Social Sciences
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ATTENTION POLITICAL EDITORS: Experts available for election commentary
With the presidential campaign entering its final weeks, the following experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are available for media interviews on the following topics: Bush vs. Kerry Michael Brown, professor of politics, can compare and analyze the candidates’ positions on domestic policies, including taxes, the federal budget and the deficit, and Social…
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$1.5 million funds UC Santa Cruz research on math education for Latinos
In a sign that the federal government is tackling the persistent problem of low mathematics achievement among Latino schoolchildren, the National Science Foundation has funded an ambitious $10 million, five-year research center focused on improving student performance. Two faculty members from the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be participating in the four-campus collaboration, which…
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Annual Harvest Festival at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, October 9
Whether you like yours fresh off the tree or baked in a tasty pie, apples will be a star attraction at the annual UC Santa Cruz Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fall festival features live music, tasty food, and crafts for kids, as well as the ever-popular…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt will meet with reporters prior to his lecture at UCSC on October 5
In response to requests from reporters, former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has agreed to be available to answer reporters’ questions in advance of his lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Tuesday, October 5. Who: Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior, 1993 to 2001 What: In response to requests from reporters, Bruce Babbitt has agreed to…
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STEPS Institute establishes graduate fellowships honoring M.R.C. Greenwood, Frans Lanting, and Christine Eckstrom
The STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has established three new graduate fellowships for interdisciplinary environmental research, funded by an anonymous donor and named in honor of three individuals known for forging links between science and society: M.R.C. Greenwood, Frans Lanting, and Christine Eckstrom. UC Provost and…
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Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to speak at UCSC
Bruce Babbitt, who served for eight years as secretary of the interior during the Clinton administration, will give the inaugural Fred Keeley Lecture on Environmental Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Tuesday, October 5. The talk, titled “Environmental Policy for a New Century,” will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Music…
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$200,000 gift from UCSC Professor Jean Langenheim establishes graduate fellowship in plant ecology and evolution
Jean Langenheim, professor emerita of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been studying plant ecology and evolution for 60 years. Now she is giving financial support to a new generation of graduate students in her field through an endowed fellowship fund. The Jean H. Langenheim Graduate Fellowship in Plant…
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USDA grant funds UC Santa Cruz research with organic farmers
With organic agriculture poised to represent 10 to 20 percent of California cropland by 2024, the federal government has tapped the University of California, Santa Cruz, to lead a research program that will give organic farmers the same kind of boost the university has given conventional farmers for decades. Strawberry and vegetable producers collaborate with…
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Air Pollution Reveals Privilege, Politics, and Priorities, Says Author
It’s been more than a century since women donned dark dresses to hide the black soot of coal fires and architects streamlined building designs because corrosive air pollution was eating away at ornately carved stone details. But those examples from Manchester, England, illustrate how people since the dawning of the industrial era have coped with…
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Emphasis on ‘culture’ in psychology fuels stereotypes, scholar says
In the current issue of the influential journal Human Development, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, challenges his colleagues to reconsider popular ideas about the role of culture in human development. Contemporary scholarship is rife with broad, distorted generalizations about “culture” that play into stereotypes and threaten to obscure the powerful influences…
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Growth study of wild chimpanzees challenges assumptions about early humans, anthropologists say
A new study of wild chimpanzee growth rates, published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that early human evolution may have taken a different course than is widely believed. The results challenge the assumption that human evolution followed a path from a chimplike ancestor to a transitionary…
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Current problems of U.S. Senate rooted in history, says author
The electoral college isn’t the only outdated political system that should be overhauled, according to a political scientist who says the antiquated ways of the United States Senate contribute to Congressional gridlock and thwart American democracy. Expert on U.S. politics available to discuss the U.S. Senate, electoral politics, and the presidency; see contact information below.…