Author: Public Affairs
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African American musicians reflect on what is this thing called jazz?
Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes representing black accomplishment and virtuosity; sometimes a symbol of segregation and creative limitations. It’s a dichotomy that extends from the word to the music as…
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Local children featured in ‘listening to the earth’ performance
Try this recipe for a special performance event: Take the leadership of Tandy Beal, a theater arts instructor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Add 40 UC Santa Cruz students. Mix well with 200 young local students, their teachers, and community members. Blend in weeks of schools visits, teaching, and practice. The result? Listening…
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Author explores ‘bridge of migrations’ between Japan and Brazil
Japan and Brazil: It’s hard to image two countries further apart, or two cultures more disparate. But after almost a century of economic and social ties, Japan and Brazil have built a “dynamic bridge of migrations,” says author Karen Tei Yamashita. Her book Circle K Cycles (Coffee House Press, 2001) explores these connections through the…
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Film retrospective of acclaimed director fulfills deathbed promise
Satyajit Ray’s movies to be shown in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles A deathbed promise to the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Satyajit Ray has led to the first comprehensive American retrospective of Ray’s films. The Complete Satyajit Ray: Cinema Through the Inner Eye, which includes more than 35 feature films and documentaries produced from 1955 to…
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How pox virus fools immune system
Researchers Uncover How A Pox Virus Fools The Immune System SANTA CRUZ, CA–Research on a rabbit pox virus has shed light on how some viruses sneak past our immune defenses. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have found three separate mechanisms by which the pox virus, myxoma, silences the messengers that would normally…
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Deep-diving sea lions
Deep-diving Sea Lions Pushed To Edge Of Physical Limit, Study Shows SANTA CRUZ, CA–A new study may help explain why certain species of marine mammals seem particularly vulnerable to changes in their food supply. Researchers have found that some deep-diving sea lions already work so hard searching for food that their ability to increase the…
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UCSC to host public workshop on marine lab long-term plan
UCSC Will Hold Fourth Community Meeting On Plans For Long Marine Laboratory On Monday, July 30 SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, will hold a public workshop on Monday, July 30, to discuss progress toward developing a Coastal Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) for Long Marine Laboratory. The meeting will take place from…
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Clues to submarine quakes
Researchers Seek Clues To Submarine Quakes At Plate Collision Zone In Japan’s Nankai Trough SANTA CRUZ, CA–Seeking new clues to the cause of some of the Earth’s most powerful earthquakes, an international group of scientists aboard the Ocean Drilling Program vessel JOIDES Resolution is using special technology to measure and monitor physical properties at a…
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Provosts appointed, reappointed at UCSC
Four College Provosts Appointed, Two Reappointed At UCSC SANTA CRUZ, CA–Four UCSC faculty have been newly named to the position of college provost. The new provosts are Professor Joel Ferguson, Crown College; Associate Professor Margo Hendricks, Stevenson College; Professor David Evan Jones, Porter College. In addition, Lecturer Conn Hallinan has been appointed Associate Provost of…
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UCSC second in physical sciences
UC Santa Cruz Ranked Second Worldwide In Physical Sciences Research SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, is the second most influential university in the world in the physical sciences, according to rankings of research universities and other institutions published recently by the British newspaper The Guardian. The rankings are based on an analysis…
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UC Santa Cruz Ranked Second Worldwide In Physical Sciences Research
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The University of California, Santa Cruz, is the second most influential university in the world in the physical sciences, according to rankings of research universities and other institutions published recently by the British newspaper The Guardian. The rankings are based on an analysis of scholarly publications from 1994 to 1998. Data for the…
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FIPSE Grant Will Help UCSC Establish ‘Spanish Without Walls’ Web Classroom
SANTA CRUZ, CA–According to the visionary speculations of the web wizards and Internet gurus, over-the-counter purchases should have been just about obsolete by now. By the middle of 2001, we were expected to be suckling at the teat of technology for all our needs–credit card numbers whizzing through cyberspace in an orchestrated orgy of high-tech…