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University of California, Santa Cruz

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The University of California, Santa Cruz, also called UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, and one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. Its main campus lies on 2,001 acres of forested hills overlooking Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Founded in 1965, it is a collegiate university with ten residential colleges, established as a variation of the Oxbridge system. It also holds administrative control of the Lick Observatory near San Jose and the Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

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The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States.
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Founded in 1965, UC Santa Cruz is a collegiate university, using a residential college system consisting of ten small colleges that were established as a variation of the Oxbridge university system.
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He is the director of the Center for Supernova Research at University of California, Santa Cruz.
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