Campus News
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Spring Open Staff Forum with Chancellor Blumenthal
The Staff Advisory Board will host the Spring-quarter Staff “Brown Bag” Open Forum with Chancellor George Blumenthal on Tuesday, May 6, from 12 to 1:15 p.m., in the Stevenson Event Center. This is the final Open Staff Forum with George Blumenthal for the 2007-08 academic year. Please bring your questions and participate in the forum.…
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Grateful Dead to announce partnership with UCSC at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium – Watch press conference
PRESS CONFERENCE-APRIL 24, 2008, 11 a.m. Who: Grateful Dead bandmembers: . Bob Weir . Mickey Hart UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal, plus assorted guests Where: Fillmore Auditorium (Poster Room) (1805 Geary Boulevard, SF–Parking available in the Kabuki Cinema lot at the intersection of Geary and Fillmore) Can’t attend? Watch the press conference streamed live…
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Anthropologist Erin Vogel featured on Animal Planet May 6
Field work in Borneo can be hot, sweaty work. Just ask the Animal Planet crew that filmed anthropology’s Erin Vogel for a program scheduled to air Tuesday, May 6.
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Chancellor receptions bring UCSC to prospective students
More than 2,100 prospective students and their guests got a taste of UC Santa Cruz at four Chancellor’s receptions held in late March and April in southern and northern California.
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2007 Campus Sustainability Assessment released
Last year we announced the launch of UCSC’s first Campus Sustainability Assessment. We are now pleased to announce its completion. To download the report, please visit the campus sustainability website: http://sustainability.ucsc.edu The report helps us and the larger community better understand our sustainability related successes and identifies areas for improvement in sustainability efforts. It also…
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Vigorous dissent, job-seeking coexist at campus career fair
Protestors at Tuesday’s job fair at the University Center maintained a noisy presence, while job seekers filing into the event to check out their options said they understood the demonstrators’ right to have their say.
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Americans willing to sacrifice to reduce gap between rich and poor, doctoral candidate finds
Contrary to the stereotype of Americans as self-interested individualists, the majority care more about growing economic inequality than we’ve been led to expect, and many would sacrifice personal gain for the well-being of others, according to research b
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UCSC celebrates feminist scholarship with DVD release of lectures by Bettina Aptheker
Feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker has been teaching her acclaimed Introduction to Feminisms class at UCSC for the past 28 years. One of the most influential introductory courses in the field, it has now been captured on DVD through a taping project led by her former students. The new DVD release will be highlighted-along with…
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UCSC computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data
UCSC computer scientists have developed a new solution for storing vast amounts of digital information in a way that allows future generations to recover it.
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Campus hosts Black Brown Roundtable
Activists from within and outside the university came together April 19 to discuss relations among African Americans and Latinos.
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Chancellor’s wife promotes post-graduate education
UC Hastings College of the Law professor Kelly Weisberg–who is also Chancellor Blumenthal’s wife–was on campus last week as a panelist in a workshop introducing potential post-graduate students to law school and advising them on law school admission and
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UCSC students, staff invited to enter inauguration greeting contest
As you know, George Blumenthal will be inaugurated as UCSC’s tenth chancellor in a public ceremony on campus during the morning of Friday, June 6. One of the inaugural traditions we are incorporating into the program is the academic procession by faculty. It is also the very strong desire of our committee–and of the chancellor–to…