News

2003

  • UC Santa Cruz psychology professor seeks volunteers

    Want to do a good deed and contribute to scientific understanding, too? Researchers in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, need volunteers for a study about thinking and decision making. Participants must be between the ages of 18 and 35 or between the ages of 65 and 80. The study takes…

  • Acclaimed author/journalist to speak at UC Santa Cruz

    Award-winning author and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich will present a free public lecture, Thursday, February 13, at 4 p.m. in Kresge Town Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Ehrenreich will address themes raised in her recent best-selling book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She is the first distinguished visitor to be…

  • Actress/professor to direct award-winning Mexican play at UC Santa Cruz

    Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, a play by one of Mexico’s most vital modern playwrights, has been a huge success story for Mexican theater. Its premiere production earned seven awards from the Mexican Critics Association in 1994, including Best New Play of the Year, and the show was eventually made into an award-winning…

  • Scientists explain formation of stone circles and other strange patterns in northern regions by simple feedback mechanisms and self-organization

    Perfect circles of stones cover the ground in parts of Alaska and the Norwegian islands of Spitsbergen. Elsewhere in the far north, stones form other striking patterns on the ground: polygons, stripes, islands, and labyrinths. No, pranksters are not at work in these remote areas, nor are aliens, elves, or any other outside forces moving…

  • EDITOR’S ADVISORY: Policy brief outlines appeal of Islamic radicals

    As the United States moves closer to war with Iraq, a leading scholar of the Middle East has published a compelling analysis of the conditions that have given rise to Islamic radicalism. The policy brief, “Explaining the Appeal of Islamic Radicals,” identifies the social, economic, and political factors fueling Islamic radicalism, and critiques the Bush…

  • UC Santa Cruz art exhibition to feature distinctive works by new faculty

    The Sesnon Art Gallery at UC Santa Cruz will kick off the new year with Faculty Works: 2003, an exhibition featuring the distinctive work of three new members of the art faculty. This diverse show, running January 15 through February 15, will include contemporary photography, painting, and installation by Melissa Gwyn, Lewis Watts, and Elliot…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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