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  • Organic rose care demystified in new book by UCSC Garden Manager Orin Martin

    Master gardener Orin Martin cuts a lush bouquet of fresh, organically grown garden roses for his eldest daughter each year on her birthday. What’s unusual is that she was born November 9. Better yet, when Martin sits down to Thanksgiving dinner, a rose-based bouquet often adorns his table. Impossible, you say? Not so, replies Martin,…

  • 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…

  • Public forum on education and state funding at UCSC October 25

    For Immediate Release SANTA CRUZ, CA–The community is invited to attend a free public forum about the state budget crisis and its long-term impact on funding for education on Tuesday, October 25, at 4:30 p.m. in the Merrill Cultural Center at UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz Superintendent of Schools Diane Siri will be joined by…

  • Día de los Muertos ceremony takes place at Santa Cruz museum on October 25

    Día de los Muertos, the Mexican holiday during which individuals, families, and communities gather together to remember and honor deceased loved ones, will be celebrated at a Santa Cruz museum on Tuesday, October 25. The event–open to the public–will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Museum of Art and History at the…

  • International economists gather at UCSC Oct. 14-15 for annual conference

    For Immediate Release SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Eighth Annual International Economics Conference will take place October 14-15 at the University Center at UC Santa Cruz. The event is sponsored each year by UCSC’s Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE) to facilitate the exchange of ideas and the presentation of new research. With participants from the…

  • Mystery Spot demonstrates power of perception, UC Santa Cruz psychologist explains

    SANTA CRUZ, CA–For years, UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Bruce Bridgeman has taken college students to the Mystery Spot, a popular local tourist attraction, to demonstrate how the human brain works. Tourists flock to the Mystery Spot to enjoy the “puzzling variations in gravity, perspective, height and more,” leaving baffled and perplexed by the apparent…

  • Three UCSC professors and two graduate students honored for teaching

    SANTA CRUZ, CA–Three professors and two graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were honored for their teaching today (Thursday, September 29). The Division of Social Sciences presented the division’s Distinguished Teaching Award, known as the “Golden Apple Award,” during the dean’s annual fall convocation. The awards recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching in the…

  • Faye Crosby receives top honor in social psychology, becoming third UCSC professor to win prestigious Kurt Lewin Award

    SANTA CRUZ, CA–Faye J. Crosby, professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an expert on affirmative action, has received the Kurt Lewin Award, one of the most prestigious honors in social psychology. Crosby received the award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), also known as Division…

  • UCSC New Teacher Center director receives national education award

    Ellen Moir, executive director of the New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received the 2005 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education today (Tuesday, September 27) for her pioneering work in new teacher professional development. Also receiving the McGraw Prize this year were Barbara Taylor Bowman, cofounder of the Erikson Institute,…

  • Skewed system facilitates death sentences and undermines fairness of capital punishment, says author of new book Death by Design

    In a harsh critique of the death penalty before a gathering of the nation’s lawyers last month, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said recent exonerations of death row inmates reveal serious procedural flaws that undermine the way capital punishment is administered in this country. Stevens’s remarks before members of the American Bar Association…

  • 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…

  • UCSC professor Lucinda Pease-Alvarez joins innovative teacher-prep effort

    Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, an associate professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is one of 17 educators around the country named to an innovative project that will develop a “virtual apprenticeship” for novice teachers. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has selected Pease-Alvarez and 16 others as the first Goldman-Carnegie Quest…

Last modified: May 02, 2025