Campus News
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Forums, web pages explore candidates, issues as election approaches
With the state and national election less than four weeks away, several election forums and events are scheduled at UC Santa Cruz. In addition, the campus has prepared a comprehensive web page with information on candidates, state ballot initiatives, and deadlines for registering to vote.
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UCSC chemist develops spray to detect poison oak’s toxic oil
Researchers have developed a spray that can be used to detect poison oak’s toxic oil on clothes and equipment, and potentially on skin.
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Winter Campus Curtailment 2012-2013
Our 2012-2013 Winter Campus Curtailment is scheduled for the time period of December 22, 2012 through January 1, 2013.
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Video message from Chancellor Blumenthal
Fall Quarter video message from Chancellor Blumenthal.
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From the chancellor
Young, smart, and beautiful. There are many ways to describe UC Santa Cruz, but those three words sum us up remarkably well.
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Triloki Pandey wins Gandhi medal for non-resident Indians
Triloki N. Pandey, a professor of anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Medal by the NRI Welfare Society of India.
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Professor Richard “Ed” Green will be featured on PBS science show
Season premiere of NOVA scienceNOW featuring UCSC professor will air at 10 p.m. October 10 on PBS station KQED Channel 9.
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UCSC in the News
New findings on the diets of great white sharks was covered in the Los Angeles Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, KION TV, Science Daily, PhysOrg, RedOrbit, and eScienceNews, with quotes from researchers Paul Koch and Sora Kim. Electrical engineer Michael Isaacson was quoted in stories about…
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Private giving climbs 9.4 percent at UCSC; alumni giving nearly triples
Private donors gave nearly $24 million in gifts and pledges to support UC Santa Cruz in fiscal year 2011-2012, an increase of 9.4 percent from the previous year. Alumni giving roughly tripled — from $2.5 million to $7.3 million, and alumni giving increased from 11 percent of the total to 30 percent.
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Election forum October 22 explores what’s at stake for California
A forum on the November election and what’s at stake for California will take place Monday, October 22, from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. at the multipurpose room of Colleges Nine and Ten on the UCSC campus. It is free and open to the public.
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Depression Awareness Day Webinar
UC will offer a free one-hour webinar on Depression Awareness Day on Thursday, October 11, 2012 that will allow faculty and staff to learn more about the signs, symptoms, and treatment of depression as well as how to get support for yourself, your family, friends, and colleagues.
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Terry Freitas Café honors memory of inspirational young alumnus
Café Revolucion has been rededicated as the Terry Freitas Café, commemorating a UCSC grad who died while in service to an indigenous people.