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  • EDITOR’S ADVISORY: California water expert available to journalists

    A UCSC faculty member who is a leading expert on California’s complicated water rights and delivery system is available to assist journalists with their coverage of the state’s ongoing water crises. What: Leading expert on California water policy Why: State water officials are monitoring the Sierra snowpack in hopes precipitation totals will pick up before…

  • It’s not just about gender, sociologist says of adolescent girls

    In her new book, Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity, Julie Bettie calls for an overt discussion of social class–along with race and gender–as the key to ending educational inequality. “Young women are negotiating the multiple axes of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as they come of age, but that complexity often gets overlooked…

  • UC Santa Cruz prof will lead Latin American Studies Association

    Sonia Alvarez, an associate professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected to lead the Latin American Studies Association. Alvarez will begin her 18-month term as vice president in May and will serve as president from November 2004 through April 2006, presiding over the group’s international congress in March 2006.…

  • $1 million gift from philanthropist Jack Baskin to UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering supports new building and new department

    Retired engineer and philanthropist Jack Baskin has once again demonstrated his strong support for the engineering school that bears his name with a gift of $1 million to the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Baskin’s latest contribution will help fund a new engineering building now under construction on the…

  • Utopia scholar to deliver annual UCSC faculty research lecture

    UCSC professor of history Jonathan Beecher will deliver the 36th annual Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, March 11, at 8 p.m. in the Second Stage Theater on campus. The event is free and open to the public. Beecher was selected by UCSC faculty members for the prestigious honor given in recognition of outstanding research achievements…

  • UCSC faculty vote to oppose war in Iraq

    UCSC’s Academic Senate, holding its winter-quarter meeting today (Wednesday, February 19), voted overwhelmingly for a resolution opposing “unilateral U.S. military intervention in Iraq.” The vote was 58-0 with two members of the senate abstaining. Adopted resolution Brought to the floor by Assistant Professor Paul Ortiz of UCSC’s Community Studies Department and amended by faculty members,…

  • UC Santa Cruz and CNET investigation results in arrest of four students

    Following a four-month joint investigation by UC Santa Cruz Police Department and members of the Santa Cruz County Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET), police officers served search and arrest warrants this morning (Tuesday, February 18) at Porter College. Four UCSC students were arrested and booked into Santa Cruz County jail. Officers seized psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, mescaline,…

  • Transition to college is subject of UC study

    Like moving or taking a new job, the transition to college is a major change, and the University of California is conducting an in-depth study of first-year college students to learn more about the challenges and rewards that accompany the milestone. UC Santa Cruz team conducts in-depth study of first-year students “The university has put…

  • New studies reveal connections between oceanographic processes and rockfish populations

    More than 60 species of rockfish live along the U.S. West Coast, including about 10 commercially important species (often sold as red snapper) that inhabit the shallow rocky reefs and kelp beds of the California coast. Like most marine fish, rockfish produce larval young that spend the first few months of their lives drifting about…

  • UCSC literature professor links Santa Cruz to international theater event for peace

    On March 3, Santa Cruz will join hundreds of cities around the world in hosting a staged reading of Aristophanes’ ancient Greek antiwar comedy Lysistrata. The local play reading is part of the international Lysistrata Project, the first-ever worldwide theater event for peace. As of mid-February, 380 readings have been scheduled in 31 countries to…

  • Gary Novack selected as UC alumni regent by UCSC Alumni Association

    Gary Novack’s loyalties run deep. He still has his student ID card from his days as an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1970 to 1973. And when he returned to UCSC this month, an old alumni volunteer name badge was in his pocket. Those loyalties will be put to good use…

  • Folksinger Rosalie Sorrels to give free concert at UC Santa Cruz Library

    Folksinger, storyteller, and social activist Rosalie Sorrels will present a free public concert, Friday, February 14, at 4:30 p.m. at the UC Santa Cruz Library’s Special Collections. Social activist will donate peace quilt to archives in Special Collections During the event, Sorrels will officially present the Peace Quilt to her growing archive at UCSC. Since…

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