Campus News
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Alumna Belle Yang contributes cover art to second issue of Catamaran
“Kite”–a 1997 painting by UC Santa Cruz alumna Belle Yang—is the featured art on the cover of the just released Spring 2013 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader.
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Easing students through the dog days of midterms
UCSC’s Science and Engineering Library hosted a very successful pilot program allowing hard-working young scholars to ease their stresses and pet a “therapy dog.”
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Historic Hay Barn to be reinvented as environmental center
Thanks to a $5 million gift, the historic Cowell Ranch Hay Barn at UC Santa Cruz will be reinvented as the centerpiece of a revived campus entrance and new home for many of UCSC’s innovative environmental sustainability programs.
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Students’ Safety Concerns
It has been a trying couple of weeks. We are grateful to see the UCSC community rally together out of concern stemming from the report of a very serious campus crime, as well as in response to a number of acts of other unimaginable violence in the greater Santa Cruz community.
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Announcing 2013-2014 Student Union Assembly Officer Application Process
The time has come to elect our 2013-2014 student body officers.
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Major gift will rebuild a campus landmark and bolster pioneering programs
In a message to the campus community, Chancellor Blumenthal announces that UCSC has received a $5 million gift that will transform the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.
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DNA study clarifies relationship between polar bears and brown bears
A new genetic study of polar bears and brown bears upends prevailing ideas about the evolutionary history of the two species.
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Works by UCSC music professor to be featured at Smithsonian
Thousand Gates, a concert featuring two new works by UC Santa Cruz professor of music Hi Kyung Kim, is set to be performed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on April 7.
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In Memoriam — Lucas Condit-Schultz
With great sadness we write to inform you that one of our students, Lucas Condit-Schultz, died over the weekend. Lucas, a Merrill junior and Politics major, was a recent transfer to UCSC who had deep family roots in the city of Santa Cruz and at UCSC itself.
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In Memoriam — Karina Hermosillo
A treasured member of UCSC’s Student Health Services staff, Karina Hermosillo, has passed away. Karina, who had worked as a Medical Assistant in our center since November 2007, died unexpectedly on March 3. She was 27.
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Winter/Spring Staff Forum with Chancellor Blumenthal
All UCSC staff are invited to the SAB-sponsored Winter/Spring Staff Forum with Chancellor Blumenthal on Wednesday, March 20, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at Stevenson Event Center.
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International collaboration to investigate disappearing reptiles and amphibians
UCSC biologist Barry Sinervo leads NSF-funded project to study the effects of climate change on plants and animals around the world.