2011
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Seymour Center recruits volunteers for school programs and exhibit guides
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center is recruiting volunteers to work with the center’s school programs and serve as exhibit guides.
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UC Santa Cruz expert explains origins of political crisis in Nigeria
The car bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria’s capital Aug. 26 is an ominous sign of the increasing militancy of disaffected Muslim youth in Africa’s most populous nation, according to UC Santa Cruz professor Paul M. Lubeck, who spent six weeks this summer conducting research in Kano, Nigeria’s largest city in the predominantly…
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In Memoriam – Dick Pierce
Marine Studies lost good friend Dick Pierce last week. Dick will be missed, but his legacy within the Institute of Marine Sciences will endure.
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UCSC film lecturer Leo Chiang up for Emmy Award in Sept.
Leo Chiang–a lecturer in the Social Documentation M.F.A. Program at UC Santa Cruz—has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his documentary film, “A Village Called Versailles.”
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Chancellor Blumenthal’s surgery
Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway informs the campus that Chancellor Blumenthal underwent successful surgery on Monday.
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Andrew Szasz wins highest honor in American environmental sociology
UC Santa Cruz sociology professor Andrew Szasz is the 2011 recipient of the Frederick Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award of the Environment, Technology, and Society section of the American Sociological Association, the highest honor bestowed in American environmental sociology.
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UCSC in the News
Sociology professor Paul Lubeck appeared on the BBC World Service News Hour discussing the Aug. 26 bombing in Nigeria’s capital and the underlying economic and political strife there. Ten days before the bombing, the New York Times quoted Lubeck on the Islamic insurgency that has since claimed responsibility.
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Astrophysicists report first simulation to create a Milky Way-like galaxy
A simulation of galaxy formation by UCSC astrophysicists solves a longstanding problem in cosmology.
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In Memoriam: Raymond Narverud, Dana Grier
Crown College is saddened to learn of the recent deaths of two Crown undergraduate students this summer.
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UCSC offers new degree in network and digital technology
The Baskin School of Engineering is offering a new major in network and digital technology.
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University Extension Dean Finalists, Campus Visits
On behalf of the search committee for the Dean of University Extension, we are happy to announce that the following individuals will be visiting our campus as finalists for the dean position.
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UCSC’s Dickens Project featured in August issue of New Yorker
In the August 29 issue of the New Yorker, staff writer Jill Lepore has written a fascinating feature story about the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz.