Our voices will define the century

Category: 60th

  • No. 9, no. 9, no. 9

    College Nine founded.

  • Orbital motion

    Orbital motion

    While doing research at the University Archives, Anthony Misch, a support astronomer at Lick Observatory, discovers a 400-year-old manuscript penned by Johannes Kepler, one of history’s greatest astronomers.

  • Milestone: 10,000 undergrads

    Undergraduate enrollment at UCSC reaches 10,000 for the first time.

  • Covering the outbreak

    Covering the outbreak

    Alumna Laurie Garrett, who graduated with honors in biology (Merrill ’75), pens a groundbreaking series of articles for Newsday, chronicling the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire. The series wins 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism.

  • Grad students: 1,000 and counting

    Graduate student enrollment reaches 1,000.

  • Pulitzer haul

    Alumnus and Los Angeles Times reporter Hector Tobar wins a Pulitzer for his work as part of a team covering the Los Angeles Riots. Other Pulitzer-winning Slugs are author Laurie Garrett, Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, photographer Annie Wells, and Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza.

  • World of finance

    UCSC’s doctoral program in international economics awards its first Ph.D. The campus’s economics department is often listed among the top 10 worldwide in international finance.

  • Opening the Science Library

    Opening the Science Library

    UC Santa Cruz makes plans to dedicate a new Science Library, with room for 200,000 volumes. The library would later be renamed the Science and Engineering Library.

  • Library’s one-millionth volume

    UC Santa Cruz makes plans to celebrate University Library’s one-millionth volume.

  • Planning for a music hall

    Planning for a music hall

    Plans move ahead for construction on campus of a music facility with 400-seat hall.

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