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28 October 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
“America locks up too many people for too many offenses, jamming prisons, ruining families and running up steep taxpayer bills. That’s the party line on mass incarceration heard from social […]
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26 May 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Established at UCSC in 2011, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support substantially the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their […]
21 April 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey
Live Event: Thursday, April 23, 9:00 AM Megan Bang and Phillip Bell will share their research related to developing innovations in science education through community partnerships. Building on the work […]
21 April 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
What are the opportunities and challenges of participatory and community-based work? What value does academic research bring to community partners? What can academic researchers learn from participatory research? And how […]
20 April 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Congratulations to Associate Professor of History Kate Jones, who has been selected as the 2014-15 recipient of the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities. Named in honor of Professor Emeritus […]
17 April 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Alumni returning for Alumni Weekend should get ready to exercise their brains and have some fun at the ever-popular “Teach-Ins,” an academic afternoon that lets Banana Slugs be students once […]
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14 April 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Scholars from different disciplines gather at UCSC in honor of poet and philosopher Gloria Anzaldúa “I knew Gloria Anzaldúa very well, I miss her, I miss her presence in the […]
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2 April 2015 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa — poet, philosopher, and critical scholar — founded, wrote, and encouraged a transformative body of writing and scholarship, with generative influences on critical race, feminist, queer, and decolonizing ways of knowing.
19 January 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Current events, from Ferguson to Paris, challenge us to reach for wisdom and vision: to move beyond reaction to thoughtful reflection, to wrestle information overload into informed understanding, and to reach for both sympathy for multiple perspectives and reasoned, critical response.
22 October 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Pulitzer– and Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison sees an increasing prevalence of evil in literature Writing gives Morrison more than the freedom to imagine worlds beyond her own. Her books […]
8 October 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its first “LASER” talk of the 2014-15 academic year on Tuesday, October 28, at the Digital Arts Research Center. […]
5 August 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor John Jordan today announced an endowment drive to support the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz. Jordan, director and co-founder of the Dickens Project, shared […]
17 June 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Alumni business partners find Kickstarter enthusiasm for their creation — a programmable desktop 3-D router with a consumer-friendly a price tag. UC Santa Cruz student Bar Smith just wanted to […]
10 June 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Re-entry student Raymundo Reyes, who dropped out of high school to raise seven siblings, is on to his next chapter—a literature degree from UC Santa Cruz. Raymundo Reyes’s first job […]
One of the highest honors a UC Santa Cruz faculty member can receive is an Excellence in Teaching Award given each spring by the Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching. The […]
UC Santa Cruz faculty members Patty Gallagher (Theater Arts), Gary Young (Literature) and Shelley Stamp (Film and Digital Media) have been chosen as the three inaugural recipients of the Pavel […]
29 May 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Congratulations to UC Santa Cruz’s Class of 2014! Ideally, we’d profile every one of UCSC’s talented, passionate, and determined graduates—but the three students featured here serve as excellent ambassadors for […]
20 May 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz’s hard-working undergraduates deserve recognition for their vision and determination, whether they’re cobbling robots together, studying planets and ecosystems, setting up high-tech interactive exhibits or staging plays. Student […]
28 April 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Undergraduate and graduate student projects share the limelight as education, research, ingenuity, and facing the future are highlighted. Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta fired up a crowd of 275 […]
11 April 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Leon Panetta, former CIA director and secretary of defense, will address whether America is in renaissance or decline during Launch! A celebration of the UCSC student experience featuring a dinner […]
10 April 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Emeritus history professor Edmund “Terry” Burke III, director of the UCSC Center for World History, will deliver the 2014 Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture on Thursday, April 17, at the UCSC […]
31 March 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Banana Slugs returning to campus for Alumni Weekend 2014 can learn about the secrets of forensic pathology, evolutionary genetics, and spymasters of Word War II without having to worry about […]
20 March 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young has received the 2014 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (PSA). The award is given for a selection of […]
13 January 2014 / 19 February 2018 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
It’s been a hot week in Hollywood for two former students at UC Santa Cruz. Last night, former Saturday Night Live cast member—and now TV star–Andy Samberg picked up a […]