More California colleges are planning to require students to get COVID-19 vaccinations. For international students, that often means only vaccines approved by the World Health Organization will be accepted, even though not all students have access to those.
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‘I do expect something unexpected’: Two UCSC scientists set to join NASA mission in Korea
Associate researcher Mikhail Kreslavsky and professor Ian Garrick-Bethell have been selected as two of nine scientists to join the upcoming Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) mission.
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Here’s what UC says about the chances of being plucked from massive waitlists at UCSC, systemwide
Tens of thousands of UC applicants are wait-listed this year amid record applications, and admissions chiefs say forecasting chances of being selected is as uncertain as ever. At UC Santa Cruz, admissions director Michelle Whittingham says she wouldn’t even use waitlists if she didn’t have to. But enrollment prediction — a discipline that aims to meld the science of data analysis with the guesswork of anticipating teenage whims — can be dicey.
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Pioneering UCSC faculty member William T. Doyle dies at 91
Doyle was among the founding faculty members of UC Santa Cruz when the campus opened in 1965 and was largely responsible for the establishment of Long Marine Laboratory.
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Outdoor study space a ‘first step’ for return of students to Cabrillo College’s campus in Watsonville
Cabrillo College’s Watsonville Center has been closed since March 2020. Now, lured by fast WiFi and free printing, students are returning to study there in a sign of a wider reopening that’s hopefully to come.
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Town-gown tension: Local governments launch petition calling on UCSC to abide by 5 conditions to add students
The Santa Cruz City-County Task Force on UC Santa Cruz Growth Plans is asking residents to sign a petition that calling for certain parameters for student expansion. Here’s how it might impact the larger campus growth debate.
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UC Santa Cruz and United Way partner to empower youth through research in local communities
A new partnership between UC Santa Cruz and United Way will support community-engaged research and offer UCSC undergraduates and local youth leaders opportunities to study issues affecting health and wellbeing in surrounding communities.
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UCSC’s Student Housing West hit with second lawsuit as history repeats for long-delayed project
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Cal State and UC systems, UC Santa Cruz included, plan to require COVID-19 vaccinations in fall
The directive is the largest of its kind in U.S. higher education and would likely take effect this fall after the FDA formally approves the vaccines.
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UCSC’s controversial Student Housing West plan headed to court … again
A coalition of UCSC alumni, faculty and community members known as the East Meadow Action Committee sued the UC Board of Regents in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Thursday, alleging regents’ recent reapproval of the project — called Student Housing West — violates environmental law.