Campus News
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NPR features poetry by Professor Emeritus David Swanger
Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor recently read Professor Emeritus David Swanger’s poem, “Patriarch at the Beach,” on National Public Radio’s Writers’ Almanac program. The poem is from Swanger’s latest book, Wayne’s College of Beauty, which won the 2005 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry from MkBk Press. Produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by…
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UCSC receives $367,000 gift to establish endowed chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of $367,000 from Hardit and Harbhajan K. Singh, through the Sikh Foundation, to fund an endowed chair in Sikh and Punjabi studies in the History Department. The Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies, established in memory of the donors’ son, will…
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National report on space program recommends missions to study dark energy and black holes
UCSC physics professor Joel Primack had some good news for his colleagues when he gave a briefing on campus last week to outline the findings of a national report on NASA’s space science programs.
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Exhibition to feature art professors Lewis Watts and Norman Locks
Chronotopographies: Remembering in Digital, an exhibition featuring photographic works digitally rendered by UCSC art professors Lewis Watts and Norman Locks, will be on display at the Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street in downtown Santa Cruz, through October 28. Watts has been working professionally as a photographer, archivist, and curator since 1974, focusing on communities…
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UCSC research funding tops $100 million in 2006-07
UCSC researchers attracted $111 million in external grants and contracts to the campus in the 2006-07 fiscal year. This marks the second year in a row that research funding at UCSC has exceeded $100 million.
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Educators gather Sept. 21 at UCSC for summit on the future of education in the Monterey Bay region
Educators and policy makers from Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties will gather on Friday, September 21, for a one-day summit on the future of education in the Monterey Bay region.
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Chemical Screening Center at UCSC will search for new drugs
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will shift their search for potential drugs into high gear on September 21, when a new Chemical Screening Center opens for business.
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Extra gene copies were enough to make early humans’ mouths water
To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That’s one interpretation of a discovery, published online September 9 in Nature Genetics, which indicates that humans carry extra copies of the salivary amylase gene.
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UC Santa Cruz: An essay by a proud alumnus
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Michael Gould, a 1976 graduate of Merrill College, wrote the following essay in September 2007 as a tribute to his alma mater: UC Santa Cruz takes your breath away. This place, this magical estate, this serene redwood forest perched like a guardian angel watching over the blue crescent of the Monterey…
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UC Santa Cruz names new director of Arts & Lectures
Jeanette Pilak has been selected to become the new director of the Arts & Lectures program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, effective October 1, 2007. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Pilak has an extensive background in arts management that spans both coasts. She became the first festival manager at the John F. Kennedy…
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Electronic W-2 Forms
For tax year 2007, UC employees now have the option of receiving their W-2 forms electronically rather than mailed to them as a paper statement. Get it faster, save a tree, and feel more secure about the protection of your personal tax information. Instructions for signing up to receive your tax year 2007 W-2 form…
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Major gift supports crucial piece of Automated Planet Finder
The Gloria and Kenneth Levy Foundation has donated $600,000 to fund an innovative spectrometer for the Automated Planet Finder at UC’s Lick Observatory.