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Summer child care camp on campus
Early Education Services is launching a new summer camp on campus with child care for children ages 14 months through entering fourth grade. The summer camp will be available with two, five-week sessions, from June 20–July 22 and July 25–August…
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Alums Dana Priest, Richard Harris win prestigious journalism awards
Two UC Santa Cruz alums, Richard Harris (Crown, 1980) and Dana Priest, (Merrill, 1981) have won prestigious journalism awards for their reporting last year on the Gulf oil spill and the national security complex.
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Jane Pinckard joins Center for Games and Playable Media as associate director
The UCSC Center for Games and Playable Media has appointed Jane Pinckard as its new associate director.
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Alumnus Kent Nagano wins Grammy award for Best Opera Recording
Renowned conductor and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Kent Nagano received a Grammy Award for “Best Opera Recording: “Saariaho: L’Amour De Loin” at the 53rd Grammy Awards.
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UCSC scientist uses storm-chasing weather radar to track bats
Storm chasers have become bat counters. A UC Santa Cruz scientist, working with meteorologists at the University of Oklahoma, is using mobile storm-chasing radars to follow swarms of bats as they emerge from their caves each night to forage on…
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UCSC alumni have opportunity to serve on the UC Board of Regents
UC Santa Cruz alumni have the rare opportunity to help shape the future of the University of California by becoming a voting member of the UC Board of Regents.
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Bioinformatics expert Richard Green wins Sloan Research Fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Richard E. (Ed) Green, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering.
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Conference explores right-to-the-city movements
A daylong conference at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, February 26 will explore the growing urban organizing movement. “Whose City: Labor and the Right-to-the-City Movements” will feature leading thinkers and activists in the burgeoning city movement on three panel discussions…
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Computer engineering professor wins Technical Achievement Award
The IEEE Computer Society has awarded a 2011 Technical Achievement Award to computer engineer J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves.
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Seymour Center presents lecture on Pacific coast sea otters
Sea otter biologist Benjamin Weitzman will provide an in-depth look at sea otters along the Pacific coast in a public lecture at the Seymour Center on Sunday, February 20.
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Acclaimed playwright and film director Luis Valdez to visit UCSC
Acclaimed playwright, director, and filmmaker Luis Valdez will join his son–UCSC theater arts lecturer Kinan Valdez–for two special audience talks after performances of Luis’s play “Mummifed Deer,” Feb. 26 and Mar. 4 at the Mainstage Theater.
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Psychology professor’s book explores everyday feminism
In a new book, Aaronette M. White, an associate professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, collects the personal reflections of 18 African Americans who are practicing feminism in their everyday lives.
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UCSC’s Richard Green honored for top research paper in Science
Bioinformatics expert Richard Green has won the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for his paper on the Neanderthal genome.
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Anthropology graduate student wins prestigious Paper Prize
Sarah Bakker, a graduate student in anthropology, is the first UC Santa Cruz student to win the prestigious Paper Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.
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Six small planets orbiting a Sun-like star amaze astronomers
A remarkable planetary system discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission has six planets around a Sun-like star, including five small planets in tightly packed orbits.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz announces 30th Anniversary Season
Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC) artistic director Marco Barricelli announced the company’s 2011 lineup today, noting some exciting new developments as SSC heads into its 30th Anniversary season.
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Arboretum propagates cuttings from the last wild S.F. manzanita
Arboretum staff propagated cuttings from the last known San Francisco manzanita in the wild.
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UCSC astronomers find most distant galaxy candidate yet seen
Astronomers have found what may be the most distant galaxy ever seen, about 13.2 billion light-years away.
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Library wins prestigious award for promotion of Grateful Dead Archive
The University Library is one of five libraries nationwide that has received the John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award—which “recognizes and honors outstanding achievement in library public relations.”
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Rev. Deborah Johnson to receive Tony Hill Memorial Award
The Reverend Deborah L. Johnson, founding minister and president of Inner Light Ministries, has been chosen as the recipient of the third annual Tony Hill Memorial Award.
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Physicist Bill Atwood shares Rossi Prize for work on gamma-ray telescope
The 2011 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to UCSC physicist Bill Atwood, Stanford physicist Peter Michelson, and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) team.
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Sandra Faber honored by American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society has awarded the 2011 Henry Norris Russell Lectureship to astronomer Sandra Faber.
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UCSC to present major West Coast ‘Paul Bowles Centennial Celebration’
The seventh and last international centennial event celebrating the birth of renowned American writer and composer Paul Bowles will take place at UCSC, Feb. 4–6. Conceived by a UCSC music lecturer and inheritor of Bowles’ musical estate, the 3-day event…
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UCSC receives more than 36,000 undergraduate applications for Fall ’11
More than 36,000 prospective undergraduates – the most ever – have applied for admission to the University of California, Santa Cruz for the upcoming fall quarter.
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UCSC, City of Santa Cruz collaborate to improve Santa Cruz Tickets
UC Santa Cruz and the City of Santa Cruz have once again collaborated on their joint ticketing system, Santa Cruz Tickets, working together to upgrade it into a more functional, customer friendly, and appealing online ticket sales site.
