Faculty
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Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt elected IEEE Fellow
Schmidt, the Kapany Professor of Optoelectronics, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Chemistry professor Pradip Mascharak receives Outstanding Faculty Award
Mascharak received the 2016 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.
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Holiday Open House
Chancellor George Blumenthal and his wife, Professor Kelly Weisberg, invite faculty, staff, and friends to join together for a special holiday gathering on Thursday, December 15, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Porter Dining Hall.
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Caring for our animal friends
The student-run Pre-Veterinary Club is designed to support and energize those who want a career working with animals.
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Restorative justice and civil rights leader Fania Davis to give Baskin Ethics Lecture
Fania Davis, co-founder and executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, will deliver the 2016 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture on Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Music Center Recital Hall.
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Ride-sharing available through Zimride matching service
UC Santa Cruz subscribes to Zimride, a campus-specific ride-matching service. Zimride helps you offer or request rides for your daily trips to and from campus or one-time road trips (such as getting to local airports, or getting home for Thanksgiving).
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Students to pitch viable ideas for positive environmental change
The first Startup Weekend Santa Cruz for Sustainable Solutions & Social Impact, Nov. 18–20, is just one of more than 200 events happening in November as part of Global Startup Weekend.
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Community Crime Bulletin—Two arrested in felony vandalism at OPERS
At 8:25 p.m. on November 10, UC Santa Cruz Police Department arrested Kyle Daroza, 22, of Campbell, and Alan Lema, 22, a student affiliated with Kresge College, on a suspicion of felony vandalism after they were seen by witnesses using a sledge hammer attempting to smash the parking machines near the Office of Physical Education,…
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New initiative launches with $1 million Koret Undergraduate Research Scholarships
Applications for the $1,500 undergraduate research scholarships are now open until Nov. 30. Fifty scholarships will be awarded to students in any discipline.
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Elementary school students visit voting rights exhibition at UCSC on Election Day
Seventy-five 4th and 5th grade two-way immersion (Spanish-language) students from Delaveaga Elementary School came to UC Santa Cruz on Election Day to explore two art exhibits currently on display.
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StoryCruz: New beginnings
With freshman Slugs roaming the campus, StoryCruz set out this fall to see how they’re faring.
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Moving forward
Like many of you, we watched the presidential election results in astonishment. Many of us are struggling this morning to reconcile the outcome of the vote with the values we hold close.