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  • 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…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025