Faculty
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Campus launches mobile app to track shuttles in real time
Transportation and Parking Services, in collaboration with undergraduate and graduate students, has launched SlugRoute, which tracks campus buses in real time.
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Student-made videos focus on sexual assault awareness, reporting options
The five videos, sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Police Department, will debut at 7 p.m., April 27 at the Stevenson Event Center.
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Percolating ideas
Grad student Sarah Beganskas is studying what could become part of the solution to California’s water crisis: collecting storm runoff so it can seep into the ground instead of being diverted to rivers and seas.
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UCSC Farm & Garden’s annual spring plant sale takes place April 30 and May 1
With winter rains and April showers greening yards and moistening garden beds, the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden’s spring plant sale comes at the perfect time.
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Enthusiasm, excitement for discovery drives Grad Slam winner
Planetary science student Michael Nayak has opened up new fields of study and planetary data analysis.
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History professor Peter Kenez honored with top UC award for emeriti faculty
The 2016 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring emeriti professors in the University of California system, has been awarded to UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus of history Peter Kenez.
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Alums Martha Mendoza, William Finnegan win 2016 Pulitzer Prize
Journalism’s highest honor is awarded to the Associated Press and Mendoza for public service and in biography to Finnegan for his surfing memoir.
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Two faculty members honored with Dickson Emeriti Professorship Awards
Chip Lord, professor emeritus of film and digital media, and Lewis Watts, professor emeritus of art, were each awarded Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorships in recognition of their outstanding achievements in scholarship and teaching.
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Vice Provost for Global Engagement
Joel Ferguson, professor of computer engineering, has agreed to serve as the interim vice provost for global engagement, effective immediately.
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Proposal to increase parking fees
Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) is proposing a three-year fare increase for most parking fees, as well as the faculty/staff bus pass.
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UC Santa Cruz art professor Dee Hibbert-Jones wins 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones has been awarded a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship in film and video.