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Denton was the first openly gay, and at 45, the youngest person to be appointed to be chancellor in the University of California system by UC President Robert Dynes. [4] She succeeded Martin Chemers, who served as acting chancellor following the resignation of M. R. C. Greenwood who became the University of California Provost.
Edmund Emil Kemper III was born in Burbank, California, on December 18, 1948. [4] He was the middle child of three children and the only son born to Clarnell Elizabeth Kemper (née Stage, 1921–1973), a native of Montana, and Edmund Emil Kemper Jr. (1919–1985).
UC Santa Cruz was ranked 129th in the list of Best Global Universities and tied for 82nd in the list of Best National Universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report ' s 2024 rankings. [102] In 2021, UC Santa Cruz was ranked the No. 3 public university in the nation for "making an impact" and No. 4 for promoting social mobility.
Honey Lee Cottrell, lesbian and feminist activist, photographer and filmmaker, died in Santa Cruz [1] Angela Davis, political activist, scholar, and writer; Dorothy Granada, nurse, humanitarian, and peace and social justice activist who resided in Santa Cruz and who won the International Pfeffer Peace Award in 1997 [2] [3] bell hooks, PhD from UCSC
Madyson Middleton was an 8-year-old girl from Santa Cruz, California whose mother reported her missing from their affordable housing apartment complex on July 25, 2015. [1] Middleton had been lured into another apartment by a 15-year-old neighbor where she was strangled, sexually assaulted, and stabbed before being disposed of in a dumpster.
John Linley Frazier (January 26, 1946 – August 13, 2009), also known as The Killer Prophet, was an American mass murderer who killed five people in Santa Cruz County, California. He was the first of three men who would go on killing sprees in Santa Cruz County in the 1970s; [2] he was followed by Herbert Mullin and Edmund Kemper. [3]
Gurdon Woods – sculptor, founding chair of the art department at UC Santa Cruz, 1966–1974 [19] [20] Stanford E. Woosley – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts; member of the NAS (elected 2006) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001) [17]
John R. Lewis College, formerly known as College Ten, is one of the ten residential colleges at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It is on the north side of campus, west of College Nine and north of the Cowell Student Health Center. The theme of its freshman core course is Social Justice and Community.