Campus News
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Ocean scientist Tom Guilderson wins E. O. Lawrence Award
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the 2011 E. O. Lawrence Award in Biological and Environmental Sciences to ocean scientist Tom Guilderson.
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Hahn Student Services reopens
I am pleased to inform you that we anticipate reopening Hahn Student Services on Wednesday morning. Shortly before noon today, protesters voluntarily vacated the building. As of this writing, staff are returning to Hahn and preparing to resume normal operations tomorrow.
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SSC and Theater Arts team up for holiday extravaganza
After a brief hiatus, the popular year-end holiday co-production by Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Theater Arts Department returns this year for “A Year with Frog and Toad”—running through December 11 at UCSC’s Mainstage Theater.
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Writing instructor’s essay included in natural history anthology
An essay by Sarah Juniper Rabkin, a lecturer and researcher in the UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies Department is included in “The Way of Natural History” (Trinity University Press, 2011), an anthology in which more than 20 writers argue that attention to nature is a key pathway to nurturing our humanity.
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The following message was distributed early today (Monday, November 28) to staff who were scheduled to work in Hahn Student Services Building: _____ To: Staff, Hahn Student Services Building Fr: Ellen Ziff, Building Coordinator Re: Closure of Hahn Student Services Building As of early this morning, a group of approximately 50 students is protesting at…
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Hahn Student Services protest
As you may know, the Hahn Student Services building never opened today (Monday) after protesters blocked entrances to the offices there. In the afternoon, several dozen protesters entered the locked building and gathered in an area that included the Financial Aid Office on the second floor. We have been in communication with the people who…
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UCSC grad is an editor of the ‘Occupied Wall Street Journal’
Despite the bust-up of Occupy encampments nationwide, a UC Santa Cruz graduate who helps edit the newspaper for the popular movement credits media outreach with spreading the message of economic fairness beyond the downtown parks where the movement began.
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UCSC in the News
History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to The Nation revealing how new Wikileaks cables show that US-funded troops in Honduras have been collaborating with a known drug trafficker in his private army’s war against campesinos in that country.
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UCSC gets top spot in nationwide “vegan schools” contest
UC Santa Cruz has come in first place in a heated, five-week contest to determine the “#1 vegan friendly college in the nation.”
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Alum’s high-finance career talk draws eager crowd
A formally dressed, resume-toting group of career-minded students was part of the standing-room-only crowd at last week’s Career Center event, which featured Sam Rosenberg (Cowell ’93, math), a rising star at the Paris-based Societe Generale. Employing 130,000 people worldwide, the firm is the world’s 9th largest bank and investment house.
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Campus leadership supports peaceful demonstations
Chancellor George Blumenthal and CP/EVC Alison Galloway comment on police actions at UC Davis and Berkeley and express support for the right to peacefully demonstrate on UC campuses.
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Chocolate Festival volunteers needed
Volunteers needed for the annual Santa Cruz Chocolate Festival on Sunday, January 22, 2012 from 1 – 4 p.m.