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UCSC sponsors SACNAS national conference in San Jose, October 27-30
UCSC is supporting the efforts of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
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UCSC’s digital artists take over museum for one night only-Oct. 21
This Friday, October 21, student and alumni artists from UCSC’s Digital Arts & New Media (DANM) program will transform Santa Cruz’s Museum of Art & History into a dynamic hub of new interactive digital art and technology.
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Physicist Bill Atwood awarded Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
The American Physical Society has awarded the 2012 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics to physicist William Atwood.
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UCSC ranked third in research influence in world university survey
In an analysis of the world’s top universities, UCSC ranked third in research influence.
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Two Truths and a Lie
“Two truths and a lie is a creative writing exercise in which students write about three events in their life, two true, one a lie, and the class tries to figure out which is the lie,” says UCSC associate literature professor Micah Perks.
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S.C. City Council to declare official “Day of the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug”
A resolution to honor the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug mascot is on the agenda of an upcoming Santa Cruz City Council meeting.
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Frans Lanting’s multimedia show to highlight UCSC evening at Flint Center
For more than two decades, acclaimed nature photographer Frans Lanting has documented wildlife from the Amazon to Antarctica, in an effort to promote understanding about the Earth and its natural history. On October 15, he will join with the campus for a remarkable evening of art, science and life, at the Flint Center in Cupertino.
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The New McHenry: It’s Not Your Parents’ Library
I’m sitting in a “Group Study” room of the newly renovated McHenry Library at UC Santa Cruz and I’ve got to admit—I’m pretty relaxed.
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Someone I’d Like You to Meet…
If you open the Atlantic magazine’s Fiction 2011 special issue, you’ll find “Someone I’d Like You to Meet.” Written by UC Santa Cruz alumna Elizabeth McKenzie, it’s one of nine remarkable short stories included in the magazine by some of the finest fiction writers in the country today.
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UCSC’s Dickens Project featured in August issue of New Yorker
In the August 29 issue of the New Yorker, staff writer Jill Lepore has written a fascinating feature story about the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz.
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UC Santa Cruz receives $500,000 gift to establish George Hitchcock poetry endowment
UC Santa Cruz has received a gift of $500,000 to establish The George P. Hitchcock Modern Poetry Fund at Porter College.
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UCSC’s annual literary celebration of Charles Dickens ‘full to bursting’ this summer
In 2005, San Francisco Chronicle book critic David Kipen observed that the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz “may just be literary California’s best-kept secret. “Now in 2011, that secret is definitely out.