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January 2003

  • UC Santa Cruz student creates program to help women inmates prepare for life after release

    As a psychology graduate student working with women in the Santa Cruz County Jail, Susan Greene saw women going through the revolving door of the criminal justice system, being picked up, incarcerated, and released only to repeat the cycle again and again. Greene wanted to break the cycle, so she singlehandedly launched Getting Out and…

  • UC Santa Cruz sociologist part of World Affairs Council panel on Nigeria

    Paul Lubeck, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will participate in a panel discussion of women’s role in Nigeria on Wednesday, January 15, in San Francisco. Paul Lubeck joins documentary producers in January 15 discussion of women’s role in Nigeria Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the event…

  • Activist James Lawson Jr. to address King convocation

    The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., a longtime crusader for civil rights and nonviolent solutions throughout the world, will be the keynote speaker at UCSC’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation at 7 p.m. on January 21 at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. Lawson…

  • January 19 memorial service at UC Santa Cruz for Raymond Dasmann

    A public memorial service for Raymond F. Dasmann, professor emeritus of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 19, in the College Eight Dining Hall at UCSC. Dasmann, a founder of international environmentalism, died November 5 of pneumonia at the age of 83. The…

  • Against the odds, local forces unite to preserve open space in California

    Since the 1920s, residents of the Golden State have organized locally to preserve more than 1 million acres of open space–an amount that rivals the 1.3 million acquired during the same period by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Total exceeds 1 million acres, rivaling that acquired by state parks Unlike the ubiquitous forces…

  • UC Santa Cruz engineering school establishes program with Korean telecommunications firm

    Representatives of a major Korean telecommunications company, Korea Telecom, visited the University of California, Santa Cruz, in December to establish a cooperative program that will bring company managers to the UCSC campus to study English, engineering, and economics. The program is sponsored by UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering in conjunction with UCSC Extension and the…

  • Astronomers detect a faint debris trail in the Andromeda galaxy, more evidence of galactic cannibalism

    The discovery of a faint trail of stars in the nearby Andromeda galaxy offers new evidence that large spiral galaxies have grown by gobbling up smaller satellite galaxies. The new findings are being presented on Monday, January 6, by astronomers Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and David Reitzel of UCLA…

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