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November 14, 2014
Center for Emerging Worlds launches with a year-long focus on global Islam
The Center for Emerging Worlds at UC Santa Cruz, which launched in September, addresses the many conflicts, environmental challenges, resource competitions, and ethnic and nationalist and religious tensions in the world.
November 10, 2014
Wade Davis to speak at UC Santa Cruz on Nov. 14
Author, explorer, filmmaker, and professor Wade Davis will deliver the 14th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Friday, November 14, at the Music Center Recital Hall.
November 05, 2014
Leading conservationists call for a "unified and diverse conservation ethic"
UC Santa Cruz faculty are among conservationists leading the effort to resolve a polarizing debate over the reasons to conserve nature.
October 29, 2014
Toni Morrison and Angela Davis on friendship and creativity
During in-depth conversations this summer, Toni Morrison and Angela Davis share thoughts about their past collaboration, their longstanding friendship, and their bedrock belief in the power of literature.
October 28, 2014
UC Santa Cruz named a 'silver bicycle-friendly' university
UC Santa Cruz has been named a 'silver bicycle-friendly' university by the League of American Bicyclists.
October 27, 2014
Founders Celebration recipients share commitment to social justice
Acclaimed author Toni Morrison's appearance was a highlight of the 2014 Founders Celebration that also honored Professor Craig Haney, alumnus Mark Headley, and the Long family.
October 20, 2014
UC Santa Cruz sponsored gender development conference celebrates 10 years
A national conference on gender development that UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Campbell Leaper founded 10 years ago will begin Thursday in San Francisco.
October 17, 2014
Social Justice lecture features expert on sexual violence in the military
Professor Elizabeth L. Hillman, a scholar and expert on sexual violence in the military, will speak Thursday, November 6, at UC Santa Cruz as part of the UC Hastings / UC Santa Cruz Social Justice Speakers Series.
October 10, 2014
Social Sciences Research Frontiers Day focuses on data, environment, and justice
The second annual Social Sciences Research Frontiers Day at UC Santa Cruz will take place Friday, October 24, 2014, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. with a focus on data, the environment, and justice.
October 09, 2014
A decade later: How the organic foods movement has grown and evolved
Professor Julie Guthman's "Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California," was hailed as the first social science study of organic foods in the United States. A new, second edition looks at the state of the organic food movement and some of the strange puzzles that afflict it.
October 08, 2014
Merrill alumna who challenged same-sex marriage ban to speak Monday, Oct. 13
Kris Perry, a Merrill College alumna who was a lead plaintiff in the California same-sex marriage case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court last year, is scheduled to speak at noon Monday, October 13, at Kresge Town Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
October 03, 2014
Class features diverse voices on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
"Perspectives on Israel/Palestine," beginning this month will feature a speakers series with diverse voices on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is open to the public.
October 02, 2014
Educational Partnership Center lands $3.27 million grant to help students achieve college
UC Santa Cruz’s Educational Partnership Center has been awarded a $3.27 million federal grant over seven years to help prepare middle and high school students in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District for college.
September 26, 2014
"Seeding Innovation" event highlights green technology projects
Collaborations between UC Santa Cruz undergrads and community mentors are featured in October 3 event at marine sanctuary center.
September 12, 2014
UC Santa Cruz film professor’s original animation to debut on PBS.org
John Jota Leaños's unconventional short film uses humor, hip hop, and comic book style animation to tell a fascinating story of revolt in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
September 11, 2014
Julie Packard: Philanthropy and pragmatism
Alumna (Crown '74, biology; M.A. '78) talks about investing in passion, working to make change, and expanding world views through the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
August 20, 2014
History professor speaks at State Capitol in support of refugee children
UC Santa Cruz Professor of History Dana Frank testified yesterday in Sacramento to support a California State Assembly resolution on the treatment of refugees from Central America.
August 12, 2014
Private donors contribute more than $50 million to UC Santa Cruz
Private financial commitments to UC Santa Cruz for the fiscal year ended June 30 topped $50 million for the first time, bringing the total for The Campaign for UC Santa Cruz to more than $180 million.
August 05, 2014
UC Santa Cruz Internet access project wins University of California IT award
A UC Santa Cruz project to bring broadband Internet services to underserved communities in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties has won a University of California award for information technology.
July 22, 2014
Former farm apprentice wins national food sustainability leadership award
Karen Washington, a graduate of the 2008 Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, is one of five winners of a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award.
July 10, 2014
Retired UC Santa Cruz staff members endow scholarship for student veterans
A group of retired UC Santa Cruz staff members has met its goal to raise $50,000 to endow a fund that commemorates the late project architect Bruce Lane and helps veteran military students on campus.
June 30, 2014
$4-million gift establishes endowment to support sustainable agriculture
A $4-million gift to the University of California, Santa Cruz will establish an endowment to support the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, the nation's first hands-on training program for beginning organic farmers at a public university.
June 25, 2014
UC Santa Cruz to offer sustainability minor beginning in fall
UC Santa Cruz will offer a minor in Sustainability studies beginning in the fall 2014 quarter with a strong engineering component that is aimed at giving students extensive hands-on experience that can lead to jobs in a "green economy."
June 19, 2014
UC Santa Cruz humanities alum named 2014 ACLS Public Fellow
UC Santa Cruz humanities alumnus Michael Ursell has been named a 2014 ACLS Public Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies.
June 19, 2014
Student philanthropists step up to help fellow Banana Slugs with Senior Legacy Fund
This “Slugs helping Slugs’’ philosophy drives members of UC Santa Cruz's Senior Class Council, a student philanthropy group that steps up to give moral support and financial help to fellow students.
May 29, 2014
8th annual screening of Soc Doc graduate films at Del Mar Theatre
UCSC presents the 8th annual exhibition of thesis films from the Film and Digital Media Department’s masters program in Social Documentation on June 11.
May 29, 2014
Congrats, Class of 2014!
Ideally, we'd profile every one of UCSC's talented, passionate, and determined graduates--but the three students featured here serve as excellent representatives of the Class of 2014.
May 28, 2014
Communicating science
Student Nick Lounsbury saw a problem at UCSC: there was cutting-edge research happening on campus, but no one knew about it. His answer? The creation of UC Santa Cruz's first student-run scientific magazine: Scientific Slug.
May 23, 2014
UCSC Farm & Garden’s market cart produce stand opens June 3
The UCSC Farm & Garden’s market cart opens for the 2014 season on Tuesday, June 3.
May 23, 2014
Opening the doors of history
History major Helen Porter took a circuitous path to a unique undergraduate research project exploring the complicated world of Okinawa in the 1950s
May 23, 2014
The impact of wildfires
A grad student who came to the U.S. from Nigeria with dreams of becoming a scientist discovers a hidden consequence of fires.
May 22, 2014
Gun control, gun rights, and Second Amendment panel set for Wednesday
Gun advocates, gun opponents, and Constitutional experts will discuss gun control, gun rights, and Second Amendment issues Wednesday, May 28, at 7 p.m. at the Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room on the UCSC campus.
May 21, 2014
New book examines states' influence on national voter turnout
In her new book, Melanie Jean Springer, UC Santa Cruz assistant professor of politics, examines voter turnout in the United States, one of the lowest in any developed democracy, and reform efforts to improve it.
May 14, 2014
Land and power: Study shows how women discover one leads to the other
UC Santa Cruz assistant professor of psychology Shelly Grabe finds that when women in developing countries own land, they gain power within their relationships and are less likely to experience violence.
May 12, 2014
Making tangible change
Inspired by a UC Santa Cruz class, a group of friends formed a socially conscious nonprofit as a way of keeping in touch after graduating—and have since funded more than $180,000 in projects
May 09, 2014
UCSC Farm’s CSA program accepting members for 2014
The UCSC Farm’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program is open for business and accepting new and renewing members.
May 07, 2014
Proportion of shade-grown coffee shrinks as overall cultivation grows
While the cultivation of coffee has increased globally, the proportion of shade-grown coffee has fallen by nearly 20 percent since 1996, according to a study published in the May 5th issue of the journal BioScience.
May 02, 2014
Anthropocene conference looks at living life on a damaged planet
Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the Earth together after all the havoc that has been wrought? And how will they do it? These questions are at the heart of an international conference next week at UC Santa Cruz.
May 02, 2014
Danny Scheie to direct student cast in ‘revolutionary’ rock musical
UCSC Theater Arts professor Danny Scheie will direct a student cast in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical "Rent" at the Mainstage Theater.
April 24, 2014
Mark Massoud's book on law in Sudan wins Law and Society Association award
"Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan" has won the Herbert Jacob Prize for the best book in law and society published in 2013.
April 23, 2014
UCSC receives NEA grant for art/science project on ocean ecology
UCSC has been awarded an NEA grant to support Blue Trail: Imagination and Innovation for Ocean Sustainability--a series of art installations that will be spread out across the San Francisco waterfront.
April 22, 2014
De-extinction: Building future worlds with extinct organisms?
De-extinction and the accompanying moral and ethical questions will be probed Wednesday, April 23 as the UC Santa Cruz Science and Justice Working Group hosts “De-Extinction: Building Future Worlds with Extinct Organisms?”
April 22, 2014
UCSC Farm & Garden’s annual spring plant sale set for weekend of May 3, 4
The UCSC Farm & Garden’s spring plant sale this year features many “water-wise” varieties of food and landscape plants, along with information on water-conserving crops and practices, and a free seed exchange hosted by UCSC’s Demeter Seed Library.
April 22, 2014
UCSC highlighted in Guide to Green Colleges
UCSC is one of four UC campuses scoring 99 points–the most possible–in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 332 Green Colleges, a free guide featuring colleges with a strong commitment to the environment and to sustainability.
April 16, 2014
UCSC grad students to showcase digital art with social impact
Eleven graduate students from UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. Program (DANM) will conclude two years of artistic study with "Undercurrents"--an exhibition running on campus April 26 through May 4.
April 15, 2014
UC Santa Cruz workshop offers basics of citrus selection, planting and care
The keys to successful citrus growing will be explained at “Get Zesty! Citrus for the Home Gardener and Small-Scale Grower" Saturday, April 26, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the UCSC Farm on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
April 09, 2014
'War to Home' exhibition shares veterans' realities of military service
An exhibit at UCSC's Porter College explores the impact of military service, deployment, and homecoming for 40 veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
April 03, 2014
UCSC alumni photographers focus on environment for exhibition
Three UC Santa Cruz alumni photographers will present their work as artists, environmentalists, and educators at a new exhibition beginning April 9, at the Sesnon Gallery.
March 31, 2014
$2-million gift supports natural history fieldwork at UC Santa Cruz
A $2-million gift from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in honor of the late professor Kenneth Norris will help ensure that UC Santa Cruz continues as a leader in natural history and at the forefront of educating students to become environmental leaders.
March 25, 2014
Free, guided tours of UCSC Farm begin monthly starting Sunday, April 6
Free, guided tours of one of Santa Cruz’s most beautiful locations – the 30-acre organic farm at UC Santa Cruz – are offered from 2 to 3:30 pm on the first Sunday of the month beginning April 6.
March 21, 2014
Deconstruction begins of historic Cowell Ranch barn
Crews began dismantling the historic Cowell Ranch hay barn Tuesday (March 18), the first step in a multi-year process to rebuild it as a home for many of UCSC's leading environmental and sustainability programs.
March 20, 2014
Gary Young wins 2014 George Bogin Memorial Award for poetry
UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young has received the 2014 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
March 20, 2014
UCSC alumnus Hoyt Peckham awarded Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation
Hoyt Peckham has been awarded a 2014 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation to expand on work he began as a UCSC grad student.
March 11, 2014
CASFS apprenticeship alum wins land steward award from Georgia Organics
Celia Barss, a 2002 graduate of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food System’s apprenticeship program at UC Santa Cruz, won the 2014 Land Steward Award as Georgia’s organic agriculture community held its 17th annual organics conference.
March 10, 2014
Eduardo Mosqueda wins early career scholar award
Eduardo Mosqueda, assistant professor of education at UC Santa Cruz, has won the 2014 Hispanic Research Issues Special Interest Group (SIG) Early Career Scholar Award.
March 07, 2014
Event Santa Cruz features talks by UCSC professors and alumni
Three UC Santa Cruz social science professors and three alumni who have started businesses in Santa Cruz are featured speakers at the next Event Santa Cruz set for 7-9 p.m., Wednesday, March 19, at the Nickelodeon Theatres.
March 06, 2014
Psychology's Haney discusses solitary confinement on NPR's 'Fresh Air'
An interview with UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Craig Haney is scheduled on the public radio program "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross.
March 05, 2014
Play with Barbie dolls affects career aspirations for girls
Girls who play with Barbie dolls tend to see fewer career options available to them compared with the options available to boys, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon State University and the UC, Santa Cruz.
March 04, 2014
Experts discuss science and policy at first UCSC Climate Science conference
More than a dozen nationally prominent climate scientists and policy makers gathered for the first Climate Science and Policy Conference at UCSC organized by the divisions of Social Sciences and Physical and Biological Sciences.
February 27, 2014
Gardening course focuses on optimizing under drought conditions
Drought conditions can be especially daunting for gardeners, but as gardening expert Orin Martin points out, “Although the drought is a challenge, it’s also an opportunity to give your garden the horticultural equivalent of a 50,000-mile tune up.”
February 26, 2014
UCSC film professor creates video to address LA public health crisis
UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media John Jota Leaños, is one of six artists tapped by a Los Angeles media arts organization to create videos addressing a public health crisis.
February 13, 2014
Haney testifies at Sacramento hearing on perils of solitary confinement
In testimony before a joint hearing on public safety, UC Santa Cruz professor Craig Haney described California's prison system as an outlier in the nation and world in the way it uses isolation of inmates.
February 11, 2014
MLK Convocation speaker promotes dreams, values, and education
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III delivered a rollicking 25-minute keynote address at the 30th annual UCSC Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation February 6.
February 07, 2014
UCSC climate conference draws distinguished scientists, policymakers
Distinguished climate scientists, policymakers, and commentators will participate in a major national conference on climate science and climate change at UC Santa Cruz on Friday, February 28 and Saturday, March 1, 2014.
February 07, 2014
Making tangible change
Alums who formed socially conscious nonprofit as a way of keeping in touch have funded more than $180,000 in projects.
January 27, 2014
Tom Pettigrew wins American sociology's highest award for social psychology
Thomas F. Pettigrew, research professor of social psychology at UC Santa Cruz, will receive the Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime Contributions to Sociological Social Psychology from the American Sociological Association in August. It is American sociology’s highest award for social psychology and will be presented at the association’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
January 08, 2014
Crowd sourcing effort helps build Zimmerman Scholarship fund
A scholarship fund in Gabe Zimmerman's honor has grown to nearly $80,000 and is poised to grow further from an innovative crowd sourcing effort launched January 8, the third anniversary of the UCSC alumnus's death.
January 08, 2014
UCSC grad student’s book on Tibet earning acclaim from press in India
Three months ago, a new book by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa—a graduate student in literature at UC Santa Cruz—was launched in Dharamsala, India, by the prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile...