Campus News
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Jack Baskin School of Engineering to establish Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics
UCSC has received a $1.5 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to establish the W. M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics.
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UCSC’s housing practices lauded with cover story
UC Santa Cruz is featured on the cover of the January/February issue of Talking Stick; the cover article is on housing assignment best practices.
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Food is the “front line of healing,” says author
Anthropologist Nancy Chen has a simple message for Americans who are obsessed with fad diets: Skip the gimmicks and listen to your grandmother.
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Earned Income Tax Credit Information Act
Based on annual earnings, employees may be eligible to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC) from the federal government.
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UCSC alumnus wins 2009 Sundance directing award for first feature film
First-time director and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga received the award for “Best Director, U.S. Drama,” at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his film Sin Nombre.
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For second consecutive year, undergraduate applications to UC Santa Cruz exceed 30,000
For the second year in a row, more than 30,000 prospective undergraduates have applied to the University of California, Santa Cruz for admission in the upcoming fall quarter.
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Eyewitness to history: The inauguration of Barack Obama
Sociology professor Craig Reinarman was among the throngs who witnessed the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
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UCSC in the News
The Wall Street Journal published a review of a new book by professor of history and literature Nathaniel Deutsch.
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Expression of Ideas
As the winter quarter gets underway, several events planned by students and student organizations will be taking place on campus over the next several weeks and probably well into the spring quarter. These events range from rallies, speakers and marches. UC Santa Cruz is committed to assuring that all persons may exercise the constitutionally protected…
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UCSC climbs to No. 2 on Peace Corps top colleges ranks
The University of California, Santa Cruz rose to second place on the annual list of Peace Corps Top Colleges (for the medium-size school category), its highest ranking since the Peace Corps began releasing its list in 2003.
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Award-winning actress/UCSC alumna to perform “I Am That I Am: Woman, Black”-Jan. 28
Award-winning actress and UCSC alumna Adilah Barnes will perform her one woman show-I Am That I Am: Woman, Black-on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. in the College 9 & 10 Multipurpose Room. Admission is free and open to the public.
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UCSC professor provides academic expertise for unusual San Francisco art exhibition
When the directors of San Francisco’s Museo ItaloAmericano decided to create an exhibit about Italian Jewish life in the age of the Ghetto (16th-19th centuries), the first thing they did was a Google search on the topic. What they found was UC Santa Cruz