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December 11, 2013
Game designer Brenda Romero among top ten game developers of 2013
Program director for the M.S. in games and playable media is featured on a list of the "Top 10 Game Developers of 2013."
December 10, 2013
UCSC’s Ethics Bowl team qualifies for national competition
UCSC’s Ethics Bowl team placed third at the Regional Ethics Bowl Tournament hosted by National Hispanic University on Saturday, qualifying the campus to compete at the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition.
November 11, 2013
UCSC ranks 12th for students studying in year-long programs abroad
The number of UCSC students studying abroad as part of year-long programs totaled 81, earning the campus a No. 12 ranking for the number of students engaged in "longer duration" study at foreign institutions.
November 01, 2013
UCSC well represented at upcoming Santa Cruz Film Festival
A wide range of films by UCSC faculty, students, and alumni will be showcased at the 2013 Santa Cruz Film Festival, running November 7- 12 in downtown Santa Cruz.
October 22, 2013
Humanities Division’s Rothman Award honors freshman writing students
UCSC student Alma Morales and her writing instructor Steven Carter were awarded first place for Morales’s essay, "Nina de Mexico, Student of America--Daughter of Nowhere" in the 2012-13 Don Rothman Writing Awards.
October 18, 2013
UCSC’s first ‘Ed Talks' draws crowd in downtown Santa Cruz
An enthusiastic audience of 250 community members gathered at the “Top of the Ritt” in downtown Santa Cruz last night to celebrate UCSC’s very first evening of “Ed Talks”—three TED-style talks by acclaimed UC Santa Cruz faculty.
September 16, 2013
UC Santa Cruz prepares to welcome new, returning students for fall 2013
UC Santa Cruz students are scheduled to begin moving into university housing Wednesday, September 18, in anticipation of fall quarter for the 2013-14 school year. "Move-in" for students living on campus will continue through Sunday, September 22.
September 11, 2013
Two UCSC film students receive Princess Grace awards
UCSC graduate students Lena Jackson and Claire Miyamoto have each been awarded a 2013 Princess Grace Foundation Honorarium in the category of documentary film.
September 10, 2013
NSF grant supports training of math and science teachers at UCSC
$1.45 million Noyce Scholarships grant supports UCSC's teacher training partnerships with high-need school districts and community colleges
August 27, 2013
Engineering Summer Bridge program celebrates 10 years serving new students
A week-long residential program eases the transition from high school to college for engineering students from underrepresented backgrounds.
August 22, 2013
UCSC ranked among best colleges for computer science and humanities majors
UCSC is highly ranked among the nation's top computer science and humanities programs for "lifetime return on investment."
August 13, 2013
Film grad promoting documentary that won chancellor’s award
Last May, UCSC graduate student Sadia Halima received the Chancellor’s Research Award for her thesis film Laal Pari/The Red Fairy, a documentary addressing women’s participation in politics at the grassroots level in rural India. Her documentary has now been accepted for screening at several international film festivials
August 09, 2013
The astonishing world of UCSC alumnus artist Brandon Bird
UCSC alumnus Brandon Bird is an artist known for his inclination to draw and paint figures from pop culture in absurd situations. The Internet phenomenon returns to Santa Cruz on Aug. 19 to celebrate his first book with a reading, discussion, and signing at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
August 05, 2013
UCSC alumna Kathy Sullivan nominated to lead NOAA
President Obama has nominated UCSC alumna Kathryn Sullivan to serve as Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere.
June 27, 2013
UC Santa Cruz to offer new Spanish Studies B.A. degree
Beginning this fall, students at UC Santa Cruz can now declare a major in Spanish Studies, leading to a new bachelor of arts degree.
June 14, 2013
New exhibit now on display at UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive
“Songs of Our Own: The Art of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon” is the second annual exhibition of The Grateful Dead Archive, now open to the public at UCSC’s McHenry Library.
June 13, 2013
Health sciences grad Aaron Surrey earns Sutter medical school scholarship
Health sciences grad Aaron Surrey will receive the 7th annual Primary Care Physician Award.
June 04, 2013
7th annual screening of Soc Doc graduate films at Del Mar Theatre
UCSC presents the 7th annual exhibition of thesis films from the Film and Digital Media Department’s masters program in Social Documentation, June 12, at the Del Mar Theater.
May 31, 2013
Linguistics professor receives Dizikes Award for teaching in Humanities
Linguistics professor Donka Farkas was presented with the 2013 John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities yesterday at the Humanities Division’s Spring Awards Celebration.
May 28, 2013
UCSC showcases outstanding student artists in Irwin Scholars Exhibition
UCSC's Irwin Scholars Exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery features work from 12 students selected for outstanding work and promise in the visual arts.
May 21, 2013
UCSC film professor celebrates release of new book at Lincoln Center
Two decades ago, UCSC film professor B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema” to describe a new type of film making its debut at film festivals featuring lesbian and gay protagonists. Her latest book offers new thoughts on the topic and also brings together the best of Rich’s writing on the genre.
May 21, 2013
UCSC offers professional degree in games and playable media
A new master's degree program in Games and Playable Media is being offered from the UCSC Silicon Valley site in Santa Clara.
May 15, 2013
UCSC to host first annual Middle School Summit focusing on solving community challenges
UC Santa Cruz will pilot the first annual Middle School Summit on Tuesday, May 21, as part of the Santa Cruz County College Commitment--bringing up to 350 local students to the university campus.
May 01, 2013
So You Think When You Dance?
UCSC’s Ted Warburton will give the Arts Division’s 2013 Outstanding Faculty Research Lecture May 16, plus direct a faculty dance concert with guest Bay Area alumni and students, May 24-June 2.
April 30, 2013
34th annual Multicultural Festival takes place on campus on May 18
The 34th annual Multicultural Festival at UC Santa Cruz will take place on Saturday, May 18, with a day of rich cultural performances, food and music. The event, on the Oakes College Lower Lawn, will take place from noon to 6 p.m.
April 29, 2013
UCSC language students to present International Playhouse
UCSC will present International Playhouse XIII--an annual program of fully-staged short theater pieces by students in the Language Program May 16-19, featuring works in French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles.
April 23, 2013
Shakespeare Santa Cruz collaborates with Jewel Theatre for Pinter plays
UCSC’s Shakespeare Santa Cruz has joined forces with Santa Cruz’s Jewel Theatre Company to present two one-act plays by Harold Pinter, running April 25 through May 19, at the Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz.
April 19, 2013
UCSC alumna wins prestigious 2013 Guggenheim
UCSC 1993 graduate Brenda Shaughnessy has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts in poetry. She returns to campus for Alumni Weekend events, including a free public reading on April 25.
April 16, 2013
Digital Arts and New Media grad student exhibition opens April 27
Amplified CB radios, playable wrestling games about nutrition, and buildings that grow in the dark are just a few of the things you’ll encounter at “ground (ctrl)”—opening April 27 at UCSC’s Digital Arts Research Center (DARC building).
April 10, 2013
Arts Division public event to help shape new Institute of Arts and Sciences
The UCSC Arts Division will present a day-long public event to help plan a groundbreaking new interdisciplinary Institute of the Arts and Sciences on Friday, April 26.
April 02, 2013
UCSC Spring Living Writers series kicks off April 4
Acclaimed up-and-coming writer Tupelo Hassman--author of the novel 'Girlchild'--will kick off the spring installment of UCSC’s Living Writers reading series, Thursday, April 4, at the Humanities Lecture Hall.
March 28, 2013
Gary Young wins 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young has received the 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America (PSA) for best original poem on a humanitarian theme.
March 22, 2013
UCSC to hold international conference on Sikh and Punjabi Studies, March 29-30
The UC Santa Cruz Sikh and Punjabi Studies program will present an international conference titled "(Re-)Building Punjab: Political Economy, Society and Values" on campus, March 29-30.
March 20, 2013
Baskin School of Engineering hosts meeting on women in technology
Members of the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Pacesetters Program met at UCSC in February.
March 19, 2013
Shakespeare Santa Cruz announces lineup for 2013 season
Shakespeare Santa Cruz will open with the popular comedy, "The Taming of the Shrew," and continue through Sept. 1 with "Henry V" and "Tom Jones." For the first time, all shows will take place outdoors among the redwoods in the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen.
March 18, 2013
Alumna Belle Yang contributes cover art to second issue of Catamaran
“Kite”--a 1997 painting by UC Santa Cruz alumna Belle Yang—is the featured art on the cover of the just released Spring 2013 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader.
March 14, 2013
Works by UCSC music professor to be featured at Smithsonian
Thousand Gates, a concert featuring two new works by UC Santa Cruz professor of music Hi Kyung Kim, is set to be performed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on April 7.
March 11, 2013
The Rosa Parks African American Theme House: Discovering similarities, embracing differences
Students from diverse backgrounds learn about struggles of race, gender, and class while becoming a family to each other.
March 06, 2013
UCSC arts, humanities professors collaborate for ‘New Orleans Suite’
A new book by UCSC professors Lewis Watts (Art) and Eric Porter (History, American Studies) maps the changing cultural scene in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit the Crescent City in the summer of 2005.
February 28, 2013
UCSC alumna Kathy Sullivan named acting administrator for NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has appointed UCSC alumna Kathryn Sullivan to serve as acting administrator for NOAA.
February 25, 2013
UCSC arts alumnus wins Academy Award
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Rick Carter won an Oscar Sunday for production design on Steven Speilberg’s acclaimed film, Lincoln. This marks the second academy award for the former UCSC art major.
February 21, 2013
UCSC presents interactive, multi-venue production of Ibsen's epic masterpiece
Henrik Ibsen’s play "Peer Gynt" has been staged at theaters across the world since its premiere in 1876—as well as at an insane asylum in Iceland, in the Wild West, on a German boat, and in a Scottish pub.
February 19, 2013
UCSC Linguistics professors receive $300,000 NSF grant
UCSC humanities professors Sandra Chung and Matthew Wagers have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate language comprehension in the Mariana Islands.
February 19, 2013
Student research project attracts European partners and NSF funding
Research on Mediterranean seagrass leads to international collaboration and a grant to extend students' findings.
February 13, 2013
Fashion meets Digital Art at MAH Third Friday-Feb. 15
Students and alumni artists from UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) grad program will join forces with the local Santa Cruz fashion scene on Friday, February 15, at the downtown Museum of Art and History.
February 12, 2013
Winner of groundbreaking historic Gay Rights case to speak at UCSC
UCSC will present a lecture by Karen Thompson titled “Love is a Dangerous Promise” on Thursday, March 7, at 7 p.m., at the Second Stage Theater in the Performing Arts Center on the UCSC campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited.
February 07, 2013
Israeli filmmaker to screen acclaimed documentary about famed architect
UCSC’s Film and Digital Media Department will present a free public screening of award-winning Israeli documentarian Duki Dror’s acclaimed film "Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions" on Feb. 25, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
February 05, 2013
Karen Yamashita to read and lead talk about Asian American & Ethnic Studies
Award-winning author and UCSC literature professor Karen Yamashita will give a reading of excerpts from her work, followed by an informal conversation with guest professors Alondra Nelson (Columbia University) and Aimee Bahng (Dartmouth College).
February 01, 2013
Astronomer Sandra Faber honored in White House ceremony
President Barack Obama presented astronomer Sandra Faber with the National Medal of Science in a White House ceremony on Friday.
February 01, 2013
Students help local teens navigate the college admission process
The undergrad-led program UCAN aims to help high school students negotiate the sometimes tricky path to higher education.
January 28, 2013
Gail Hershatter to deliver 47th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture
UC Santa Cruz professor of history Gail Hershatter will deliver the 47th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, February 12, at 7 p.m. at the Music Recital Hall in the UCSC Performing Arts Complex.
January 24, 2013
UCSC alums to perform at 12th annual SF Sketchfest comedy festival
Two UC Santa Cruz alumni-- Maya Rudolph (’95, Art) and Jesse Thorn (’03, American Studies)--will be featured performers at the 12th annual SF Sketchfest comedy festival, opening Jan. 24, and running through Feb. 10, at various venues throughout San Francisco.
January 23, 2013
Exhibition by internationally known environmental artists at Sesnon Gallery
In the mid 1990s, environmental artists Newton and Helen Harrison were asked by the Dalai Lama to create a work of art titled “Tibet is the Higher Ground.” That piece is just one sample of their work that will be on display at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery, beginning February 6.
January 18, 2013
UCSC sees sharp increase in undergraduate applications for fall
More than 46,000 prospective undergraduates – the most ever – have applied for admission to UC Santa Cruz for the fall 2013 quarter.
January 16, 2013
UCSC to host 3rd annual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, Jan. 31
The UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department will host the third annual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 31. Jan Boxill to speak on “Using Sports as a Public Forum for Ethics”
January 11, 2013
Arts faculty collaborate for ‘Guitar Fantasy’
UCSC music lecturers Mesut Özgen and William Coulter will present “Guitar Fantasy”--a special program of Spanish, Latin American, Celtic, Turkish, and Russian music—on Friday, January 25, at the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall.
January 09, 2013
Music professor Linda Burman-Hall to receive Gail Rich Award
UC Santa Cruz professor of music Linda Burman-Hall will be one of six community members honored at the 17th annual Gail Rich Awards, Wednesday, January 23 at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz.