Campus News
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In Memoriam: Bruce Lane
With grieving and sorrow, I write to inform the UC Santa Cruz campus community of the passing of my father, Bruce Lane. Dad worked for UC Santa Cruz for 27 years as a Project Architect, Educational Facilities Planner, and Director of Capital Planning. He was 82 and passed away on October 4, 2008. Dad would…
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Register to vote by October 20
Monday, October 20 is the deadline to complete a voter registration card and return it to the Santa Cruz County Clerk/Elections Department.
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The Dead live on at UCSC
This past April, the Grateful Dead announced that it would donate its vast and colorful archives to a campus that opened the same year the collection was started.
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The $700,000 challenge
UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $700,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation toward the construction and modernization of McHenry Library. In order to receive the funds, however, the library must raise $3.5 million by October 1, 2009.
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Frans Lanting’s Origins to be performed at inauguration of Large Hadron Collider
Origins, a new multimedia production by UCSC Foundation Trustee Frans Lanting, will be performed October 21 at the inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland.
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How children learn to ‘think like scientists’ is focus of prof’s work at Children’s Discovery Museum
Psychology professor Maureen Callanan is partnering with Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose to explore the ways kids learn to “think like scientists.”
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International education brings EAP students together
More than 70 domestic and international UCSC Education Abroad Program students recently attended the second annual International Friends “Meet and Greet” event. Offered through the UCSC Office of International Education (OIE), this innovative program matches EAP alumni (domestic students returning from participating in EAP studies abroad) with EAP reciprocity students (incoming international students studying at…
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UCOP releases 2009 health insurance rates
2009 health insurance rates have been released by the UC Office of the President.
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A library for the 21st century: McHenry turns a page
As a generation born into the information age hits the books–or the Internet–campus libraries are adapting to the needs of a new, hyperconnected student.
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UCOP web site provides information about market’s impact on benefits and savings programs
Many UC employees and retirees are wondering about the effects of the recent volatility in the financial markets on their UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) benefits and the UC Retirement Savings Program. UC’s Office of the President provides the following information in response to these questions: atyourservice.ucop.edu/news/general/0810-ucrp_financial.html
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Chancellor’s staff forum, Tuesday, October 14
Please join your fellow staff as the Staff Advisory Board hosts the Chancellor’s Staff Forum on Tuesday, October 14 from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m. in the Stevenson Event Center. This is the first Open Staff Forum of the 2008-09 Academic Year. Chancellor Blumenthal will address campus staff by speaking on the following areas: Updates for…
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Four social scientists honored for teaching and research
Four social scientists were honored for teaching and research today (Tuesday, October 7) during the annual fall convocation hosted by the dean of the Division of Social Sciences.