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  • Discover magazine names three UC Santa Cruz professors among the top 50 women in science

    The popular science magazine Discover has named three women on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, among the “top 50 women scientists in the country” in an article in the magazine’s November issue. The issue, which hits newsstands on October 15, features a series of articles about how women fare in science…

  • UC Santa Cruz’s New Teacher Center hosts 300 new teachers at Children’s Discovery Museum October 21

    Several hundred new teachers will be the guests of honor Monday, October 21, when the UC Santa Cruz New Teacher Center teams up with the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose to honor and encourage them at a festive reception at the museum. More than 450 new teachers are getting support from the Silicon Valley…

  • Frank X. Barron, pioneer in the psychology of creativity, dies at 80

    Frank X. Barron, a World War II veteran and a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, died October 6 following complications from a fall. Barron was an internationally influential figure in the study of human personality for nearly half a century. He was 80 years old. Editor’s Note: This obituary…

  • UCSC psychology professor honored for teaching

    Faye J. Crosby, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received the highest honor for excellence in teaching offered by the Division of Social Sciences. Crosby received the division’s 2001-02 Distinguished Teaching Award, also known as the “Golden Apple Award,” during the dean’s annual convocation October 2. Martin Chemers, dean…

  • Renowned scholar and author Norman O. Brown dies at age 89

    Norman O. Brown, professor emeritus of humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Life Against Death and Love’s Body, died October 2 at his residence in Santa Cruz, California. He was 89. Brown’s influential scholarship and teaching encompassed the classics, theology, history, psychology, sociology, and literature, among other disciplines. “He was…

  • ‘Reality’ in art explored in UCSC lecture and film screening

    The explosion of “reality” shows during the last few years might make the viewing public think realism is a concept recently invented by television networks. But in “200 Years of Reality Shows,” a talk by University of California, Santa Cruz, dean of humanities, Wlad Godzich, true realism in the arts is revealed as something far…

  • 30 years of book arts and printmaking in UC Santa Cruz exhibit

    The discovery of an old printing press led to 30 years of fine-press printing now celebrated in a new exhibition at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “Interpreting the Words,” an exhibit of student work created on the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz, will be on display at the McHenry Library from October 2…

  • Scientists will meet at UC Santa Cruz to discuss plans for a fast, mobile drilling system for polar research

    Since the 1960s, scientists have been drilling through the thick ice sheets that cover Antarctica and Greenland, pulling out ice cores that have yielded climate records covering the past 420,000 years of Earth’s history. Now researchers from a variety of disciplines want to deploy a new kind of drilling system that will enable them to…

  • Oct.12 Harvest Festival celebrates 35 years of UCSC leadership in organic farming and gardening

    The annual Harvest Festival at the UC Santa Cruz Farm draws hundreds of families who gather to enjoy music, good food, and the changing of the seasons. This year’s event on Saturday, October 12, will be especially festive as the Farm celebrates 35 years of leadership in organic farming and gardening. Highlights of this year’s…

  • Media Availability/Photo Opportunity–Fatal attraction: Golden Eagles and Power Lines

    Researchers with the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group will handle three tame, approachable, and photogenic birds of prey (golden eagle, peregrine falcon, and great horned owl) as they discuss efforts to solve the problem of bird deaths caused by power lines and other electricity transmission structures. When: Thursday, September 26, at 11 a.m.…

  • UC Santa Cruz and federal fisheries lab join forces in Center for Stock Assessment Research

    Concerns about the sustainability of many West Coast fish populations have led to increasingly tight restrictions on the fishing industry, angering some fishers whose livelihoods are at stake and highlighting the importance of accurate assessments of commercial fish stocks. To help meet the demand for fishery scientists with expertise in the quantitative assessment of fish…

  • UC Santa Cruz prof shares honor for book on life under Jim Crow

    Joining the ranks of Roots author Alex Haley and Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won the 2002 Lillian Smith Book Award for his work on a book of oral histories of blacks living in the segregated South. Paul Ortiz, an assistant professor of community studies…

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