Campus News
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History alum winning acclaim for second feature film
UCSC alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga has followed his award-winning debut film Sin Nombre with Jane Eyre, his own take on the classic 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte.
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Demonstration Advisory Group formed
Provost Helen Shapiro and I are pleased to announce the formation of a Demonstration Advisory Group (DAG) for the UCSC campus.
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Dispo Day April 22, 2011: Retention, Disposition and Secure Destruction
Yes, You Can Throw it Out! (See Time & Place below)
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UCSC in the News
Gary Griggs, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, was featured in a PBS NewsHour story about the vulnerability of the U.S. West Coast to a tsunami.
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Update on budget cuts
Academic deans and other principal officers have submitted detailed plans for how they propose to implement approximately $19 million in budget reductions.
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Alums play hard, work toward “Ultimate Peace”
Slugs helped inspire the nonprofit Ultimate Peace, which is committed to building bridges of friendship and understanding for youth from different social and cultural backgrounds around the world.
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Day by the Bay Celebration
An exciting array of events and activities are planned on campus during UCSC’s upcoming “Day By The Bay” event.
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Library exhibit honors faculty and the books that influenced them
During the month of April, an exhibit in the Science and Engineering Library will recognize UCSC faculty who have attained tenure or received promotion and showcase the books that have influenced them.
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Housing Workshops
The University Relations’ Good Neighbor Initiative Program will be holding two workshop sessions to provide students with information on how to find off-campus housing, important city ordinances and methods of renter advocacy.
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Reading and inspiration: Tobias Wolff at UCSC
Tobias Wolff drew a capacity crowd to the Humanities Lecture Hall on the first night of the 2011 Living Writers series. Wolff read three short stories and regaled the crowd with stories of “binge reading” and his earliest inspirations as an author.
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UCSC shines in survey of senior women in astronomy
The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics has more senior women faculty members than any other astronomy department in the country.