Campus News
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UCSC signs cooperative agreement with Korean University
Chancellor Blumenthal signed an academic cooperation agreement with representatives of a Korean Buddhist University that calls for the reciprocal exchange of faculty, staff, and students; joint research projects; and the exchange of academic publications
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UCSC in the News
UCSC in the News is a weekly column summarizing prominent media placements UCSC faculty, staff, and students have received.
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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.
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Past greenhouse warming events provide clues to what the future may hold
Scientists studying an episode of extreme global warming in Earth’s past are piecing together an increasingly detailed picture of its causes and consequences.
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Earth scientist James Zachos elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
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Staff invited to attend Women@Work Retreat
The 2008 Women@Work Retreat will be held April 24-25 at St. Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista; staff may apply now to attend.
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CEMELA hosts research symposium at UCSC Inn
The Center for the Mathematics Education of Latinos/as (CEMELA) recently hosted a research symposium that attracted more than 60 participants from four states.
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Animated tutors help remedial readers, language learners, autistic children
Tools developed by researchers exploring language and speech comprehension can become powerful aids for remedial readers, children with language challenges, and anyone learning a second language, according to psychology professor Dominic Massaro of the Un
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Who is Sammy Slug? A look behind the yellow veil
Inside, Sammy the Slug is just like you and me. Human, that is. The role of UCSC’s beloved mascot, the Banana Slug–aka Sammy–has been filled by various students, faculty, and staff.
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UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone
UCSC researchers have received funding from Microsoft Research to develop a virtual speech therapist, accessible on a cell phone, to aid stroke survivors in Malaysia.
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Winter Open Staff Forum with Chancellor Blumenthal
The Staff Advisory Board will host the Winter-quarter Staff “Brown Bag” Open Forum with Chancellor George Blumenthal on Wednesday, February 27, from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., in the Stevenson Event Center. This is the second Open Forum since the appointment of George Blumenthal as our new Chancellor. Please bring your questions to ask the Chancellor…
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Important Thumbs Up Award Update, please resubmit nominations!
We regret to announce that due to a technical error, all of the Thumbs Up Awards nominations submitted until late Thursday, February 7th were not saved in the database. We have sent an e-mail to each submitter for which a nomination was received confirming their details. If you submitted AFTER 5:00 on Thursday, February 7th,…