NPR science correspondent Richard Harris
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Netflix CEO: Luck, ‘maniacal determination’ played into company’s success
Speaking to a crowd of 400 at Tuesday’s What’s Next lecture co-sponsored by UCSC, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings shared success tales and early horror stories.
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Funding boost for hay barn restoration project
The UC Santa Cruz Foundation and the Friends of the Cowell Lime Works Historic District is gaining momentum in its efforts to preserve the sprawling, fast deteriorating hay barn near the base of campus.
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Arboretum’s fall sale October 9 features wide variety of plants
The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum will hold its annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 9, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Eucalyptus Grove on High Street.
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Newly discovered planet may be first truly habitable exoplanet
A team of planet hunters has announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting a nearby star at a distance that places it squarely in the middle of the star’s “habitable zone.”
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Staying connected: UCSC launches iPhone app
Busy, multi-tasking students can now keep up with life at UC Santa Cruz, thanks to a new free iPhone app with regularly updated campus news, videos, photos, events and even an emergency feed.
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Astronomer Sandra Faber profiled on KTEH
KTEH, the San Jose public television station, profiles astronomer Sandra Faber in a new episode of the program “This Is Us” that will air on September 8.
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UC Santa Cruz professor one of top academic experts on Honduras
In late June, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank traveled to Honduras to observe the one-year anniversary of the country’s 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya. Frank is one of the top academic experts on Honduras in the United States
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Local group funds UCSC cancer researchers
The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group, a local charity supporting cancer research and patient care, has awarded grants of $10,000 each to three researchers at UCSC.
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Authors of new book about Grateful Dead’s marketing approach to donate one fourth of advance and royalties to UC Santa Cruz
Inspired by a thought-provoking feature article by Joshua Green in the March issue of Atlantic magazine titled Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead, Boston writers David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan have just published a new book rele
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UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey receives Guggenheim for poetry
UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry.
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UCSC community supports local charities even in tough times
The UC Santa Cruz community once again showed compassion and generosity during the campus’s 2009 year-end fundraising drive.