Jul 20, 2020 | Awards & Funding, Faculty
Dear Colleagues: I am pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Physical and Biological Sciences 2019-20 Outstanding Faculty Award. Established in 1993, the award recognizes senate faculty (including teaching professors) who have provided outstanding...
Jul 15, 2020 | Divisional Announcements, Staff
Dear science faculty and staff, Toolkit, our division’s intranet for administrative resources, has a new URL: toolkit.science.ucsc.edu Many of you may have bookmarked the old Toolkit URL (dev-pbsci-intranet.pantheonsite.io), which now prompts a username and password....
Jul 9, 2020 | Divisional Announcements
Dear UCSC Research Community, The safety of our research community remains our top priority as we continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic, and at the same time all of us are eager to move forward with the ramp-up of on-campus research. With all of that in mind...
Jul 9, 2020 | From the Dean
Update: We have listened to your feedback and made the staff town hall feedback survey anonymous. If you haven’t already completed the survey, please do. We would like your candid feedback to help improve our next staff town hall. For those of you who have...
Jul 7, 2020 | From the Dean
I want to thank all of you who participated in the first UC Santa Cruz Science Staff Town Hall on July 1. It was great to see so many familiar and new faces. I hope you found the event interesting and worthwhile. The town hall was organized by the dean’s office to...
Jun 26, 2020 | From the Dean
Dear UC Santa Cruz Science Staff, I hope you will join me for our first divisional staff town hall on Wednesday, July 1 from 9-10 a.m. via Zoom. We have prepared a short presentation addressing some of the most pressing questions we received in the staff survey that...
Jun 22, 2020 | From the Dean
Dear UC Santa Cruz Science Research Community, As we enter our third week of slowly reopening our research spaces, we want to remind you of the importance of following campus rules and policies in place at this time. Less than three weeks into this initial phase of...
Jun 15, 2020 | From the Dean
With a heavy heart, I write to share the news that Maria Kerschen, who retired as assistant dean of planning and resource management from the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences just three years ago, passed away on May 22 in Eugene, Oregon. Maria was...
Jun 8, 2020 | From the Dean
Dear faculty, staff, and graduate students of the division, The last two weeks have been hard for our community and the nation. The anti-black violence that claimed the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery is heartbreaking, dispiriting, and...
Apr 24, 2020 | From the Dean
Dear Friends of UC Santa Cruz Science, Late winter rains kept the Central Coast of California out of drought and unleashed our flora (watch the UCSC Minute). Spring is definitely on. The beautiful days have created a bit of emotional dissonance for our Banana Slug...
