Campus News
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Message about unsanctioned ‘4/20’ event
In a message to UCSC students, Student Affairs vice chancellor Felicia McGinty describes the challenges that ‘4-20’ creates for the campus—and provides detail about operational changes in effect that afternoon.
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Bioinformatics expert Ed Green awarded Searle Scholars grant
The Searle Scholars Program has awarded a $300,000 research grant to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering.
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Carnival Cruz and Prediction Walk/Run
On Friday, May 13, UCSC Wellness brings a mini-vacation to all students, staff, and faculty via Carnival Cruz and the Prediction Walk/Run.
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UCSC creates new major in robotics engineering
A new major in robotics engineering at UC Santa Cruz is the first of its kind in the UC system.
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SocDoc graduate director wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Renee Tajima-Peña, graduate director of the masters Social Documentation program at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011.
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UCSC in the News
UCSC history alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga (1999) has been receiving media acclaim for his new feature film, Jane Eyre, including articles in USA Today, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Village Voice, salon.com, and more.
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Labor activist to speak on the rise of right-wing populism April 21
Bill Fletcher Jr., a longtime labor activist, will present a free, public lecture, “Right-Wing Populism and the Crisis of Organized Labor,” 4 p.m. Thursday, April 21 in Humanities I, Room 210, at UC Santa Cruz.
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Nuclear policy expert to discuss implications of Fukushima nuclear plant disaster April 19
Daniel Hirsch, a UC Santa Cruz lecturer on nuclear policy, will give a free, public lecture Tuesday, April 19 on the aftermath of the current nuclear plant disaster in Japan.
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UCSC hosts Jewish Maccabiah Day games
Jewish students from from a number of college campuses came to UC Santa Cruz last Sunday (April 10) to compete in the first Maccabiah Day in Northern California.
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Second Rethinking Capitalism conference attracts large audience
The second Rethinking Capitalism conference at UC Santa Cruz April 7-9 attracted attentive audiences – much from the Santa Cruz community – for three days of discussions on the perils facing capitalism and government efforts designed to prop it up.
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Center for Visual and Performance Studies to host conference on Pasolini
On April 29-30, the UCSC Arts Division’s center for Visual and Performance Studies (VPS) will host an international conference titled “Pasolini’s Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship” at the Cowell College Conference Room.
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Professor to create large photographic work for African embassy
The U.S. State Department has commissioned associate art professor Elliot Anderson to create a large-scale photographic work for a new embassy in Zambia, Africa.