April 2012
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Irena Polic helps connect Humanities to the lives of everyday folks
In her role at the Institute for Humanities Research, Irena Polic’s mission is to help the great thinkers in the UC system connect their ideas to the lives of everyday folks.
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Jim Urban is the artist behind UCSC’s iconic barn signs
You don’t realize your eyes are fooling you until you stand close to the Barn Theater at UCSC’s main entrance. That’s when you realize what looks like a digitally rendered photographic billboard of Martin Luther King Jr.’s face, for example, is not digital, photographic, or even a billboard. Peer closely and you’ll see dry-brush strokes, a dot…
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A fusion of art and science
Last summer, visitors at the Tech Museum in San Jose had the chance to step off our planet and hurl a star into the cosmos. On a screen in front of them lay a black hole waiting to yank in an errant star that visitors attempted to throw toward it at just the right angle…
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The Real Deal
Malia Bradley is working on a plan to harvest rainwater and use non-potable water for things like irrigation and toilet flushing on campus. Soraya Danesh is helping students prepare for natural disasters and also make sure their residences are fire-safe. While these tasks may seem administrator-worthy, UCSC undergrads are actually carrying them out as part…
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Celebrate the Great 88
In 1967, the year of the Summer of Love, a group of UCSC students started an FCC-unauthorized campus radio station that broadcast from a clammy basement and tried to use an upside-down garbage can as an antenna. The broadcasters initially put egg cartons instead of acoustic tiles on the walls, and the disc jockeys played the…
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Organic farming research to expand with $2.6 million grant
UC Santa Cruz will continue and expand its leading role in sustainable agriculture research with a $2.6 million federal grant to strengthen collaboration with Central Coast farmers to promote organic production in the region. Researchers at UCSC’s Environmental Studies Department and Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) will use the four-year grant from…
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Hot dates
Commencement exercises events.ucsc.edu/commencement June 15–17, 2012 Whale of an Auction, Friends of Long Marine Lab seymourcenter.ucsc.edu June 23, 2012 Cowell College Founders Celebration 2012 ucsc.edu/founders October 12, 2012 Founders Day Gala Dinner Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz Alumni Reunion Weekend 2013 events.ucsc.edu/reunion April 26–28, 2013 Campus For more events, visit:events.ucsc.edu
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From the Chancellor
Here at UC Santa Cruz, we excel at working cooperatively toward shared goals, particularly goals that focus on social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and the common good. We are united by a spirit of “defiant optimism,” as UCSC Foundation Trustee Brandon Allgood put it recently. For students, that spirit is evident in our commitment to hands-on…
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From the Editor
There’s an “ivory tower” stereotype about higher education that I’d like to challenge. Critics chide academia over the sometimes esoteric nature of college studies, saying such topics have no bearing on real life—much less getting a job. Okay, sure—my own days as an English major sometimes included stalking a fictional character, Leopold Bloom. Slouched in…
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Your Turn
A Revolt Against Humiliation Ed. Note: The following letters were submitted in response to an article, “A revolt against humiliation,” that was written by faculty members Alan Richards and Edmund Burke. The article appeared in the spring 2011 issue. Alan Richards’s and Edmund Burke’s distorted perspective on the turmoil in the Middle East was inappropriate for…
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Masthead, Spring 2012
University of California Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal Vice Chancellor, University Relations Donna Murphy UC Santa Cruz Review Spring 2012 Editor Gwen Mickelson Creative Director Lisa Nielsen Art Director/Designer Linda Knudson (Cowell ’76) Associate Editor Dan White Cover Photo Anthony L. Solis Photography Eric Arvizu Scott Karoly Carolyn Lagattuta Elena Zhukova Contributors John C. Cannon…