Our voices will define the century

Category: 60th

  • Grateful Slugs

    Grateful Slugs

    The Grateful Dead donates its historic archives to McHenry Library’s Special Collections.

  • Milestone: 15,000 undergrads

    For the first time, undergraduate enrollment reaches 15,000.

  • Starship Trooper goes online

    The complete archive of renowned science fiction author Robert Heinlein made available online. Heinlein donated his archives to the Library’s Special Collections in 1968.

  • Relevant education

    Former U.S. ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson—the husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame—among the featured speakers at “The War on Terror: A Credible Threat,” an educational teach-in at the Quarry Amphitheater.

  • Antarctic landmarks

    Two geological features in Antarctica are named after UCSC biologists—Terrie Bluff and Costa Spur, named in honor of Terrie Williams and Daniel Costa, respectively, professors of ecology and evolutionary biology.

  • Serious gaming

    Faculty in UC Santa Cruz’s Jack Baskin School of Engineering launch a popular computer game design undergraduate major—the first of its kind in the UC system.

  • Astronaut Hall of Fame

    Astronaut Hall of Fame

    Two UCSC alumni inducted into NASA’s Astronaut Hall of Fame: Kathryn Sullivan (Cowell ’73, B.S. Earth sciences), the first American woman to walk in space inducted in May 2004; and Steven Hawley (Ph.D., astronomy and astrophysics ’77), whose five space shuttle flights included the 1990 mission to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, inducted in May…

  • 3,000 degrees

    For the first time, UCSC awards more than 3,000 degrees during an academic year.

  • Perfect 10

    College Ten founded.

  • Computing the genome

    The first draft of the human genome sequence was assembled at UCSC on off-the-shelf Pentium III processors running a software program written in four weeks by graduate student Jim Kent.

Last modified: Aug 23, 2024