Social Sciences
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UCSC’s New Teacher Center receives $175,000 from MetLife Foundation to fund next generation of mentoring tools
MetLife Foundation has awarded $175,000 to the New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as part of the foundation’s Teacher Development and Retention Initiative.
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EPA ranks UC Santa Cruz the sixth largest ‘green power’ purchaser among campuses
SANTA CRUZ, CA-A vote by UC Santa Cruz students to boost their own fees to enhance campus support for “green power” has brought national recognition from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA’s College and University Green Power Partners, which promotes purchases of renewable resources, has named UC Santa Cruz its sixth largest green…
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UC Santa Cruz film scholar B. Ruby Rich chairs panel at Sundance Film Festival
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Film scholar B. Ruby Rich will chair a panel discussion at the Sundance Film Festival about how the counterculture has changed since the 1960s.
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Richard Musgrave, renowned pioneer of public finance, dies at 96
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Richard A. Musgrave, widely regarded as the founder of modern public finance and an adviser on fiscal policy and taxation to governments from Washington to Bogota to Tokyo, died Monday, Jan. 15.
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UC Santa Cruz honored during Ecological Farming Conference Jan. 24-27
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The contributions of UC Santa Cruz to sustainable agriculture will be in the spotlight during this year’s Ecological Farming Conference, with a focus on the 40th anniversary of the campus’s pathbreaking Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticu
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Leading Iraq expert Juan Cole to discuss crisis January 17 at UC Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Juan Cole, professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan and the moderator of the highly acclaimed blog “Informed Comment,” will discuss the Iraq war on Wednesday, January 17, at 7 p.m. in the Colleges Nine and Ten Mult
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UC researchers lead USDA-funded study of farm-to-institution programs
Say good-bye to wisecracks about lousy cafeteria food and get ready for more salad bars and fresh produce in schools, universities, and hospitals. Potentially huge market could spell relief for small and mid-sized farms, improve eating habits of many A variety of products are displayed at a Farm-to-College event at UC Davis. (Photo: Kathy Bruce,…
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UCSC Professor Emeritus Elliot Aronson receives lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science
Called a man who has “fundamentally changed the way we look at everyday life,” preeminent social psychologist Elliot Aronson has received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science. Elliot Aronson (Photo: UCSC Photo Services) The William James Fellow Award is the latest honor bestowed upon Aronson, a professor emeritus of psychology at…
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Free public forum on Persian Gulf crisis Nov. 2 at Veterans Memorial Hall in Santa Cruz
The public is invited to a free panel discussion about the Persian Gulf Crisis with an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, an expert on international terrorism, and a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kashmir. Alan Richards (Photo: Jim MacKenzie) The town hall forum, “The Persian Gulf:…
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Major gift funds UC Santa Cruz endowed chair in environmental studies
Craig Griswold has fond childhood memories of admiring seashells with his mother on the beach in Santa Cruz, where his family sought relief from the scorching summer heat of the San Joaquin Valley. Now Griswold is honoring his mother, Olga, by establishing an endowed chair in environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…
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UC Santa Cruz anthropologist receives social sciences teaching award
Melissa L. Caldwell, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received the 2006 Distinguished Teaching Award today (Thursday, September 28) from the Division of Social Sciences. The award, known as the “Golden Apple Award,” was presented during the dean’s annual fall convocation. The award recognizes outstanding undergraduate teaching in the…
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Scientists offer guidelines for coping with climate change in Alaska
Coping with the devastating effects of climate change in Alaska will require institutional nimbleness and a willingness among those living at lower latitudes to “share the pain,” according to the authors of a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Erika Zavaleta (Photo: Jim MacKenzie) The interdisciplinary team of…