Experiential Learning
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Student robotics competition on March 13 features Star Trek theme
Robotic “starships” built by UCSC engineering students will face off in a free public demonstration on Wednesday, March 13.
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Slug Stand-Up lets students express themselves through comedy
The four members of UCSC’s Slug Stand-Up comedy squad bare their souls while trying to keep stage-fright in check, but they say everything is worth it just to make people laugh.
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Bringing it back home: Scholarship Benefit Dinner celebrates 10 years of giving
Held on campus for the first time in five years, the Scholarship Benefit Dinner featured a rousing, Banana Slug-centric address by Kevin Beggs, president of Lionsgate Television Group, with hit shows including “Mad Men” and “Weeds.”
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Student research project attracts European partners and NSF funding
Research on Mediterranean seagrass leads to international collaboration and a grant to extend students’ findings.
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Israeli filmmaker to screen acclaimed documentary about famed architect
UCSC’s Film and Digital Media Department will present a free public screening of award-winning Israeli documentarian Duki Dror’s acclaimed film “Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions” on Feb. 25, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
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Type and literature and poetry
UCSC’s Cowell Press, a decades-old program, uses hands-on creativity to teach students the traditional arts of typography and printing.
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Tracking pumas
UCSC students get first-hand scientific experience while monitoring the elusive big cats as part of the Puma Project.
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UCSC alumna wins 2012 HBO/NALIP Documentary Filmmaker Award
Kimberly Bautista–a 2009 graduate of the Social Documentation Program at UC Santa Cruz–has been named the winner of the 2012 HBO and National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) Documentary Film Award.
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Mercury in coastal fog linked to upwelling of deep ocean water
Scientists have found clues to how mercury gets into coastal fog in California.
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History grad student to study in Japan on Fulbright-Hays fellowship
Dustin Wright, a Ph.D. student in the UCSC History Department, has received a $43,800 Fulbright-Hays doctoral fellowship to pursue research in Japan.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz holiday show opens Nov. 16
Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the UCSC Theater Arts Department kick off their 14th annual holiday co-production on November 16 with Honk!–a musical re-telling of “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen.
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Deep learning
UCSC’s scientific diving program provides crucial training for students who want to work in marine science fields