2009
-
Theater Arts professor Mark Franko to moderate panel on choreographing human rights issues at Lincoln Center
UCSC Theater Arts professor Mark Franko will moderate a roundtable discussion titled “Rights to Move: Choreographing the Human Rights Struggle,” at Lincoln Center on October 10
-
Del Mar screens award-winning documentary by Renee Tajima-Peña on Oct. 19
The award-winning documentary Calavera Highway, produced and directed by Renee Tajima-Peña, will screen on Monday, October 19, at 7 p.m. at the Del Mar Theater in downtown Santa Cruz.
-
Update from Campus Provost/ Executive Vice Chancellor Kliger
With the first full week of the new term behind us, I’d like to note what an extraordinary beginning it was, and what a normal beginning, too, in many ways. We have thousands of new students starting their academic careers, full of promise and excitement. We have nearly two dozen new faculty members joining us.…
-
National Science Foundation One-Day Workshop
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a one-day workshop on our campus on Friday, November 20, 2009. All campus faculty and graduate students who are interested in proposing research projects to the NSF can benefit from attending. Sponsored by Vice Chancellor for Research Bruce Margon and the Division of Social Sciences, it is free…
-
Apply to be a UC System-Wide Committee Representative
As the official voice of the UC students, UCSA needs YOU to represent over 200,000 students on important decision-making committees for the UC system. These committees deal with critical policy issues that affect every student in the UC system (e.g. admissions policy, budget priorities, sustainability practices, diversity issues and technology investments). It is vital that…
-
UCSC arts and science faculty collaborate for exhibition at Sesnon Gallery
“Full Disclosure”–an exhibition opening on October 7 at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery-is built upon the idea of “failure” as a path to learning.
-
An interview with engineering dean Arthur Ramirez
Art Ramirez describes the qualities that make the Baskin School of Engineering uniquely positioned to contribute to the technologies of the 21st century.
-
Antarctic expedition studies survival strategies of Weddell seals
Eight years after her last major expedition to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams is back on the ice.
-
Loma Prieta led to better assessments of earthquake hazards
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was a wakeup call to the Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Area, which had gone decades without a major earthquake. In the 20 years since then, increasingly sophisticated assessments of earthquake hazards have led to a better understanding of the seismic threat in the Bay Area and throughout California.
-
‘The ground started moving all around me’
When the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck on October 17, 1989, the UCSC campus sustained some damage–but nothing like that of the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in Santa Cruz County.