Social Sciences
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UCSC cancer survivor will carry the Olympic torch January 18
Elizabeth Conerly was a broke UC Berkeley student as Mother’s Day approached last year, but being penniless inspired her to give the best gift ever: Conerly nominated her mother, Trish Virgadamo, a longtime UCSC employee, to carry the Olympic torch on a segment of its cross-country journey to Salt Lake City. The nomination, and the…
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Mystified by fruit trees? Answers are free on January 12
Have you been lusting after your neighbor’s lemon tree? Attracted by the bounty of a friend’s apple tree? Coveting the apricot tree down the block, yet too intimidated by the care of fruit trees to add these beauties to your garden? Fear no more, for help is on the way. Fruit tree expert Orin Martin,…
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UCSC education prof shares prize from Modern Language Association
Gordon Wells, a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been named corecipient of the 21st annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America. Wells and Hossein Nassaji of Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, shared the prize for their article, “What’s the Use of Triadic…