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2006

  • Library ceremony honors UCSC faculty and the books that influenced them

    The Honored Faculty, Honored Books Program at UC Santa Cruz will hold a ceremony next week in celebration of the bond between the written word and the achievement of scholars. The event recognizes UCSC faculty who have attained tenure or received promotion and showcases the books that have influenced them. The faculty and their selected…

  • 2006 Visiting Professor program under way at UC Santa Cruz

    The UCSC Alumni Association Distinguished Visiting Professor program is offering an eclectic mix of disciplines in 2006. Stanford historian Richard White will speak in February; Johanna Drucker, a renowned book artist and authority on typography and visual art, will visit this spring; and Arielle Saiber, who concentrates on the influence of mathematics on the literary…

  • UCSC conference to reflect on New Orleans after Katrina

    The UCSC Center for Cultural Studies will present a one-day conference, “Reflections on Katrina: Place, Persistence & the Lives of Cities” on Saturday, January 21, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Oakes College, Room 105. The conference is the second of three quarterly events in 2005-06 that are part of the Center for Cultural…

  • History professor finds powerful women’s labor movement in Latin America

    In 2001, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank was asked by the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (US/LEAP), a Chicago nonprofit, to develop a union label for the U.S. banana market. Frank signed on as a consultant and traveled to Central America to attend union workshops and regional conferences. She stayed with…

  • New study highlights role of hit-and-run collisions in the formation of planets, asteroids, and meteorites

    Hit-and-run collisions between embryonic planets during a critical period in the early history of the Solar System may account for some previously unexplained properties of planets, asteroids, and meteorites, according to researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who describe their findings in a paper to appear in the January 12 issue of the…

  • Essays about Hurricane Katrina by Wynton Marsalis and others appear in new book

    The weak federal emergency response to Hurricane Katrina fits a pattern of reduced federal government responsibility for public well-being, according to the editor of a new collection of essays about Katrina. John Brown Childs, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor of the new book Hurricane Katrina: Response and…

  • Large survey of galaxies yields new findings on star formation

    New findings from a large survey of galaxies suggest that star formation is largely driven by the supply of raw materials, rather than by galactic mergers that trigger sudden bursts of star formation. Stars form when clouds of gas and dust collapse under the force of gravity, and the study supports a scenario in which…

  • Universal Pictures to offer free sneak preview of alumna’s new film at UCSC on January 15

    The UCSC Alumni Association will present a free sneak preview of Universal Pictures’ new family movie, Nanny McPhee, starring Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, and Angela Lansbury on Sunday, January 15, at 2 p.m. in the Media Theater on the UCSC campus. The public is invited to attend (however space is limited, and attendees are advised…

  • New University Librarian describes vision for expanded McHenry Library at UC Santa Cruz

    Virginia Steel has her eyes on the future. As UCSC’s new University Librarian, her job is to oversee the operations of the library and manage its considerable assets. In order to do that successfully, she must think about how information is changing in terms of its formats and delivery, and make sure that the library…

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