Social Sciences

If you’re wondering what to do with your little darlin’s during spring break, look no further than the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, where educators have added new programs and activities for the weeks of March 23-April 7. Keep the kids from bouncing off the walls by enrolling them in fun workshops like “An ROV For…

Kids can learn about farm predators during concurrent workshop If those telltale mounds of freshly upturned earth in your garden make you hiss like an agitated house cat, you’ll want to learn the best ways to keep your garden gopher-free during a workshop on Saturday, March 16, at the UC Santa Cruz Farm. Last year…

Learn the art and fun of herbal tea blending on Saturday, March 2, from 1 to 4 p.m. during a low-cost workshop at the UC Santa Cruz Farm. Herbalist and tea blender Julie Rothman will demonstrate the art of making medicinal and beverage teas. She’ll also lead an herb walk through the gardens at the…

Renowned Pomo basketweaver Susan Billy will give a free public lecture on Tuesday, March 5, as the final event in the Merrill College American Indian Colloquium Series 2002 at UC Santa Cruz. Billy’s talk will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Baobab Lounge at Merrill College. Billy, a California Pomo, learned basketweaving…

The National Academy of Sciences published a major report today (February 21) on the environmental effects of genetically modified plants. Deborah Letourneau, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a leading authority on this controversial new technology, contributed to the NAS report and coedited another just-published volume on genetically…

Girls in grades 9 to 12 are invited to explore their interests in math, science, and engineering during an exciting career conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Saturday, March 2. “Expanding Your Horizons in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering” is a daylong event featuring 30 workshops for young women designed to highlight career…

Manuel Pastor, a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named the volunteer Civic Entrepreneur of the Year by the California Center for Regional Leadership. Pastor, director of UCSC’s Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community, is a leader of the movement to forge regional solutions to…

UC Santa Cruz sociologist’s new book reveals the forces that made milk a staple of the American diet Hollywood stars don milk mustaches to ask the ubiquitous question, “Got milk?,” while vegan activists decry cow’s milk as unhealthy and tainted by antibiotic residues, hormones, and genetically modified organisms. Like it or not, milk is a…

An attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will discuss “Tribal Sovereignty Now and in the Future,” on Tuesday, February 5, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Baobab Lounge at Merrill College on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The event is free and open to the public. Raho Ortiz, an Acoma Pueblo attorney, was…

Noted historian Lawrence Goodwyn will give a free public talk about democracy in America on Wednesday, February 6, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the College Eight Red Room at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During his talk, entitled “Reorganizing Democracy in America,” Goodwyn will outline his vision of what’s needed to create a…

What: The launch of the new Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS), an international collaboration to improve science education by integrating the best of the informal learning that takes place in zoos, aquaria, natural history museums, and “hands-on” science centers with the formal learning that takes place in schools. Keynote speaker and former astronaut…

Mary A. Holmes, a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a beloved artist and art historian, died in a Santa Cruz hospital on January 21 after a brief illness. She was 91. Holmes, who grew up in various towns in the West, and in Chicago, began her career…