Campus News
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Cowell College Provosts announce memorial for Sergio Zamora
We are saddened at the death of Cowell student Sergio Zamora, who passed away at his home on April 9. Sergio entered Cowell as a first-year student in the fall of 2007 and had taken a leave of absence for winter quarter due to serious illness. Friends and teachers of Sergio are invited to a…
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Grateful Dead Archives Given to UCSC
It is a thrill to write to tell you that the surviving members of the iconic rock ‘n’ roll band, the Grateful Dead, have selected the UCSC Library as the permanent home for their substantial archive of materials documenting the band’s history. The collection will be the largest donation ever made to the library’s Special…
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Grateful Dead donates archives to UC Santa Cruz
At a press conference in San Francisco on April 24, members of the Grateful Dead announced that the band will donate its archives to the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Films by four UC Santa Cruz students featured during Reel Work Film Festival
Films about the immigrant experience and last fall’s writers’ strike are among the works by four UC Santa Cruz students that will be screened during the seventh annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival, which takes place
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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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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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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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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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About the 4/20 event
— This is an unsanctioned event on our campus, and we are not happy that UCSC is one of the campuses on which it takes place. Last week, our Student Affairs Vice Chancellor sent the following message to all students reiterating that point: messages.ucsc.edu/text.asp?pid=2126 — Since the event is based on the consumption of an…
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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…
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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