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  • Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to present annual Maitra Lecture at UC Santa Cruz

    Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen will deliver the sixth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, October 7, at the Music Center Recital Hall. He will speak on the topic: “The Tyranny of Identity.” The lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by a screening of renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray’s…

  • Lessons of Japan’s economic downturn offered in new book

    The stagnation that plagued the Japanese economy throughout the 1990s lasted twice as long as it should have, according to the coeditor of a new book that says Japan was hobbled by weak monetary policy and its own dysfunctional financial institutions. Michael Hutchison, a leading authority on international finance and the Japanese economy, coedited Japan’s…

  • Academic Senate announces 2005-06 Excellence in Teaching Awards

    Seven faculty members and 10 teaching assistants have been honored with 2005-06 Excellence in Teaching Awards for their exemplary and inspiring teaching. Selected by the UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Teaching and the Graduate Council, the winners of the 2005-06 Excellence in Teaching Awards awards were recognized by Chancellor Denice D. Denton and Committee on…

  • SF Federal Reserve President and CEO Janet Yellen to deliver keynote address May 27

    Janet Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, will deliver the keynote address on Saturday, May 27, during the upcoming conference of the Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Yellen’s talk, “Monetary Policy in a Global Environment,” will begin at 9 p.m.…

  • Eileen Brooks, assistant professor of economics at UC Santa Cruz, dies at 33

    Eileen L. Brooks, assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, died Wednesday, February 1, at Dominican Hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 33 years old. No services are planned. Brooks joined the UCSC faculty in 2001 after earning a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. A 1994 graduate…

  • Kids with access to a home computer are more likely to graduate, digital divide study finds

    Access to a home computer increases the likelihood that children will graduate from high school, but blacks and Latinos are much less likely to have a computer at home than are whites, according to a new study by a researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that also found the digital divide is even…

  • Economics Department at UC Santa Cruz ranked ninth in world in international finance

    The Economics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was ranked ninth in the world in the field of international finance in a survey of more than 300 public and private research universities. The ranking is based on the research productivity of faculty as measured by scholarly publications in 63 academic journals from 1993…

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