Social Sciences
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Preventing Columbine: Psychologist Elliot Aronson delivers UCSC Faculty Emeritus Lecture February 11
Award-winning social psychologist Elliot Aronson will deliver a free public lecture entitled “The Elephant in the Parlor: How the Columbine High School Massacre Could Have Been Prevented,” on Wednesday, February 11, at 8:15 p.m. in the Media Theater at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Aronson, a professor emeritus of psychology at UCSC, is author…
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Psychologist Barbara Rogoff to deliver UC Santa Cruz faculty research lecture February 5
Barbara Rogoff, a leading developmental psychologist, will deliver the annual faculty research lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Thursday, February 5, at 8 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Rogoff, whose talk is entitled “Learning through Intent Participation in Cultural Activity,” has spent…
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Organic agriculture at a crossroads: Prof says goals of ecological sustainability and social justice may require subsidies
Thirty years after the birth of organic agriculture in California, the industry looks more than ever like the agribusiness model it set out to oppose. The early dream of producing food in ecologically sustainable ways has withered under multiple pressures, but an analysis by a geographer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that…
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UC Santa Cruz offers pruning workshops January 10 and 31
Two UC Santa Cruz gardening experts will show you how to improve the health and productivity of your apple and pear trees at a three-hour pruning workshop on Saturday, January 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. The class takes place at the Louise Cain Gatehouse on the UC Santa Cruz Farm. UCSC garden managers Christof…
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Sociologist John Kitsuse, internment camp survivor, dies at 80
John I. Kitsuse, a second-generation Japanese American who was imprisoned in an internment camp during World War II and became a leading scholar in the field of sociology, died Thursday, November 27, at his home in Santa Cruz after suffering a stroke the day before. He was 80 years old. Kitsuse, a professor emeritus of…
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UCSC gains from two generations of generosity
Eugene Walsh knows the value of higher education. Forced to cut short his studies at UCLA to support his parents during the Great Depression, Walsh returned to the classroom decades later, graduating from UCLA’s executive program in 1964, and receiving an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University in 1972. Now, Walsh’s son and daughter-in-law are doing their…
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Leading economist named Social Sciences dean at UCSC
Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood announced today (Monday, November 10) that Michael M. Hutchison has been appointed as interim dean of the UC Santa Cruz Social Sciences Division, effective December 1. Professor Michael Hutchison will assume position December 1 “Michael Hutchison is an ideal choice for this key post,” Greenwood commented. “He is an internationally renowned scholar…
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Racially mixed juries would provide ‘checks and balances’ throughout criminal justice system, author says
With jury selection just completed in the trial of John Allen Muhammad, accused of masterminding the Washington-area sniper slayings a year ago, sociologist and jury expert Hiroshi Fukurai says it is time for the United States to revitalize its criminal justice system by requiring that juries be racially representative of the communities in which they…
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UC Santa Cruz professor receives $150,000 fellowship to help save wild salmon
Dennis T. Kelso, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $150,000 fellowship that will support his efforts to save wild salmon. Kelso today (Monday, September 29) was named a fellow of the Pew Marine Conservation Program, one of only five international recipients recognized each year for…
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UC Santa Cruz Harvest Festival October 11 features live music, tasty food, and more
Grab the kids and celebrate the changing of the seasons at the annual UC Santa Cruz Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 11, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Live music, tasty food, and crafts for kids are only some of the fun that will be available at the UCSC Farm. Admission is free for kids…
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New book debunks conservatives’ call for color-blind society
Ward Connerly’s latest race-related ballot initiative, Proposition 54 on California’s Oct. 7 ballot, would prohibit the state from gathering racial information about students and employees. Connerly says his “Racial Privacy Initiative” is the next step toward achieving a colorblind society. Balderdash, say the authors of the new book Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind…
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New book about dreams integrates psychology, anthropology, and mythology
A new book on dream interpretation draws on the fields of psychology, anthropology, and mythology to offer readers a rich yet practical resource to explore the meaning of dreams. Veronica Tonay, a psychology instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a licensed clinical psychologist, wrote Every Dream Interpreted (London: Collins & Brown Limited,…