Author: Dan White
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From snails to mandolins: something for everyone during UCSC summer conferences
The UCSC summer conferences have a longstanding reputation for eclecticism and professionalism. Now a campus institution, the conferences bring an average of 10,000 people to campus each summer, serving 65 different conference clients.
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UCSC earns new national and statewide honors for sustainability practices
UC Santa Cruz, long renowned for its sustainable energy practices, has earned two prestigious new laudations: a top spot on a national “Green Honor Roll,” and special recognition for recent energy and water-saving retrofits on campus.
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Recognizing excellence in teaching at UCSC
The 2011-12 Excellence in Teaching Awards honored eight caring professors who inspired their students at UCSC. UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal presented the awards at the Stevenson Event Center on campus.
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A day in the sun for UCSC staff members
Hundreds of UCSC staff members gathered on East Field, danced to a cheeky Cee Lo Green song, ate barbecued marinated chicken, and enjoyed a day in the sun in honor of their work at UCSC. The event, sponsored by UCSC’s Staff Advisory Board, was also a chance for Chancellor George Blumenthal to thank staff members…
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Record crowd returns for a spirited Alumni Reunion Weekend
UCSC’s Alumni Reunion Weekend was filled with inspiring, surprising, and hilarious moments. And it didn’t hurt that the weather was perfect for all three days.
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Lasting friendship, enduring inspiration: J. Herman Blake and Don Rothman move crowd at forum
On Friday night, when emeritus writing lecturer Don Rothman and Oakes College founding provost J. Herman Blake sat down to talk about the transformative power of education, they made than 40 years of UCSC history feel intimate, personal and immediate.
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Teaching luminaries share classroom secrets at Academic Forum
The large crowd that attended the Academic Forum at the Humanities Lecture Hall —one of the cornerstones of the UCSC Alumni Reunion Weekend—had a rare opportunity to hear these and other teaching secrets of renowned educators, ranging from social psychologist Elliot Aronson to noted feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker.
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Jim Urban is the artist behind UCSC’s iconic barn signs
You don’t realize your eyes are fooling you until you stand close to the Barn Theater at UCSC’s main entrance. That’s when you realize what looks like a digitally rendered photographic billboard of Martin Luther King Jr.’s face, for example, is not digital, photographic, or even a billboard. Peer closely and you’ll see dry-brush strokes, a dot…
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Celebrate the Great 88
In 1967, the year of the Summer of Love, a group of UCSC students started an FCC-unauthorized campus radio station that broadcast from a clammy basement and tried to use an upside-down garbage can as an antenna. The broadcasters initially put egg cartons instead of acoustic tiles on the walls, and the disc jockeys played the…
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Oakes College founding faculty trace UCSC’s roots in upcoming forum
Herman Blake,founding provost of Oakes College, and his old friend and UCSC senior lecturer emeritus in writing Don Rothman, will discuss the enduring values of UCSC and the history of Oakes during Alumni Reunion Week.
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Anne Callahan wins 2012 Alumni Association Outstanding Staff Award
Anne Callahan, academic human resources manager for the Humanities Division, is this year’s recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association Outstanding Staff Award, honoring employees who go above and beyond.
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Alumni Reunion weekend: embracing tradition, celebrating innovation
UCSC grads will have many opportunities to reminisce at the Natural History Field Quarter 40th Reunion, a Black Alumni Alumni Reunion, an Oakes College’s 40th Anniversary brunch, a Cowell College reunion and the UCSC Class of 2002’s 10-year Reunion.