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  • Oct.12 Harvest Festival celebrates 35 years of UCSC leadership in organic farming and gardening

    The annual Harvest Festival at the UC Santa Cruz Farm draws hundreds of families who gather to enjoy music, good food, and the changing of the seasons. This year’s event on Saturday, October 12, will be especially festive as the Farm celebrates 35 years of leadership in organic farming and gardening. Highlights of this year’s…

  • UC Santa Cruz prof shares honor for book on life under Jim Crow

    Joining the ranks of Roots author Alex Haley and Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won the 2002 Lillian Smith Book Award for his work on a book of oral histories of blacks living in the segregated South. Paul Ortiz, an assistant professor of community studies…

  • UC Santa Cruz instructor honored for mediation work

    Donald T. Saposnek, a lecturer in psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a leader in the field of mediation, has been honored by his peers for his mediation work. Saposnek was named recipient of the 2002 John M. Haynes Distinguished Mediator Award, which is presented annually by the international Association for Conflict…

  • Three UCSC profs discuss post-9/11 world affairs on Sept. 26

    The public is invited to attend a free post-9/11 discussion with three experts on the Middle East on Thursday, September 26, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Classroom Unit 2 on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The forum, “The U.S., the Middle East, and the World Since 9/11: Critical Perspectives,” will feature three UCSC professors…

  • UCSC Farm’s Fall Plant Sale on Sept. 13-14 boosts year-round gardening

    Ignore the catalogs full of wool sweaters and fleece hats! It’s September in Santa Cruz, which means it’s time to enjoy one of the great privileges of life on the Central Coast: As gardeners around the country are bracing for winter, their counterparts here are looking forward to the bounty of another productive growing season.…

  • Education expert offers a sobering back-to-school message

    As the old Bob Dylan song goes, the times they are a-changin’, and educators need to do the same thing: Today’s world of rapid social, economic, and political change demands an overhaul of the goals of education. That’s the message of the new book Learning for the 21st Century (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2002),…

  • Chemical weapons and U.S./Middle East policy experts among those available at UC Santa Cruz

    A frequent consultant to the U.S. government on Middle Eastern affairs and an expert on chemical weapons are among the faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz, available to field media queries as the one-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks approaches. If you have trouble reaching any of them, please call…

  • UCSC professor emeritus ranked among top 100 psychologists of 20th century

    Elliot Aronson, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was named one of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century in a new study published in the Review of General Psychology. Aronson joins names like B. F. Skinner, who topped the list, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, and Albert Bandura. With…

  • Relationship of labor organization and dance explored in new book

    Consider this recent New York Times headline: “Radio City and the Rockettes Reach Labor Agreement.” While the juxtaposition of high kicks and labor actions might appear odd, a new book by Mark Franko, professor of theater arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows the relationship has roots going back 70 years. In The…

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSC commencement for new teachers on July 19

    Unique program combines teacher’s credential and master’s degree What: Commencement for 115 graduates of UC Santa Cruz’s Master of Arts in Education Teacher Preparation Program, which offers a combined teaching credential and master’s degree in five quarters. When: Friday, July 19, 10 a.m to 2 p.m. Where: UCSC Quarry Who: 115 students are graduating with…

  • UC Santa Cruz trio teams up to publish children’s book about time

    Psychology professor Dom Massaro’s fascination with time stems from a visit to his son’s second-grade class, where Massaro observed youngsters having trouble learning to tell time. That experience inspired him to invent a kid-friendly clock, the award-winning Kid Klok. His curiosity piqued, Massaro went on to explore the history of time and timekeeping, which he…

  • Ecologist’s memoir Called by the Wild traces birth of environmentalism

    For Immediate Release SANTA CRUZ, CA–Raymond Dasmann’s self-deprecating humor and gift for understatement belie his role as a pioneering environmentalist. Dasmann’s new memoir, Called by the Wild: The Autobiography of a Conservationist (Berkeley, CA: University of California, Press, 2002), reflects his desire to give credit to others, but in fact Dasmann is one of a…

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