Campus News

  • New book sheds light on survival of Jewish culture

    New book sheds light on survival of Jewish culture

    This October, UCSC professor of literature and history Nathaniel Deutsch will offer the first complete translation of a little known ethnographic questionnaire–and the story of an ambitious attempt to document a culture during an extraordinarily volatile time in world history.

  • LALS post-doc’s research proposal wins top award from UC-Mexico funder

    LALS post-doc’s research proposal wins top award from UC-Mexico funder

    Tania Cruz Salazar’s research on immigration by indigenous youth recently won the UC MEXUS Monarch Award for the most outstanding proposal submitted for funding this year.

  • S.C. City Council to declare official “Day of the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug”

    S.C. City Council to declare official “Day of the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug”

    A resolution to honor the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug mascot is on the agenda of an upcoming Santa Cruz City Council meeting.

  • The Sammy you don’t know

    The Sammy you don’t know

    You might think you’re an expert when it comes to banana slugs’ impact on popular culture. You might even think that Sammy the Slug’s cameo appearance—on John Travolta’s UCSC T-shirt in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 movie sensation Pulp Fiction—was the only example of banana slugs infiltrating popular culture. But Pulp was only the starting point. Here…

  • Fall recreation, intramural sports guide now available online

    Fall recreation, intramural sports guide now available online

    The UCSC Recreation & OPERS (Office of Physical Education, Recreation & Sports) Fall Recreation, Intramural and Sports Digital Guide is now available online. Visitors can also check out the newly relaunched website. After browsing the catalog, members of the UCSC community can register for  recreation online beginning September 27 at 9 a.m. In addition to…

  • “Radical Reels” high adventure film night comes to UCSC

    The “Radical Reels” Film Tour, an evening of exhilarating high adventure films, will soon touch down on campus.  Radical Reels comes to Classroom Unit 2 at 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 24.   The event is sponsored by Recreation & BAS Auxiliary Services. Tickets for UCSC Students are $5 ($10, community price) For more information…

  • Frans Lanting’s multimedia show to highlight UCSC evening at Flint Center

    Frans Lanting’s multimedia show to highlight UCSC evening at Flint Center

    For more than two decades, acclaimed nature photographer Frans Lanting has documented wildlife from the Amazon to Antarctica, in an effort to promote understanding about the Earth and its natural history. On October 15, he will join with the campus for a remarkable evening of art, science and life, at the Flint Center in Cupertino.

  • Slideshow: move-in 2011

    Photos from move-in 2011. Click a thumbnail to view the larger image. Use left and right arrow keys to navigate slideshow images.

  • UC Santa Cruz Welcome Week draws spirited crowd of students, families

    UC Santa Cruz Welcome Week draws spirited crowd of students, families

    Caravans of SUVs and station wagons brought eager student and their families, while teams of volunteers welcomed the throng.

  • Transit Service Changes

    Please note changes to transit service at UCSC and throughout the surrounding Santa Cruz community.

  • UCSC in the News

    New planet discoveries by the Kepler mission received widespread news coverage, with many stories quoting UCSC astronomers Greg Laughlin, Daniel Fabrycky, or Jonathan Fortney, including coverage in the Washington Post, CNN.com, Space Daily, Science 2.0, Asian News International, International Business Times, PC magazine, and Digital Journal.

  • Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars

    Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars

    A world with multiple suns is a common trope in science fiction, and scientific reality has now caught up, with a report from NASA’s Kepler mission of a planet orbiting two stars.

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