Campus News
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UCSC Wind Ensemble to perform at Carnegie Hall
The UC Santa Cruz Wind Ensemble is set to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on February 15, 2009.
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UCSC in the News
The mentoring model developed by the New Teacher Center was featured in coverage by the Times Educational Supplement (U.K.).
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Nurturing Change: Nidya Ramirez works to empower those most in need
Alumna Nidya Ramirez feels a responsibility to help people in difficult circumstances –including immigrants, the poor and working class, refugees, children, and abused women.
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Recognizing community service
To Mary Solari, it’s important to help students who really need it and can advance in their careers “with a little bit of help.”
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Not the same old game: Michael Mateas leads the gaming revolution
Michael Mateas, a lead faculty member in UCSC’s hot new computer game design program, predicts that the interactive structure of computer gaming will soon transform media as diverse as movies, visual art, fiction, documentaries, teaching materials, and ev
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Sony’s unexpected gift
Sony employees have established a scholarship program for students majoring in UCSC’s computer game design program.
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Sharing a love of opera: Directors Nicole Paiement and Brian Staufenbiel make student opera sing
Excellence in student opera,” may not be the first thought that comes to mind when people hear “UC Santa Cruz.” But that’s changing almost as rapidly as Don Giovanni’s amorous conquests.
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A path of service: Joshua Karrasch helps a rapidly expanding student population–vets
Joshua Karrasch, a former Navy corpsman who spent a tour of duty treating patients in sweltering field hospitals in Kuwait, helped STARS develop a peer-mentor program for veterans.
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STARS helps uncommon students shine
More than 30 years ago, a group of single mothers at College Eight on the UC Santa Cruz campus got together to help each other with child care and studying. Today, what those single moms began has turned into the Services for Transfer and Re-Entry Student
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Circle of support
Rich and DeAnne Hart founded the Opera Circle, a community support or “Friends” group dedicated to raising community awareness of UCSC’s opera program and also raising funds to support it.
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Real-life heroes: Deutron Kebebew found mentors, then became one
Although Deutron Kebebew’s life turned out to be something like a movie, it was not the one he had imagined.
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Pister’s legacy lives on through scholarships
The Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Awards foster the transfer of accomplished students from regional community colleges to UCSC.