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  • Preventing Columbine: Psychologist Elliot Aronson delivers UCSC Faculty Emeritus Lecture February 11

    Award-winning social psychologist Elliot Aronson will deliver a free public lecture entitled “The Elephant in the Parlor: How the Columbine High School Massacre Could Have Been Prevented,” on Wednesday, February 11, at 8:15 p.m. in the Media Theater at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Aronson, a professor emeritus of psychology at UCSC, is author…

  • Psychologist Barbara Rogoff to deliver UC Santa Cruz faculty research lecture February 5

    Barbara Rogoff, a leading developmental psychologist, will deliver the annual faculty research lecture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Thursday, February 5, at 8 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Rogoff, whose talk is entitled “Learning through Intent Participation in Cultural Activity,” has spent…

  • Organic agriculture at a crossroads: Prof says goals of ecological sustainability and social justice may require subsidies

    Thirty years after the birth of organic agriculture in California, the industry looks more than ever like the agribusiness model it set out to oppose. The early dream of producing food in ecologically sustainable ways has withered under multiple pressures, but an analysis by a geographer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that…

  • UC Santa Cruz offers pruning workshops January 10 and 31

    Two UC Santa Cruz gardening experts will show you how to improve the health and productivity of your apple and pear trees at a three-hour pruning workshop on Saturday, January 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. The class takes place at the Louise Cain Gatehouse on the UC Santa Cruz Farm. UCSC garden managers Christof…

  • Sociologist John Kitsuse, internment camp survivor, dies at 80

    John I. Kitsuse, a second-generation Japanese American who was imprisoned in an internment camp during World War II and became a leading scholar in the field of sociology, died Thursday, November 27, at his home in Santa Cruz after suffering a stroke the day before. He was 80 years old. Kitsuse, a professor emeritus of…

  • Racially mixed juries would provide ‘checks and balances’ throughout criminal justice system, author says

    With jury selection just completed in the trial of John Allen Muhammad, accused of masterminding the Washington-area sniper slayings a year ago, sociologist and jury expert Hiroshi Fukurai says it is time for the United States to revitalize its criminal justice system by requiring that juries be racially representative of the communities in which they…

  • UC Santa Cruz professor receives $150,000 fellowship to help save wild salmon

    Dennis T. Kelso, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $150,000 fellowship that will support his efforts to save wild salmon. Kelso today (Monday, September 29) was named a fellow of the Pew Marine Conservation Program, one of only five international recipients recognized each year for…

  • UC Santa Cruz Harvest Festival October 11 features live music, tasty food, and more

    Grab the kids and celebrate the changing of the seasons at the annual UC Santa Cruz Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 11, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Live music, tasty food, and crafts for kids are only some of the fun that will be available at the UCSC Farm. Admission is free for kids…

  • UC Santa Cruz hosts October 10 symposium on higher education

    The first annual Clark Kerr Symposium, taking place at UCSC on October 10, brings together some of the country’s biggest names in higher education to discuss the unprecedented challenges facing public research universities in the 21st century. Editor’s Advisory NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: You are invited to cover the following event; please call the UCSC Public…

  • New book debunks conservatives’ call for color-blind society

    Ward Connerly’s latest race-related ballot initiative, Proposition 54 on California’s Oct. 7 ballot, would prohibit the state from gathering racial information about students and employees. Connerly says his “Racial Privacy Initiative” is the next step toward achieving a colorblind society. Balderdash, say the authors of the new book Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind…

  • UC Santa Cruz announces recipients of $20,000 scholarships

    This year’s recipients of the annual Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Awards $20,000 scholarships presented by the University of California, Santa Cruz, include two single mothers, a Pakistani immigrant, and an aspiring computer engineer. All recipients receive a $10,000 scholarship for each of two years, as well as the support of a strong academic mentoring…

  • Scholarship enables aspiring teacher to enroll at UC Santa Cruz

    Louise Hagio wants to be a teacher, and thanks to a $5,000 scholarship from the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Youth Fund, her goal is closer than ever. Hagio, 30, is enrolling this month at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she plans to major in history with a minor in education. She hopes…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025