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  • UC Santa Cruz chancellor hosted by Korean consul general

    Chancellor Denice D. Denton underscored her value for UCSC’s international perspective at a recent dinner hosted by the Korean Consul General in San Jose. Designed to brief the Korean media and business community about the upcoming Pacific Rim Music Festival at UCSC in May, the event was part of an ongoing effort to promote cultural…

  • UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts Department establishes new student-run production company

    The UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts Department has established a new student-run production company to help ease the transition for undergraduates from academia to the professional theater world. Named “Barnstorm” because of its home base in the Barn Theater at the foot of the UCSC campus, it has been created as a model of a…

  • UCSC oceanographer Kenneth Bruland honored by two major scientific organizations

    Kenneth Bruland, professor and chair of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received two major honors this year: He was elected as a 2005 fellow of the American Geophysical Union and was chosen to receive the 2005 Clair C. Patterson Medal for Environmental Chemistry from the Geochemical Society. Bruland currently holds…

  • Memory research sheds light on why older adults ‘accentuate the positive’

    Age-related differences appear to affect the way adults make and remember their choices in life, suggesting that older adults “accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative in their memories,” according to research published in the current issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology. Age-related changes appear to influence decision making in ways that focus on…

  • Researchers hope to break new ground in high-energy astrophysics with hard x-ray telescope, now up for final NASA review

    Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and their collaborators at other institutions anticipate new insights into the mysteries of high-energy astrophysics as plans for an innovative x-ray telescope progress toward final approval by NASA. If all goes well with a technical study approved by NASA for this year, the telescope should be orbiting…

  • Journalists Amy Goodman and Naomi Klein to speak at UC Santa Cruz

    Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now! program, and Naomi Klein, author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, will each give a free public talk at UC Santa Cruz in February during two separate events hosted by College Ten. Goodman will appear at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, February 23, when she…

  • Indonesian tsunami benefit set for Feb. 12 at UC Santa Cruz

    The UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts Department will present a special benefit performance for the tsunami relief effort in Indonesia on Saturday, February 12, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at UCSC’s Second Stage Theater. The event will feature a dance performance by visiting Indonesian choreographers Irawati Durban and Bulan Djelantik, plus Bay Area gamelan players…

  • UC Santa Cruz professor makes Broadway debut as lighting designer for comedian Billy Crystal’s hit show

    In February of 2003, David Cuthbert received a call from southern California’s La Jolla Playhouse to do the lighting design for a benefit performance by comedian/actor Billy Crystal. The benefit was only scheduled for two evenings, so Cuthbert promptly put together a quick design and moved on with his life. Shortly thereafter, he was hired…

  • Sustainability leader to speak Jan. 27 at UCSC Earth Summit

    Professor David Orr, the chair of environmental studies at Oberlin College and a leading figure in the campus sustainability movement, will be the keynote speaker at UC Santa Cruz’s annual Campus Earth Summit on Thursday, January 27. Sponsored by the Student Environmental Center, the summit will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed…

  • UCSC astronomer awarded top high-energy astronomy prize for work on supernovae and gamma-ray bursts

    Stan Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won this year’s Bruno Rossi Prize for his pioneering work on supernovae and gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions in the universe. The prize is awarded each year by the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. Woosley,…

  • Consumers eager to know more about the environmental and social impacts of the food they buy, survey finds

    Here’s a heads-up for farmers and food retailers: Consumers have a strong desire to know more about the origins and safety of the food they buy, and they’d like to get the information when they make their purchases. That’s the word from researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who surveyed consumers to find…

  • Oracle grant funds UCSC bird group’s education program

    The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $50,000 grant from Oracle Corporation to support the group’s education program. The grant provides funding to maintain and enhance the Oracle Peregrines Outreach Program, which includes presentations to school and community groups on birds of prey and conservation…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025