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"While within a given course an A may be tied to consistent criteria, across courses and especially across institutions, it’s what people in my field of literary studies would call an 'arbitrary signifier.' That is, it means whatever the individual faculty member says it means. Much too often — though not always — in the…

“We have been lucky,” said Dr. Gary Griggs, a coastal erosion expert at University of California, Santa Cruz, of the safety record along the most rugged stretches of this road. Fast-moving debris flows and the underground churn that chews through the concrete can cause fatalities if cars are caught in the erosion. “Almost a century…

"It's a big elliptical hole in the ground, so the extra weight must be hiding somewhere beneath the surface. And an ocean is a natural way to get that," said lead author Francis Nimmo, from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The University of California Santa Cruz's The Deep Read, now in its fifth year, is focusing on Hernan Diaz's "Trust" this spring, culminating with an appearance by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist in May. Sponsored by the university's Humanities Institute, the free program, in which readers dig deep into a text over a series of four…

Festival Art Souterrain, a contemporary art exhibition, will feature micha cárdenas' immersive installation, The Probability Engine: Permafrost and Ice. This project lets you see what would happen if Canada's boreal permafrost melted away. Additional coverage in La Presse.