Category: 60th

The Center for Nonlinear Science is established.

For the first time since 1971, UC Santa Cruz stops accepting freshman applications at the end of the traditional monthlong filing period.

The Baskin Center for Computer Engineering and Information Sciences, named for Santa Cruz philanthropist Jack Baskin, is dedicated in a newly remodeled, two-story wing of the Applied Sciences Building.

The Institute of Tectonics is established.

During a meeting at UC Santa Cruz, UC Regents vote to divest of South Africa investments by the end of 1990.

UCSC awards more than 1,500 degrees in year-end commencement exercises