Campus News
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Environmental studies professor, graduate director receive top Alumni Association awards and April 26 luncheon honors
An agroecologist and a Graduate Division director have been selected to receive the Alumni Association’s highest honors for 2007-08.
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Why does popcorn cost so much at the movies?
Movie theaters are notorious for charging consumers top dollar for concession items such as popcorn, soda, and candy. Are moviegoers just being gouged?
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Doctoral candidate heading to DC after graduation
Lauren Malone will be heading to Washington, D.C., after earning a Ph.D. in economics this spring.
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Award-winning journalist Alexander Stille to be keynote speaker at statewide Italian Studies conference hosted by UCSC
Award-winning author and journalist Alexander Stille will be the keynote speaker at a statewide conference presented by the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies at UC Santa Cruz, February 29-March 1.
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Max M. Levin, former psychology instructor and Crown preceptor, dies at 91
Max M. Levin, a lecturer emeritus of psychology whose ties to the campus go back to 1967, died on Saturday, February 16, in Portland, Oregon. He was 91.
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‘Finding their niche’ is critical to underrepresented student success, study reveals
A new study has produced an unusually intimate portrait of the college experience for UCSC students from underrepresented groups, including those who are among the first in their family to attend college.
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McHenry Library Is Moving!
Construction of the addition to McHenry Library is approaching completion, so I am writing to alert you to changes that will occur in McHenry as we prepare to begin the next phase of the project. The plan is that the entire contents of the existing McHenry Library building will be moved into the addition that…
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Trees planted as McHenry Library addition nears completion
Tree planting began this month around the new reading lawn and garden at McHenry Library as construction of the addition nears completion. Nearly 30 new coast redwoods, coast live oaks, and flowering cherries will be planted.
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Sciences dean donates 357-year-old book to Library’s Special Collections
Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences Stephen Thorsett has donated a first edition of English philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s famous 1651 book, Leviathan, to the UCSC Library’s Special Collections.
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Chancellor Blumenthal appointed to state science/technology council
UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal has been appointed to the California Council on Science and Technology, a group of 30 eminent scientists, engineers, scholars and business leaders from the state’s major public and private research and instructio
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Staff Toolkit makes finding business information easier
The revised Staff Toolkit web site makes it easier to find detailed information on the web on buying, event planning, facilities, finance, people, campus safety and security, technology, and travel.