Alumni
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UC Santa Cruz expert explains origins of political crisis in Nigeria
The car bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria’s capital Aug. 26 is an ominous sign of the increasing militancy of disaffected Muslim youth in Africa’s most populous nation, according to UC Santa Cruz professor Paul M. Lubeck, who spent six weeks this summer conducting research in Kano, Nigeria’s largest city in the predominantly…
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Andrew Szasz wins highest honor in American environmental sociology
UC Santa Cruz sociology professor Andrew Szasz is the 2011 recipient of the Frederick Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award of the Environment, Technology, and Society section of the American Sociological Association, the highest honor bestowed in American environmental sociology.
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Researchers win $2 million grant to study spread of bat-killing fungus
Two UC Santa Cruz researchers, Winifred F. Frick and A. Marm Kilpatrick, have won a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to study the spread of a fungus that is decimating bat populations in the northeastern United States.
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EPA administrator speaks of commitment to environmental justice
In her College 10 commencement address June 12, Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, spoke of her commitment to environmental justice and lauded College 10’s focus on social justice.
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UCSC economist expects emerging economies to push for next IMF head
The resignation of the head of the International Monetary Fund sets the stage for a tussle between developing countries and European economies, according to Joshua Aizenman, an international economics expert at UC Santa Cruz.
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UC Santa Cruz students reap the benefits of Measure 43
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of Measure 43, the student-funded Sustainable Food, Health, and Wellness Initiative at UC Santa Cruz that has treated thousands of students to a broad menu of ways to learn about food, including workshops, campus conferences, events, and classes.
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New book questions effectiveness of peace-building workshops
In his new book, UCSC psychology professor Phillip L. Hammack questions the effectiveness of peace-building workshops involving Israeli and Palestinian teenagers in the United States.
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Destiny and development in the Mayan tradition of midwifery
Barbara Rogoff is accustomed to choosing what she will write about. But with her most recent book, “Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town,” the project chose her. The book is part memoir, part ethnography, part research study in child developmental psychology. It’s also clearly a labor of love.
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College Nine celebrates 10 years with film, performances, receptions
Nine is 10. College Nine celebrates its 10th anniversary May 13-15 with a multitude of events including “Peace on Fire: Global Blues, Poetry, & Politics,” a spoken-word and live music performance Saturday, May 14, featuring Angela Davis, Corey Harris, Ekua Omosupe, and Shailja Patel at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
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Scholarship winner reports from National Conference for Media Reform
Corinne Warnshuis, a fourth-year sociology major at UC Santa Cruz, reports from the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston after winning a scholarship to attend.
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SocDoc graduate director wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Renee Tajima-Peña, graduate director of the masters Social Documentation program at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011.