Social Sciences
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UCSC Farm & Garden’s weekly CSA and market cart open for the season June 7
The opportunity to obtain fresh, organic produce and flowers from the UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden opens for the 2016 season beginning Tuesday, June 7.
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Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship winner is immersed in public service
Graduating senior Katie Sweeney (Cowell, ’16, community studies) has been awarded the fifth Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship named for the 2002 UC Santa Cruz graduate killed in the January 2011 shooting in Tucson that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).
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Psychology professor featured in NSF video showcase ‘STEM for All’
UC Santa Cruz pyschology professor Barbara Rogoff’s research is featured in the National Science Foundation 2016 “STEM for All” Video Showcase.
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Economics professor outlines rapid success of America’s ‘other one percent’
Nirvikar Singh, UC Santa Cruz professor of economics and director of the Center for Analytical Finance, described the rapid economic success of Indians in the U.S. during a keynote address at TieCon 2016.
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Smoke signals
Graduate student Eric Crosbie’s research delves into cigarette packaging and why some countries have been able to legislate tobacco warning labels while others haven’t.
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Conference to explore questions of precision medicine, bio-data, and ethics
Leaders in genomics, health and informatics, civil rights, bioethics, indigenous rights, science policy, and the social study of health and medicine will gather at UC Santa Cruz this week for a workshop that aims to broaden the public discussion of big data and health.
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Alumna Carmen Perez returns to campus as Chavez Convocation keynote speaker
UC Santa Cruz alumna Carmen Perez returns to campus as keynote speaker for the 13th annual Cesar Chavez Convocation scheduled for Wednesday, May 18, 7–9 p.m. at the College Nine/Ten multipurpose room.
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Strawberry and Justice Festival features music, speaker panels, free strawberries
This year’s annual Strawberry and Justice Festival festival takes place Thursday, May 19 from 4–6:30 p.m. at the Hay Barn at UC Santa Cruz and features live music, free food, and guest speakers.
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Events explore traumatic journeys migrants endure on the way to the border
The series of UC Santa Cruz events on human migration continues Friday and Saturday, May 6–7 with “Rethinking Migration,” the first in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship and part of the Chicano Latino Research Center’s Borders and Belonging series.
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Original crowd funder honored with Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
Before crowdfunding, there was Drummond Pike. The 1970 politics graduate of Stevenson College was awarded the Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award for his accomplishments in combining philanthropy with political activism.
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Hastings Law professor to speak on prisons and transformation of punishment
Professor Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of the Law will speak on the American prison system and the transformation of punishment as part of the continuing UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings Social Justice Lecture Series Monday, May 9.
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Experiencing the 6×9-foot world of solitary confinement
UC Santa Cruz psychology professor Craig Haney is a key participant in a virtual reality form of journalism, “6×9 – a virtual experience of solitary confinement,” by the British newspaper “The Guardian,” that places viewers into a virtual prison cell.