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  • UCSC fills Campus Provost position, other senior administrative posts

    The Regents of the University of California have approved the appointment of Professor David S. Kliger to the position of campus provost and executive vice chancellor at UC Santa Cruz. Kliger, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and former dean of physical and biological sciences, had served in the campus’s number two administrative position on…

  • Skewed system facilitates death sentences and undermines fairness of capital punishment, says author of new book Death by Design

    In a harsh critique of the death penalty before a gathering of the nation’s lawyers last month, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said recent exonerations of death row inmates reveal serious procedural flaws that undermine the way capital punishment is administered in this country. Stevens’s remarks before members of the American Bar Association…

  • UCSC Professor David Haussler to receive Carnegie Mellon’s Dickson Prize

    Carnegie Mellon University will award its prestigious Dickson Prize in Science to David Haussler, a leader in the field of bioinformatics and professor of biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Haussler will receive an award of $50,000 and will deliver a public lecture as part of the prize ceremony to be held…

  • UCSC Humanities Division offers new seminars for local schoolteachers

    Since 2003, the UCSC Humanities Division’s Teacher Scholar Program has offered a series of seminars each year to help local middle, junior, and high school teachers with curriculum enrichment. Presented in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Salinas Union High School District, UCSC Extension, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation,…

  • Economics Department at UC Santa Cruz ranked ninth in world in international finance

    The Economics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was ranked ninth in the world in the field of international finance in a survey of more than 300 public and private research universities. The ranking is based on the research productivity of faculty as measured by scholarly publications in 63 academic journals from 1993…

  • UCSC professor Lucinda Pease-Alvarez joins innovative teacher-prep effort

    Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, an associate professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is one of 17 educators around the country named to an innovative project that will develop a “virtual apprenticeship” for novice teachers. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Pease-Alvarez and 16 others as the first Goldman-Carnegie Quest…

  • Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group funds cancer research at UC Santa Cruz

    The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group (SCCBG) has established a new fellowship to support cancer research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The SCCBG Research Fellowship is an annual award of $10,000 to support a UCSC graduate student or postdoctoral researcher engaged in cancer-related research. The group awarded the first SCCBG Research Fellowship to…

  • UC Santa Cruz will get training grants from California stem cell institute

    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week announced its first grant awards, including a $1.2 million training grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to establish a new training program in the systems biology of stem cells. The UCSC program will be part of a larger CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell…

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSC faculty available to discuss aspects of Katrina aftermath

    A number of faculty from UC Santa Cruz are available to discuss aspects of the post-Hurricane Katrina story. Their fields of expertise range from the science of climate change to the racial implications of the story; their contact information follows: Climate Change and Destructive Storms Lisa Sloan Professor of Earth sciences; Vice Provost and Dean…

  • UCSC team to share environmental justice expertise with state air board

    Environmental justice researchers are at the forefront of efforts to evaluate the risks posed by air pollution, particularly the disproportionate risks faced by residents of low-income and minority neighborhoods. So it’s good news that Manuel Pastor, professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a leading researcher in…

  • UCSC instructor links writing to democracy in Higher Education Exchange interview

    Don Rothman views the writing classroom as a laboratory for democracy. After 27 years of guiding teachers and 32 years of teaching college students, he is convinced that writing classes are temporary communities in which students can develop critical thinking skills and lifelong habits that can contribute to democracy. A senior writing lecturer and founding…

  • New research unveils complex mechanisms that control cell growth and division

    Researchers studying the molecular mechanisms that control cell growth and division are piecing together a surprising and complicated regulatory system that offers promising targets for anticancer drugs. A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has revealed the interactions between key regulatory proteins that determine when cells initiate the process…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025