Campus News
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Campus braces for more cuts
Mid-year budget cuts, recently announced by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, will force UC Santa Cruz to make even more reductions in operations than it already had planned after lawmakers slashed spending for UC in the initial state budget.
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In Memoriam: Maria (Blanca) Frausto
UCSC Dining regretfully announces the tragic loss of one of its longtime and highly valued employees. On Saturday morning, November 8, at approximately 7 a.m., Maria (Blanca) Frausto died in an automobile accident while on her way to bury her recently deceased mother in Mazatlan, Mexico. Her father, also in the car, died as well.…
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Annual Computer Security Reminder
Reminder to increase your awareness of cyber security issues.
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Newest Friends group wants you to be able to see, touch, smell history
UC Santa Cruz’s newest Friends group, Friends of the Cowell Lime Works Historic District, aims to protect historical evidence and significant structures on campus dating from the 19th century.
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Humanities dean receives award in Brussels
Georges Van Den Abbeele, dean of humanities, has been awarded the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal for Social Sciences by the European Academy of Sciences. He received his award on Friday, November 7, in Brussels.
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New Humanities building wins award
Hacker Associates AIA, the architectural firm UCSC collaborated with to create the Humanities buildings, was selected for a Merit Award by the Portland AIA for the campus’s Humanities building complex.
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Princeton awards Madison Medal to astronomer Claire Max
Princeton University will present the James Madison Medal, one of its top honors for alumni, to Claire Max, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz who has developed techniques to enable astronomers to more clearly observe the universe.
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UC President Yudof provides update on retirement plan
President Yudof writes about the UC Retirement Plan.
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Campus provost provides 2008-09 budget update
I am writing to update you on our budget situation. Yesterday, the Governor proposed a series of mid-year state budget cuts and revenue enhancements. The proposed mid-year cut to UC, systemwide, would be $98 million. We do not know what UC Santa Cruz’s share of these proposed cuts would be. Here is what we do…
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UCSC participates in sustainability conference
Two UCSC staff members and one student are scheduled to present papers at the 2nd biennial conference for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The conference was scheduled to begin November 9. Physical Plant’s Jim Dunne and student Louise Huttinger will be presenting on “Greening Operations…
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UCSC in the News
Environmental toxicologist Russ Flegal was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article about mercury pollution.
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Joy and hope greet Obama victory
The campus community greeted news of President-elect Barack Obama’s victory with joy and enthusiasm on Wednesday morning.