Alumni
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Art professor to screen new documentary film at Museum of Modern Art
UC Santa Cruz art professor and multimedia artist Elizabeth Stephens and her artistic collaborator Annie Sprinkle will present their latest film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Ready, set, give!
Mark your calendars for the give-fest of the year. Giving Day, a high-octane 24-hour online festival of nonstop giving, returns to UC Santa Cruz on February 27.
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Diller Lecture to feature talk on the history of Jews, human rights, and global democracy
Guest author and scholar James Loeffler will deliver the 2019 Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies on Wednesday, February 20, at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Tech titan returns to campus, shares tales of survival
Alumnus Michael Lopp is vice president of engineering at Slack, the popular team-building platform, and the author of two books and a blog about leadership.
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Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen receives Foundation Medal
UC Santa Cruz presented Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen with the Foundation Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the campus.
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Staff member recognized by Association of Energy Engineers
UC Santa Cruz Assistant Energy Manager Sarah Gilchrist this year earned the Association of Energy Engineers’ Young Energy Professional of the Year award.
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Question Bridge: Black Males exhibition opens Feb. 6 at Sesnon Art Gallery
‘Question Bridge: Black Males’ is an exhibition in which a wide array of videos have been merged together to simulate face-to-face conversations between a diverse group of more than 160 black men across the United States.
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Jody Greene and Mary Beth Pudup named to inaugural board of UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
UC Santa Cruz professors Jody Greene and Mary Beth Pudup are among 19 leading University of California scholars who have been named to the inaugural academic advisory board of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
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Mentoring for a new millennium
Until recently, higher education faculty and staff were largely left to intuit the qualities of a good mentor or to replicate the mentoring habits–skillful or unskillful–that they themselves experienced as undergraduates, graduate students, or postdoctoral researchers.
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Madeleine Albright in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning UCSC alumna Martha Mendoza on Feb. 5
Madeleine Albright, the first United States female Secretary of State, will speak about her new book, “Fascism: A Warning”–in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UC Santa Cruz alumna Martha Mendoza–on Tuesday, February 5, at the at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz.
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Art professor receives 2019 Creative Capital Award plus SFFILM artist residency for new documentary film
UC Santa Cruz professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones has received a 2019 Creative Capital Award for “Run With It,” a feature-length animated documentary film she is currently working on in collaboration with San Francisco artist Nomi Talisman.