UC Regents Committee Approves Tuition Increase Despite Protests
The UC Regents Committee on Long Range Planning voted 7-2 on Wednesday in favor of UC President Janet Napolitano’s plan to increase tuition. The decision met opposition by Gov. Jerry Brown and student Regent Sadia Saifuddin, as well as hundreds of protesters outside of...
Students Rally Against Proposed Tuition Hike
About 200 students gathered in Quarry Plaza Tuesday afternoon to rally against UC President Janet Napolitano’s proposed plan to increase tuition by up to 5 percent over each of the next five years, if state funding continues at expected levels. The rally comes in preparation...
Mending the Military’s Protocol on Sexual Assault
After 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military were reported to have occurred during 2012, a 37 percent increase from 2010, the Secretary of Defense decided to examine the systems in place for handling sexual assault cases. UC Hastings Academic Dean and Provost Elizabeth...
Arts, Humanities and Sciences Interconnected
The new department of computational media in the Baskin School of Engineering aims to fuse research approaches of arts and humanities with those of computer science, creating an interdisciplinary field that evaluates, explores and enables the computer as a medium for innovation.
Parallel Lives of Humans and Stars
Surrounded by darkness, a young astrophysicist throws an apple that bursts into a galaxy, illuminating the stage.This scene is one of many in UC Santa Cruz’s new production “Birth of Stars,” which immerses the audience in an intertwining of science and theater.
Unobserved Phenomena
When asked how he differentiates between being an artist and a professor, Enrique Leal explained that he blends the two. Leal, a new professor in UC Santa Cruz’s art department, is now teaching Introduction to Print Media and a lithography class.
A Day of Remembrance, Culture and Celebration
by Pamela Avila and Georgina Sandoval Death carries with it connotations of finality, darkness and mourning. However, Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) breaks the melancholy mold of death as it transforms it into a celebration of the life and legacy of...
Reimagining Gaming as an Expressive Art
The arrival of a prominent figure in the gaming industry is poised to influence the way UC Santa Cruz students perceive the intersection of game design and art. As of spring 2015, Robin Hunicke will begin teaching at UCSC as an associate professor of art...
Mapping the Mountain Lion
The development of a new collar, termed the SMART collar, will enable researchers to better understand the behavior of mountain lions in the wild. After five years of developing the collar, researchers at UC Santa Cruz published their findings in the journal Science on Oct....
Calling for a Safe Return
Candles illuminated the night as the community gathered at the Town Clock in downtown Santa Cruz to honor the 43 university students who were kidnapped in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico over a month ago. Signs reading, “They took them alive, alive we want them back” and...