Campus News
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Awards honor ‘excellence through diversity’
Efforts promoting a diverse and inclusive environment have been recognized with the UC Santa Cruz Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Excellence Through Diversity awards. Acting Chancellor Martin M. Chemers presented awards June 10 to the following units and individuals providing programs, courses, activities, and one-on-one mentoring that put into practice UCSC’s Principles of Community: . Chicano/Latino…
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UCSC scientist leads expedition to establish seafloor observatories
An international team of scientists will investigate how water flows through rock formations beneath the seafloor during an eight-week expedition this summer to the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of British Columbia. It will be the first expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an ambitious new international…
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High-profile film industry guests visit UC Santa Cruz
Hollywood film director Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Election), actress Sandra Oh (Under the Tuscan Sun, Arli$$, Double Happiness), and groundbreaking new Asian American director Justin Lin have each paid a visit to UC Santa Cruz in the past two months as guests of the campus Film and Digital Media Department. Lin, voted one of Variety’s…
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Six faculty members named to provost positions at UC Santa Cruz
Six faculty members are being either appointed or reappointed to positions as college provosts, Lynda J. Goff, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at UC Santa Cruz, has announced. “These college provosts are fundamental to the character of UCSC,” Goff said, “A provost is the academic head of the college and is an important…
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Alumnus Kent Nagano selects new transcription by UC Santa Cruz arts dean to open annual Ojai Music Festival
The San Francisco-based choral group Chanticleer gave the premiere performance of UCSC Arts Division dean and professor of music Edward Houghton’s new transcription of Johannes Ockeghem’s, Missa Ecce ancilla domini, at the opening concert of the Ojai Music Festival on June 3. Renowned conductor and UC Santa Cruz alum Kent Nagano–the music director of the…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Bio industry group from Russia and U.S. State Department will visit UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, June 10
A delegation of Russian scientists working through the U.S. State Department’s BioIndustry Initiative will participate in a full-day program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Thursday, June 10. Reporters are invited to attend the introductory remarks and the symposium. The event will begin with coffee and introductory remarks in the Thimann Courtyard (between…
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Long Marine Lab’s annual ‘Whale of an Auction’ set for Friday, June 18
The Friends of Long Marine Lab will hold a “Whale of an Auction,” the group’s popular annual fundraiser, on Friday, June 18. The event will take place in the Porter College Dining Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus, starting at 6 p.m. In addition to both live and silent auctions, the evening includes a…
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Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen to address 2004 graduates at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering commencement; other UCSC celebrations begin on Thursday
Bruce Chizen, president and CEO of Adobe Systems, Incorporated, will be the keynote speaker this year at the commencement exercises for UC Santa Cruz’s Baskin School of Engineering. The event will take place on Sunday, June 13, at 3:30 p.m. at the Lower West Field, Oakes College, on the UCSC campus. In addition to the…
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Excellence in Teaching Award winners announced
Eight faculty members have received 2003-04 Excellence in Teaching Awards from the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching. Given each spring, the awards honor those who have demonstrated exemplary and inspiring teaching. Nominations are submitted by students, and the committee also reads a statement on teaching written by the nominee, as well as a letter from…
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Fourth in a series of LRDP public workshops planned for June 9
UC Santa Cruz will hold a fourth public workshop in June as part of a multiyear effort to update its Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), a revision that is expected to guide the campus’s physical development through the year 2020. The public workshop on Wednesday, June 9, will take place from 6 to 9 p.m.…
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Undergrad’s research finds striking similarity between Vietnam War and Iraq conflict
The Vietnam War was never mentioned at all during history major Martin Smith’s high school days in Kingsport, Tennessee–a town roughly the size of Santa Cruz. But by doing research at UCSC on that conflict during the midst of recent intense media coverage of the war in Iraq, he has discovered remarkable similarities between the…