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  • Two UCSC students win award from CITRIS

    Two undergraduates have won a top award from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). The CITRIS White Paper Competition 2007 was organized by Tom Kalil, special assistant to the chancellor for science and technology at UC Berkeley, to tap the creativity of UC students who want to help translate…

  • UCSC team gives invited tech talk at Google

    Being invited to give a “tech talk” at Google is akin to giving a concert at Carnegie Hall, so Associate Professor Ben Crow of sociology and Professor Suresh Lodha of computer science were honored to take a team of students over the hill May 2 to present the UC Atlas of Global Inequality. Graduate students…

  • Campus invited to Cantú Memorial Colloquium May 18

    The campus community is invited to attend the 5th annual Lionel Cantú Memorial Colloquium at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 18, at the Baobab Lounge at Merrill College. A reception hosted by the Lionel Cantú GLBTI Resource Center will follow immediately. This year’s featured guest is Angel David Nieves, assistant professor in the historic preservation…

  • G. William Domhoff, expert on dreams and power relations, receives UC-wide faculty emeriti award

    G. William Domhoff, expert on dreams and power relations, receives UC-wide faculty emeriti award

    G. William Domhoff says the best thing that ever happened to him professionally was being hired as a founding faculty member at UC Santa Cruz in 1965. The second-best thing was retiring early, which gave him the freedom to focus on his research.

  • Essays about Hurricane Katrina by Wynton Marsalis and others appear in new book

    The weak federal emergency response to Hurricane Katrina fits a pattern of reduced federal government responsibility for public well-being, according to the editor of a new collection of essays about Katrina. John Brown Childs, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and editor of the new book Hurricane Katrina: Response and…

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