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Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture to feature 50th anniversary screening of honored film
Sharmila Tagore, one of India’s most famous film stars, and Indian art historian Dr. Partha Mitter will be the featured speakers at the fifth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture set for Sunday, October 23 at 4 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz. See poster of event. The event will also…
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Scholar/performer tapped to lead UCSC programs in North Indian classical music
Dard Neuman has ambitious plans for promoting Indian music and culture at UC Santa Cruz. As holder of the university’s Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music, he is responsible for building interest in Hindustani music through a variety of programs–functioning as a combination of academic instructor, concert promoter, event coordinator, sitar…
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Joseph Miller steps down as director of UC Observatories/Lick Observatory after 14 years at the helm
Joseph S. Miller has resigned as director of the University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick), a position he held for 14 years. Miller will return to full-time teaching and research at UC Santa Cruz, where he is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics. Michael Bolte, also a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC, will…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Campus-community coalition will announce plan to reduce alcohol-related problems caused by students off campus
A press conference is planned to announce a comprehensive, integrated strategy to reduce excessive, high-risk drinking by some UCSC students, thereby creating a safer environment for students and their neighbors. The initiative is the work of Campus CURB (Community United to Reduce Bingeing), a newly formed coalition of UC Santa Cruz administrators, students, UCSC and…
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ARCS Foundation scholarships support nine outstanding graduate students at UCSC
Nine UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $100,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2005-06 academic year. The Northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation is the most generous provider of annual private awards to the UCSC campus and has provided more than $1…
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History professor’s research questions common assumption of irresolvable conflict between Christians, Muslims, and Jews
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of history Brian Catlos has spent years researching how Christians, Muslims, and Jews interact. Although his main focus has been on studying ethnic and religious minorities in the Mediterranean during medieval times, Catlos has inadvertently discovered a pattern running throughout history that applies directly to present-day political and social realities.…
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New analysis puts dark matter back into elliptical galaxies
According to the prevailing “cold dark matter” theory of the evolution of the universe, every galaxy is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that can only be detected indirectly by observing its gravitational effects. This theory faced a challenge in 2003, when a team of astronomers reported a surprising absence of dark matter in…