Author: Scott Rappaport
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Emeritus academics reflect on 41 years of McHenry Library
The past and the present merged at McHenry Library last Tuesday when three emeritus professors and a founding librarian joined together to reflect on the 41-year history of the UCSC library. Sitting together behind a long table on the spacious third floor bridge between the book stacks and Special Collections–with the sounds of construction emanating…
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UCSC media expert contributes feature to 35th anniversary issue of Ms. magazine
As recently as the early 1970s, very few women in the United States had access to work in newsrooms, press clubs, editorial boards, and radio broadcasting booths. Today, women are employed as writers, producers, anchors, editors, and publishers in nearly every major newspaper, magazine, television network, and radio station across the country. So writes UC…
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Rainbow Theatre to perform six works in November
Rainbow Theatre will present six works directed or written by students this November as the troupe heads into its 14th season at UCSC. Founded by Don Williams, director of Cultural Arts and Diversity for the Student Affairs Division, Rainbow Theatre is on a mission to create a greater understanding of the different cultures that make…
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Regional History Project publishes oral histories of two visionary UCSC professors
The UC Santa Cruz Library’s Regional History Project has just announced the publication of two new oral histories featuring visionary professors who have helped shape the academic development of the campus. The first volume, Edges and Ecotones: The Worlds of Donna Haraway at UCSC, spotlights one of UCSC’s preeminent multi-disciplinary thinkers. A professor of history…
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UCSC professor explores Northern California’s ‘kitsch monuments’
How does a 2,000 year-old tree at Big Basin Redwoods State Park trace the history of imperialism? Who are the “Cave People” at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk? Why were two giant white stone cats erected by Highway 17 in Los Gatos? What is the real story behind the Greco-Roman-style Pulgas Water Temple built on the…
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Film professor provides expert commentary in new box set of rare films
A UC Santa Cruz professor has lent her voice to a 4-DVD box set of 48 rare films never before seen on video. Shelley Stamp, chair of the UC Santa Cruz Film & Digital Media Department, provides the audio commentary for Where Are My Children? in Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film, 1900-1934 (Image…
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Global affairs expert to deliver UCSC’s 2007 Maitra Lecture at Montalvo on Nov. 2
UC Santa Cruz and Montalvo Arts Center will present the seventh annual Sidhartha Maitra Endowed Lecture–featuring global affairs expert and award-winning author Shashi Tharoor–on Friday, November 2, at 7 p.m, in the Carriage House Theater at Montalvo. The chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Tharoor will present an insider’s…
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UCSC appoints associate vice chancellor for enrollment management
Michelle Whittingham has been appointed associate vice chancellor for enrollment management in Student Affairs at the University of California, Santa Cruz, effective October 15. Her role will be to provide leadership for Admissions, the Educational Partnership Center, Financial Aid, Orientation, and the Office of the Registrar, and to collaborate with the Academic Senate and campus…
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Groundbreaking celebration for new Digital Arts building set for Oct. 18
A groundbreaking celebration for the new Digital Arts building will take place on Thursday, October 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Music Center Recital Hall. A reception will follow at 5:15 p.m. in Kretschmer Plaza. The state-funded $25 million arts building is slated to house the expanding digital arts program as well as…
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New Asian American Writers Series kicks off this month
Authors Justin Chin, Alvin Lu, and Jeffery Paul Chan will read and discuss their writing at three separate events in October as part of a new Asian American Writers Series, sponsored by the UCSC Living Writers Reading Series. Organized by Karen Tei Yamashita, UCSC associate professor of literature/creative writing, the series is designed to honor…
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz names new artistic director
Marco Barricelli, an acclaimed actor with a national reputation for performances in both Shakespearean and modern roles, has been named as the new Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Originally from Boston, Barricelli is a graduate of The Juilliard School and has been an actor, director and educator since 1982. He spent eight seasons with…
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UCSC professor’s documentary to premiere at Mill Valley Film Festival
Que Viva la Lucha (Wrestling in Tijuana)–a documentary by UC Santa Cruz assistant professor of film and digital media Gustavo Vazquez–will make its premiere at the 30th annual Mill Valley Film Festival on Saturday, October 13, at 2:30 p.m. Simultaneously, the film will also be screened outdoors in a colonial plaza at the Festival Internacional…