Humanities
-
7th annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner to support UCSC students–Feb. 6 at Tech Museum in San Jose
UCSC will host its seventh annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner on Saturday, February 6, at the Tech Museum in San Jose.
-
Award-winning women writers to be featured in UCSC’s 2010 Living Writers Series
How do women writers view history differently than men? That’s the key question posed by “Another Look: Women Writers Re-Vision History”–the winter installment of UCSC’s annual Living Writers Series.
-
Literature professor’s book makes Choice magazine’s list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Literature professor Rob Wilson’s book “Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics” (Harvard University Press) has been selected as one of Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009.
-
UCSC philosophy students win regionals in national Ethics Bowl competition
A team of UCSC philosophy students won first place this past weekend at the California Regional Ethics Bowl Tournament held in Chico, qualifying them to compete in the National Ethics competition on March 4 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
-
History professor to establish new program in Ancient Studies at UCSC
History professor Charles Hedrick will use his recent UC Presidential Chair appointment to establish and develop a new program in Ancient Studies on the UCSC campus.
-
3rd annual UCSC ‘Founders Day’ gala dinner at Cocoanut Grove to honor five exceptional individuals
UCSC will host its third annual Founders Day gala dinner at the Cocoanut Grove on Friday, October 23.
-
Award-winning novelist coming to UCSC on October 7
The UCSC Center for Labor Studies and the Living Writers Series will join together to present a reading by award-winning novelist Monique Truong, Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall
-
UCSC lecturer wins award for innovation in teaching Spanish
Spanish Language lecturer María Victoria González Paganihas has been awarded the IV Cristóbal de Villalón Award for “Innovation in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language.”
-
UCSC scores high in competition for UC multi-campus research funding
Four research programs headquartered at UC Santa Cruz have received awards in the 2009 UC Multi-Campus Research Programs and Initiatives Competition (MRPI).
-
History professor Dana Frank contributes op-ed to San Francisco Chronicle about crisis in Honduras
Professor of history Dana Frank has contributed an op-ed piece titled “Obama’s Honduran Test” to today’s San Francisco Chronicle about Sunday’s coup in Honduras.
-
Students experience the power of the written word
This spring, students in Sarah Rabkin’s Environmental Action Through Writing class tried their hand at producing works powerful enough to change hearts and minds.
