Campus News

  • Preview Days 2010

    Preview Day is the annual campus open house to connect prospective students and their families with UCSC faculty, staff and students. The event is an important recruitment activity and provides an opportunity for participants to learn about UCSC. A few of our key messages this year will focus on access to our outstanding faculty, the…

  • Jerry Nelson receives Kavli Prize at ceremony in Oslo, Norway

    Jerry Nelson receives Kavli Prize at ceremony in Oslo, Norway

    UC Santa Cruz astronomer Jerry Nelson received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics at a ceremony on Tuesday, September 7, in Oslo, Norway.

  • ‘Slow light’ on a chip holds promise for optical communications

    ‘Slow light’ on a chip holds promise for optical communications

    A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200.

  • Professor wins prestigious fellowship for education research

    Professor wins prestigious fellowship for education research

    George Bunch, an assistant professor of education at UC Santa Cruz, has won a prestigious fellowship to study the language demands faced by English learners in community college.

  • In Memoriam: George Hitchcock

    In Memoriam: George Hitchcock

    George Hitchcock, poet, painter, publisher, and UCSC lecturer emeritus in Creative Writing (Literature), died on August 27 at the age of 96.

  • Astronomer Sandra Faber profiled on KTEH

    Astronomer Sandra Faber profiled on KTEH

    KTEH, the San Jose public television station, profiles astronomer Sandra Faber in a new episode of the program “This Is Us” that will air on September 8.

  • UC Santa Cruz professor one of top academic experts on Honduras

    UC Santa Cruz professor one of top academic experts on Honduras

    In late June, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank traveled to Honduras to observe the one-year anniversary of the country’s 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya. Frank is one of the top academic experts on Honduras in the United States

  • UCSC launches new web site

    UC Santa Cruz in late August launched a newly designed campus home page and a large number of related upper-level web pages. The structure and design of these pages reflect input from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and others. This publication of these new pages is part of a comprehensive web improvement program, co-led by the campus’s University…

  • UCSC hosts science conference for girls on Saturday, October 9

    UCSC hosts science conference for girls on Saturday, October 9

    The 10th annual UCSC Expanding Your Horizons Conference for high school girls will take place on Saturday, October 9.

  • Our University – Post-Employment Benefits Recommendations

    Read about the Post-Employment Benefits Task Force recommendations released last week.  This special issue of Our University includes:  * An overview of the task force recommendations  * A comparison of UCRP contributions to those of other employers  * Announcement of a September 29 systemwide web-based town hall meeting, and more. Our University is available at:…

  • Local group funds UCSC cancer researchers

    Local group funds UCSC cancer researchers

    The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group, a local charity supporting cancer research and patient care, has awarded grants of $10,000 each to three researchers at UCSC.

  • Newly designed campus website

    Late this evening, a newly designed campus web home page and related secondary pages, supported by a new content management system, are scheduled to go live. The structure and design of these pages reflect input from academic and staff personnel; students; alumni; and others. This is part of an ongoing comprehensive web improvement program, commissioned…

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