Campus News
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Wilderness First Aid offered by UCSC Recreation
Wilderness First Aid, a fast paced, hands-on, two-day course covering a wide range of wilderness medicine topics, is being offered this spring through UCSC Recreation. The course is cosponsored by the Wilderness Medicine Institute of the National Outdoor
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Important policies on Sexual Harassment
I would like to bring to your attention two very important policies and direct you to their location on the UCSC web site. The UC Policy on Sexual Harassment and the UCSC Policy on Sexual Assault, as well as Procedures For Reports of Sexual Assault(s) and Sexual Harassment are located at http://www2.ucsc.edu/title9-sh/. In addition, brochures…
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Scientists obtain first direct observations of protein-synthesis mechanism
Research by UCSC molecular biologist Harry Noller and his collaborators has led to the first direct observations of the mechanism for protein synthesis in living cells.
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Run with the Slugs on April 19
The 9th annual UCSC Slug Run will take place at the East Fields on Saturday, April 19.
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Sammy the Slug in national spotlight
Our Sammy the Slug mascot, nationally ranked in a recent ESPN poll (http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1933), will be showcased on CBS’s popular Sunday Morning show this weekend as part of the network’s promotion of the Final Four men’s basketball championships. Bill Geist, a CBS correspondent and regular on the show, will wear our slug suit (on loan from…
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Hatchery fish outnumber wild chinook salmon in troubled fall run
A recent study indicates that wild salmon may account for just 10 percent of California’s fall-run chinook salmon population, while the vast majority of the fish come from hatcheries.
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Meet George Blumenthal: UCSC’s 10th chancellor is focused on the campus’s future
In a recent conversation, George Blumenthal looks to the future and reflects on UCSC’s past and its evolution as a nationally ranked university. His inauguration is set for June 6.
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McHenry Library moves its way into the 21st century
Over spring break, University Librarian Virginia Steel oversaw the move of materials from the original McHenry Library into the library’s recently opened new addition.
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Maximum Fun: Alum Jesse Thorn woos young listeners with a new brand of radio show
Jesse Thorn (B.A. American studies, Porter ’03) has gone national with “The Sound of Young America,” which first aired at UCSC in 1999.
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Engineering Hope: UCSC bioelectronics engineer designs prostheses that promise to change lives
Wentai Liu is an electronics wizard whose work is enabling the development of devices once found only in the realm of science fiction–miniaturized electronic implants to restore vision, movement, and other biological functions lost to disease or injury.
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Rx for Health Care: Graduates of UCSC’s innovative health sciences program are good medicine for California’s ailing health-care system
Diego Inzunza grabbed a laptop on his way past the laboratory inside Plazita Medical Clinic, where jaunty Mexican music danced from a large speaker on the counter. Holding the computer open like a clamshell in one hand, the 21-year-old UC Santa Cruz stude
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Chancellor sends spring message to UCSC community
In a video message to kick off the spring quarter, Chancellor George Blumenthal highlights recent achievements at UC Santa Cruz, including the fact that UCSC professors won two of 15 UC President’s Research Fellowships in the Humanities. The chancellor also hails the first-place trophy four UCSC engineering students won in a recent national robotics competition…