UCSC researchers who have tracked pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains for years saw that the big cats started moving closer to, or even into, more densely populated areas within days of shelter-in-place orders taking effect last year.
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Graduate student researchers at University of California seek union representation
Across the University of California, teaching assistants and tutors are unionized, but graduate student researchers are not. That could soon change after organizers filed more than 10,000 signed union authorization cards with the California Public Employment Relations Board last month.
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From groundskeeper to graduate: Katharina Pierini takes scenic route to UCSC degree
Katharina Pierini first enrolled at UC Santa Cruz in 1994 before life drew her away from her studies. Now a groundskeeper at the university, she is earning her bachelor’s degree this weekend — completing a path she set out on 27 years ago.
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UCSC grad student’s video game makes ‘speech magic’ for children with cleft palate
Jared Duval and the team behind SpokeIt are harnessing language software to provide speech therapy for children with cleft lip or cleft palate with an accessible game coming soon to Apple devices.
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His very own ‘Tour de cello’: Wistful over the lost year, UCSC senior on a graduation serenade mission
UC Santa Cruz anthropology and politics major Ross Piscitello is graduating next week on his way to law school. But first he’s making a final tour of the campus, cello in tow, performing at each residential college in the order in which they were built.
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Another UC strike looming? Clouds gather at UCSC, elsewhere as lecturers authorize walkout
Nearing an impasse with the University of California system over wages and job security, non-tenured lecturers could go on strike within two to three months — even as UC Santa Cruz and other schools are set to return to in-person classes.
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‘Their own intersection of pandemics’: Oral historians reflect on stories from UCSC’s year of crisis
Oral history project “The Empty Year” preserves the firsthand accounts of 22 students and staff at UC Santa Cruz who — from near or far — navigated the successive crises the campus faced in 2020.
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A bold plan for UC: Cut share of out-of-state students by half amid huge California demand
As the University of California confronts record demand for admission, lawmakers are considering a plan to cut in half the share of nonresident students to make more room for locals.
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UC weighs limited tuition increase for fall 2022
The University of California is weighing a limited tuition increase for fall 2022, saying it will help raise more financial aid and stabilize campuses, but student leaders are adamantly opposed.
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UC data breach results in exposure of personal information
Data possibly including Social Security numbers and financial information belonging to University of California students, staff and retirees has been posted on the internet after a December security breach that targeted the UC system’s file transfer appliance, the UC president wrote in an update Wednesday.