Author: Scott Rappaport
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UCSC acquires new teaching tool for opera students
UC Santa Cruz opera students may find preparing for their roles a bit easier in the future thanks to a new teaching tool just donated to the campus library. Opera Practice Perfect is a comprehensive audio catalog of 209 CDs, including 20 operas in both complete versions and broken into operatic roles, and 15 discs…
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New UCSC library publications document agricultural history of Santa Cruz County
A trio of oral history volumes documenting two vastly different aspects of local agriculture in Santa Cruz County has just been published by the University Library’s Regional History Project. The Early History of UC Santa Cruz’s Farm and Garden takes a detailed look at the emergence of the organic gardening and farming movement in Santa…
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Santa Cruz Film Festival spotlights UCSC faculty on May 30
The Santa Cruz Film Festival will spotlight works by faculty of the UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media Department on Friday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Media Theater on the campus. Admission is $8 general, $7 students. The program will include selected personal films by department chair Chip Lord, Associate Professor Lawrence…
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UC Santa Cruz honors 2003 Irwin Scholars at Sesnon Art Gallery
Julia DeGuzman decided to apply to UC Santa Cruz four years ago during a trip down from Oakland to visit friends on campus. “I saw the Art Department and I thought to myself, this is where I’d like to create my work,” the 21-year-old senior recalled. Apparently, she made the right decision. DeGuzman has been…
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UC Santa Cruz linguistics professor elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
UC Santa Cruz linguistics professor Geoffrey K. Pullum has joined Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, journalist Walter Cronkite, philanthropist William Gates Sr., Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donald Glaser, recording industry pioneer Ray Dolby, and Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, as a newly elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The 2003…
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New book on Silicon Valley achievers refutes myth of Superwoman
For the past three decades, women have been told that they can have it all–a high-powered professional career, loving family, and satisfying personal relationship–if only they learn how to properly organize their time. But a new book, coauthored by UC Santa Cruz lecturer Peggy Downes Baskin, reveals that the lives of successful female executives contradict…
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Spring celebration of the arts at UC Santa Cruz on May 18
Jazz, opera, dance, sculpture, 3-D art, literary readings, Latin American songs, and Shakespearean theater will emanate from the tranquil gardens of the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum on Sunday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It’s all part of “Art in the Arboretum,” the annual spring celebration of creativity held on the university campus.…
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Art history professor awarded Fulbright-Hays research grant to study in Africa
Elisabeth L. Cameron, assistant professor of art history, has been honored with a Fulbright-Hays research grant to study African culture for the 2003-04 academic year. She is one of only 33 faculty nationwide to receive this prestigious award. Cameron will travel to Zambia in September to examine the visual culture, gender roles, and power relationships…
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UC Santa Cruz to present major conference on ‘Rethinking Anti-Semitism’ May 3-5
The UC Santa Cruz Jewish Studies Program and the Holocaust Center of Northern California will present a three-day conference titled “Rethinking Anti-Semitism: The Holocaust and the Contemporary World,” May 3-5, at the UC Santa Cruz campus. This event will feature prominent scholars from the United States, Poland, England, Hungary, Israel, and South Africa, who will…
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Kodak grants help keep film alive at UC Santa Cruz
A $2,000 grant from the Eastman Kodak Company will help keep film alive in the UC Santa Cruz digital arts program. The grant, which takes the form of Kodak motion picture camera film, was awarded in recognition of the overall program quality of the UCSC Film and Digital Media Department. This marks the third consecutive…
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UC Santa Cruz alumnus makes $10,000 gift to support classics
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Mark Engel has pledged a $10,000 gift to establish the Norman O. Brown Classics Endowment at the University Library. In honor of the late Norman O. Brown, a distinguished humanist and influential professor at UC Santa Cruz, the endowment is designed to enrich the library collection in classical studies. Income from…
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UCSC to present Pacific Rim Festival April 2-30 featuring works of over 40 distinguished composers
UC Santa Cruz will present the work of more than 40 distinguished composers April 2-30 at the 2003 Pacific Rim Music Festival, a month-long international celebration of the contemporary music of the Pacific Rim. The festival will include 12 performances of seven different programs that will take place at the Music Center Recital Hall on…