Campus News
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New edition of ‘Natural History’ is a love letter to campus
After nearly 25 years, a new edition of The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus was released this month. The book is lovingly assembled and packed with easily digestible information and more than 125 photos, drawings, diagrams, and maps.
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Emergency web site has information on SC Mountains fire
The campus’s emergency web page (emergency.ucsc.edu) has updated information on this morning’s fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The County of Santa Cruz has proclaimed the Existence of a Local Emergency.
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VETS program aims to help veterans returning to the classroom
Veterans Education Team Support (VETS), a program launching this spring and run by Services for Transfer and Re-Entry Students (STARS), is for veterans returning to school.
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School kids take a field trip to UCSC
Sixty local second-graders visited UCSC on May 22 as part of College Nine and College Ten’s Service-Learning program.
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Santa Cruz Mountains Fire Information
In response to today’s fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, campus staff have added road and other information to the campus’s Emergency management web site http://emergency.ucsc.edu). The site also contains links to local government information as well as local and regional media sites containing coverage of the fire. Please stay informed by visiting that site.…
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UC Santa Cruz awarded $700,000 challenge grant from Kresge Foundation for McHenry Library construction
UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $700,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation toward the construction and modernization of McHenry Library.
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UCSC grad students contribute ‘Bureau of Disruptions’ exhibit to San Jose global digital arts festival
Fourteen graduate students from UC Santa Cruz’s innovative Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program (DANM) will exhibit their work at the “2nd Biennial O1SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge,” June 4-8 in San Jose. UCSC’s “Bureau of Disruptions” exhibit will join more than 100 other projects on display throughout the parks, museums,…
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Peregrine falcons at San Jose City Hall draw crowds online
Wildlife biologist Glenn Stewart is both pleased and amused at the huge popularity of the webcams he has helped set up to allow people to watch peregrine falcons in action.
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Staff Appreciation BBQ reminder and update: Wednesday, May 28th
Please join the Staff Advisory Board and Chancellor George Blumenthal for the Staff Appreciation BBQ on Wednesday, May 28th from 11:30-1:30 p.m. on the East Field (OPERS). This is an opportunity to express appreciation for the great work staff contributes to the campus throughout the year. The BBQ is an outdoor event and shade tents…
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UC Santa Cruz research team earns NASA award
The outstanding performance of the University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) will soon be recognized with a prestigious NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award.
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Inauguration will celebrate campus history, future
The pace of preparations quickened as the inauguration of George Blumenthal as UC Santa Cruz’s 10th chancellor approached. Designed as a celebration of the campus’s achievements and its future, the inauguration is scheduled for 10 a.m. June 6 on the East
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Geographer Jeff Bury studies human impacts of climate change in central Andes
For residents of Peru’s remote villages high in the Andes mountains, climate change is right outside the back door.