Campus adds two new majors, a minor and a program to its academia across multiple divisions. Students can now declare a robotics engineering or network and digital technology major or dance minor and take a Sikh and Punjabi Studies course.

In response to increasing student interest, UCSC’s computer engineering department is creating a new major in robotic engineering, set to debut in fall 2011. Over the past three years, engineering faced $1.5 million in budget cuts and is looking at an additional $800,000 in cuts this year.

This week in news features a report on sexual battery allegations against UC student regent Jesse Cheng, a $1 million donation for the Baskin School of Engineering and accolades for an alumna journalist.

The 2010 Global Game Jam, an annual indie game competition that challenges teams from across the nation to develop an innovative game in just 48 hours, is going on right now. Yes, like right now.