Author: Scott Rappaport
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UCSC to celebrate Grand Opening of Digital Arts Research Center on April 29
UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the arts and a commitment to collaboration, innovation, and community on Thursday, April 29, when the campus officially opens its new Digital Arts Research Center.
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UCSC theater faculty up for eight Bay Area Critics Circle Awards
Theater Arts faculty at UC Santa Cruz have received eight nominations for the 2009 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards.
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UCSC featured in March issue of Atlantic magazine
The March issue of The Atlantic features a story by senior editor Joshua Green on the Library’s Grateful Dead Archive.
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Sandra Chung elected vice president of Linguistic Society of America
UCSC professor of linguistics Sandra Chung has been elected as vice president and president-elect of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
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Gail Hershatter elected vice-president of Association for Asian Studies
History professor Gail Hershatter has been elected vice-president of the Association for Asian Studies.
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UC Santa Cruz lecturer named first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County
UC Santa Cruz humanities lecturer Gary Young has been named the first-ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County.
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Humanities professor wins 2009 prize for scholarly outreach
Professor of classics and comparative literature Mary-Kay Gamel has been awarded the 2009 Prize for Scholarly Outreach from the American Philological Association (APA)–the national classics association
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Award-winning women writers to be featured in UCSC’s 2010 Living Writers Series
How do women writers view history differently than men? That’s the key question posed by “Another Look: Women Writers Re-Vision History”–the winter installment of UCSC’s annual Living Writers Series.
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Literature professor’s book makes Choice magazine’s list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Literature professor Rob Wilson’s book “Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics” (Harvard University Press) has been selected as one of Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009.
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UCSC philosophy students win regionals in national Ethics Bowl competition
A team of UCSC philosophy students won first place this past weekend at the California Regional Ethics Bowl Tournament held in Chico, qualifying them to compete in the National Ethics competition on March 4 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

