Campus News
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Preview Day 2011 — Saturday, October 15
Preview Day is the annual Saturday campus tour opportunity for prospective students and their families.
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UCSC in the News
Research by planetary scientist Erik Asphaug was featured in a Nature news story about the Dawn spacecraft’s investigation of the asteroid Vesta.
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Mount Hamilton not recommended for viewing Perseid meteor shower
There are plenty of good places from which to observe the Perseid meteor shower this weekend, but atop Mount Hamilton is not one of them.
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UC Santa Cruz honored for ‘green’ lighting retrofit at Science & Engineering Library
The UC Santa Cruz campus has just earned yet another “green” building award for sustainable practices. The latest honor, the Best Practice Lighting Award, recognizes the extraordinary amount of electricity the university will save each year because of its recent retrofit of the Science & Engineering Library.
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Heller Drive improvement project update
The Heller Drive improvement project has caused some delay for those traveling on the west side of campus.
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Biologist John Pearse awarded California Academy of Sciences Fellows’ Medal
The California Academy of Sciences has awarded its highest honor, the Fellows’ Medal, to UCSC biologist John Pearse.
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New face of public safety: Nader Oweis sworn in as UCSC chief of police
Sworn into office on Tuesday, Nader Oweis, UCSC’s brand-new police chief, is known for his years of experience and his cool-headed responses to stressful situations.
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McHenry Library Café Vendor Selection
The UCSC Library is pleased to announce the selection of the vendor who will operate the new Global Village Café located in the McHenry Library lobby.
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UCSC in the News
International media coverage of planetary scientist Erik Asphaug’s theory that a smaller companion moon collided with the moon early in Earth’s history included stories from National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and Science Friday, BBC Radio, ABC Radio (Australia), Voice of America, AP Radio, Coast to Coast (syndicated AM radio show), and KION TV; Time, New…
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UCSC’s annual literary celebration of Charles Dickens ‘full to bursting’ this summer
In 2005, San Francisco Chronicle book critic David Kipen observed that the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz “may just be literary California’s best-kept secret. “Now in 2011, that secret is definitely out.
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Proposed Revisions to Staff Policy 60-Layoff and Reduction in Time
The University invites your comments regarding the proposed revisions to Staff Policy 60- Layoff and Reduction in Time from Professional and Support Staff Career Positions.
