Politics
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New Social Sciences research award honors Martin Chemers
The new Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research in the Division of Social Sciences recognizes senior faculty members who have made major impacts through their research.
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Global affairs expert to deliver UCSC’s 2007 Maitra Lecture at Montalvo on Nov. 2
UC Santa Cruz and Montalvo Arts Center will present the seventh annual Sidhartha Maitra Endowed Lecture–featuring global affairs expert and award-winning author Shashi Tharoor–on Friday, November 2, at 7 p.m, in the Carriage House Theater at Montalvo. The chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Tharoor will present an insider’s…
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Student-led mock trial team makes it to nationals
In only its third year, the UCSC mock trial team made it to the semifinal round of the national college mock trial championship, facing off against powerhouse teams from Yale, the University of Pittsburgh, and Loyola University Chicago.
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Judge Kelvin Filer accepts Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
Compton Superior Court Judge Kelvin Filer (B.A. politics, 1977) made a whirlwind visit to campus last week to accept the second Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award, meet with students, and field questions from aspiring attorneys during a legal stud
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UCSC lecturer Ryan Coonerty publishes Etched in Stone, a tribute to 50 memorials and monuments
Anyone who has ever gotten goose bumps visiting the Lincoln Memorial will be drawn to the new book Etched in Stone: Enduring Words from Our Nation’s Monuments.
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Leading Iraq expert Juan Cole to discuss crisis January 17 at UC Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Juan Cole, professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan and the moderator of the highly acclaimed blog “Informed Comment,” will discuss the Iraq war on Wednesday, January 17, at 7 p.m. in the Colleges Nine and Ten Mult
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Free public forum on Persian Gulf crisis Nov. 2 at Veterans Memorial Hall in Santa Cruz
The public is invited to a free panel discussion about the Persian Gulf Crisis with an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq, an expert on international terrorism, and a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kashmir. Alan Richards (Photo: Jim MacKenzie) The town hall forum, “The Persian Gulf:…
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Business influence over environmental policy and regulation is targeted, says author of new book
Business influence over environmental policy and regulation in the United States is strategic and focused, says the author of the new book “Corporate America and Environmental Policy: How Often Does Business Get Its Way?” Sheldon Kamieniecki. (Jim MacKenzie) Business interests are more selective about exerting their influence than is commonly believed, and when they do…
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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to present annual Maitra Lecture at UC Santa Cruz
Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen will deliver the sixth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, October 7, at the Music Center Recital Hall. He will speak on the topic: “The Tyranny of Identity.” The lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by a screening of renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray’s…
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Academic Senate announces 2005-06 Excellence in Teaching Awards
Seven faculty members and 10 teaching assistants have been honored with 2005-06 Excellence in Teaching Awards for their exemplary and inspiring teaching. Selected by the UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Teaching and the Graduate Council, the winners of the 2005-06 Excellence in Teaching Awards awards were recognized by Chancellor Denice D. Denton and Committee on…
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Journalist who broke CIA prison story speaks March 6 at UC Santa Cruz
Dana Priest, the award-winning Washington Post reporter who broke the story about the CIA’s secret overseas prisons, will give a free public lecture March 6 at UC Santa Cruz. Her talk, titled “The CIA’s Secret War,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room. Priest, who earned a bachelor’s degree…
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Three UCSC professors and two graduate students honored for teaching
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Three professors and two graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were honored for their teaching today (Thursday, September 29). The Division of Social Sciences presented the division’s Distinguished Teaching Award, known as the “Golden Apple Award,” during the dean’s annual fall convocation. The awards recognize outstanding undergraduate teaching in the…