Author: Scott Rappaport
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Grateful Dead donates archives to UC Santa Cruz
At a press conference in San Francisco on April 24, members of the Grateful Dead announced that the band will donate its archives to the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Grateful Dead to announce partnership with UCSC at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium – Watch press conference
PRESS CONFERENCE-APRIL 24, 2008, 11 a.m. Who: Grateful Dead bandmembers: . Bob Weir . Mickey Hart UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal, plus assorted guests Where: Fillmore Auditorium (Poster Room) (1805 Geary Boulevard, SF–Parking available in the Kabuki Cinema lot at the intersection of Geary and Fillmore) Can’t attend? Watch the press conference streamed live…
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UCSC celebrates feminist scholarship with DVD release of lectures by Bettina Aptheker
Feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker has been teaching her acclaimed Introduction to Feminisms class at UCSC for the past 28 years. One of the most influential introductory courses in the field, it has now been captured on DVD through a taping project led by her former students. The new DVD release will be highlighted-along with…
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Alumnus-lecturer creates Renaissance-style paintings for Wisconsin church
For the past year, UCSC alumnus and Art Department lecturer Noah Buchanan has been working to create two larger-than-life paintings for a new Renaissance-style church recently built in Wisconsin. Next week, the 11-foot tall and 4.5-foot wide oil paintings will be carefully packed into a large wooden crate and shipped by truck to LaCrosse, Wisconsin,…
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Science as the Muse for Art: Melissa Gwyn paints ‘Molecules That Matter’
Assistant professor of art Melissa Gwyn has contributed four paintings to an unusual exhibition, “Molecules That Matter,” at Skidmore College’s Tang Museum.
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Maximum Fun: Alum Jesse Thorn woos young listeners with a new brand of radio show
Jesse Thorn (B.A. American studies, Porter ’03) has gone national with “The Sound of Young America,” which first aired at UCSC in 1999.
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UCSC spotlights new music with month-long festival in April
Composers from California, New York, Korea, and Indonesia will be featured in UCSC’s annual celebration of new music, April 5 to 29 at the Music Center Recital Hall.
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Felicia Rice honored with Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship
UCSC alumna Felicia Rice (Cowell ’78)–manager for the Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program-has been awarded a $20,000 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship. Rice is one of four Santa Cruz County artists selected from a pool of 46 visual artists that will receive the grants to pursue their work. The Rydell fellowships were established by…
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Professor honored by Society for American Music
Professor of music Leta Miller has received the Lowens Award from The Society for American Music for the best article published on American music in 2006. Miller was honored for her article “Henry Cowell and John Cage: Intersections and Influences, 1933-1941,” published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. The award was announced last…
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Award-winning journalist Alexander Stille to be keynote speaker at statewide Italian Studies conference hosted by UCSC
Award-winning author and journalist Alexander Stille will be the keynote speaker at a statewide conference presented by the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies at UC Santa Cruz, February 29-March 1.
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Sciences dean donates 357-year-old book to Library’s Special Collections
Dean of Physical and Biological Sciences Stephen Thorsett has donated a first edition of English philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s famous 1651 book, Leviathan, to the UCSC Library’s Special Collections.
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Alums teach UCSC film students about life in the movie biz
Four successful alums in the film industry returned to campus on February 2 for a roundtable discussion on how to succeed in the business of making movies.