Author: Public Affairs
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Benjamin Britten’s Comic Opera ‘Albert Herring’ at UCSC–June 2-5
The UC Santa Cruz Music Department and its award-winning Opera Theater will present four performances of Benjamin Britten’s three-act comic opera Albert Herring, June 2-5, at the Music Center Recital Hall. Nicole Paiement conducts a chamber ensemble of members of the UCSC Orchestra, plus student singers, in a fully staged production of Britten’s 1947 opera.…
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UC Santa Cruz has lost a dear friend
Chancellor Blumenthal shares the news of the passing of Rita Pister, wife of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Emeritus Karl Pister.
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Time to Renew Parking Permits and Metro Bus Passes
It is time for staff and faculty to renew or purchase parking permits and Metro bus passes for 2011-12.
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UCSC in the News
Seismologist Thorne Lay was quoted in stories about the earthquake risk in Japan in the aftermath of the devastating March quake and tsunami, including a story in Nature and an Associated Press story that ran in the Washington Post.
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TiE Service Award recognizes UCSC entrepreneurship
UCSC was honored with a TiE Service Award for efforts to promote entrepreneurship.
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Appointment of interim vice chancellor of Business and Administrative Services
Christina L. Valentino is appointed interim vice chancellor of Business and Administrative Services.
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‘Searching For Yiddish Land’
“Having been in decline for decades, Yiddish is fading as a spoken language in the United States. But at UCSC, a small group of students and faculty are committed to its preservation…”
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UCSC in the News
History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to The Nation about the government’s response to nearly 60,000 Honduran schoolteachers who went on strike to protest the privatization of public schools.
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UC president responds to ‘May revise’ of California budget
University of California President Mark Yudof says the “all-cuts” budget scenario described in Governor Brown’s revised 2011-12 California budget would double the UC system’s cut, to $1 billion. “A cut of this magnitude would be unconscionable — to the university, its students and families, and to the state that it has served for nearly a…
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Dean of Physical & Biological Sciences
I write to share news with you that Willamette University earlier today announced Stephen Thorsett as the 23rd president of the Salem, Oregon campus.
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Student Forum on Ethnic Studies, May 24
To continue ongoing discussions around the issue of ethnic studies, all students are invited to a forum on Tuesday, May 24, from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. at the Merrill College Cultural Center.
