| UC Santa Cruz's Ruby Rich receives San Francisco Film Society honor Arts professor B. Ruby Rich was honored at the San Francisco Film Society’s fifth annual Essential SF event. |
| Lick Observatory plans major upgrade for Shane Telescope UC Santa Cruz received $350,000 in grant and donor funds for an upgrade of the Kast Spectrograph, a crucial instrument for UC astronomers. |
| New fiction by alumna author featured in 'The New Yorker' Writer Elizabeth McKenzie received her B.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 1981 and taught as a Kresge lecturer from 2008 to 2010. |
| Student robotics competition Friday features 'Game of Drones' theme Small autonomous robots built by UC Santa Cruz engineering students will face off in "Game of Drones" competition. |