Campus News
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Update from Campus Provost/ Executive Vice Chancellor Kliger
With the first full week of the new term behind us, I’d like to note what an extraordinary beginning it was, and what a normal beginning, too, in many ways. We have thousands of new students starting their academic careers, full of promise and excitement. We have nearly two dozen new faculty members joining us.…
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‘The ground started moving all around me’
When the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck on October 17, 1989, the UCSC campus sustained some damage–but nothing like that of the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in Santa Cruz County.
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Fall events at UCSC
For a complete list of upcoming events this fall, go to UCSC’s Calendar of Events. Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture Edward Luce, Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times Sunday, October 18 UCSC’s ninth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture Memorial Lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall on campus. The featured…
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Cyber security month tip of the week: Don’t be fooled by scams
National Cyber Security Awareness Month “Tip of the Week,” Week 1: Don’t be fooled by scams.
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UCSC in the News
A $615,175 grant awarded to the University Library to help digitize the Grateful Dead Archive received coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, and San Jose Mercury News.
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Loma Prieta led to better assessments of earthquake hazards
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was a wakeup call to the Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Area, which had gone decades without a major earthquake. In the 20 years since then, increasingly sophisticated assessments of earthquake hazards have led to a better understanding of the seismic threat in the Bay Area and throughout California.
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Op-ed from the Staff Advisors to The Regents
The Staff Advisors to The Regents would like to provide you an op-ed piece disseminated to The Regents today entitled “Consultation in the Middle of the Storm – UC Continues Leading the Way.” The UC Regents’ continuing goal is to foster two-way communication between UC staff and the Board. In January 2007, The Regents voted…
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UCSC bioinformatics experts are partners in national cancer genetics project
UCSC researchers will establish a Cancer Genome Data Analysis Center as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a $275 million collaborative project led by NIH.
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Five faculty members win 2009 NSF CAREER awards
Five UCSC faculty members have won NSF CAREER awards in 2009.
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Journalist Edward Luce to discuss India and global warming on October 18 at UCSC
Journalist Edward Luce will discuss India and climate change during the Ninth Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture on October 18.
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Donors rally to support UC Santa Cruz, pushing annual fundraising to $30.5 million
Donors rallied to support UCSC last year, helping boost private fundraising to $30.5 million.
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Fall 2009 welcome from Chancellor George Blumenthal
In a fall video welcome to the UCSC campus community, Chancellor Blumenthal highlights the promise and impact of UC Santa Cruz and discusses challenges and impacts anticipated from state budget cuts.