TuesdayNewsdayVol. 8 - Issue 34 - May 17, 2022 | ![UC Santa Cruz](/tuesday-newsday/images/tn-uc-santa-cruz.png) |
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![](/2022/04/birds-hifi-for-tn.png) The research team is creating continent-wide maps of bird habitat connectivity in South America, including the slaty-crowned antpitta and green jay. |
Computer Science and Engineering Professor Luca de Alfaro and Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, assistant professor of environmental studies, have received a $60,000 Google Research Scholar award for a new collaboration to use machine learning models to create continent-wide maps of bird habitat connectivity for conservation purposes. |
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![Welcoming our new vice chancellor](/2022/05/images/ajb-portrait-250px.jpg) | By Chancellor Cynthia Larive Akirah J. Bradley-Armstrong, our new Vice Chancellor for the Division of Student Affairs and Success, has officially joined UC Santa Cruz.
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![Former UCSC Chancellor Karl S. Pister dies at 96](/tuesday-newsday/2022/may-17/images/karl-pister-250.jpg) | Former UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Karl S. Pister, who devoted more than 70 years to the University of California, died May 14 at his Walnut Creek home. |
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![CRES department launches during a global reckoning](/2022/05/images/nick-mitchell-teaching-500px1.jpg) | Critical Race and Ethnic Studies was introduced as a degree program in 2014 and with rapid growth and advocacy gained departmental status in 2021. |
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![New global and community health majors debut in fall](/2022/clinic-400.jpg) | UC Santa Cruz students who want to build a future with better, more equitable health outcomes will have the option to declare one of two new global and community health majors, starting in fall. |
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![Steve Blank to speak at first Entrepreneurial Day](/tuesday-newsday/2022/may-17/images/steve-blank-250.jpg) | The first annual Entrepreneurial Day at UC Santa Cruz May 21 will feature a fireside chat with Steve Blank, the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. |
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![New class explores creative economy careers](/2022/creative-economies.jpg) | A new arts division class, Careers in the Creative Economy, introduces students to an array of creative professionals to help them prepare for arts careers. |
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