Faculty
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Chancellor, provost provide update on campus actions related to protest
UCSC’s chancellor and campus provost provide an update on campus actions that occurred during campus closure related to the illegal actions at the site of the proposed Biomedical Sciences building on Science Hill.
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Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita receives MLA prize
Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita has received an honorable mention award from The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) as part of its 15th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies. Kinoshita received the honor for her book, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature, published by the University of…
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Services during Winter Break and Campus Closure
The Student Health Center, including the CPS office, will be closed during Campus Closure from December 22 through January 1. During the week of December 17 through December 21, Student Health Services will provide Urgent Care at the Student Health Center, receiving patients daily between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Offices will reopen on Wednesday,…
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Dominican Occupational Health Center Closure – Dec. 22 to Jan. 7
Dominican Occupational Health Center (DOHC), UCSC’s designated facility for on-the-job injuries, will be closed for two weeks, from December 24 through January 4. DOHC will reopen on Monday, January 7, 2008. During the two-week closure, Dominican Hospital Emergency Department at 1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz, will be UCSC’s designated facility. Supervisors should direct employees requiring…
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Update on Science Hill encampment
Campus grounds crews report that people who had camped illegally on the ground at a Science Hill site during the past six weeks departed over the weekend. While a few people remain in the trees, crews are cleaning up the site on the ground this morning. Since the people in the trees and their wooden…
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California Coastal Commission approves UC Santa Cruz’s Coastal LRDP
At a hearing today in San Francisco, the California Coastal Commission approved UC Santa Cruz’s Coastal Long Range Development Plan (CLRDP), a land-use blueprint for possible future development at the site of UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory.
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NAACP chairman to address King Convocation Jan. 30
Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak at UCSC’s 24th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation January 30.
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John Mock elected to council of Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Hindi and Urdu lecturer John Mock has been elected to the Executive Council of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) for a four-year term. The organization joins people with wide-ranging interests in the Himalayan region with the goal of increasing awareness of the unparalleled diversity of the human and natural worlds within the…
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Vice Provost Silicon Valley Initiatives
I write to inform you that following the recommendation of the search committee for the Vice Provost, Silicon Valley Initiatives, Chancellor Blumenthal and I have extended an offer of appointment to Professor Joseph Miller. Professor Miller has accepted the offer; however, final approval of the appointment is pending action by the Office of the President.…
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Ink, but not toner, cartridges recyclable on campus
Conscientiously recycling depleted cartridges from office equipment such as laser printers is laudable, but the cartridge recycling program on campus sometimes gets too much of a good thing. The program takes inkjet or laser jet cartridges, but it cannot recycle toner cartridges, according to Marie Waltrip, financial specialist for Residential, Family & Early Education Services.…
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Stewardship of campus grounds is a labor of love
Grounds Services’ Site Stewardship program takes on ecological restoration and guardianship of campus land with help from volunteers.
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UCSC appoints new associate vice chancellor for public affairs and communications
Barry Shiller, a public affairs professional with private-sector and higher-education experience, has been appointed the new associate vice chancellor for public affairs and communications at UC Santa Cruz.