Alumni
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Wells Fargo funds coastal sustainability fellowships and graduate program
$560,000 grant will support graduate fellowships and development of a new graduate program.
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LASER talk to spotlight research on pumas, filmmaking, river people, and ancient DNA
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its first LASER talk of 2016 on Tuesday, February 2, on campus at the Digital Arts Research Center.
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Endangered species: American public libraries
Focusing his lens on shared commons that are under threat, alumnus Robert Dawson spent 21 years photographing 526 of the nation’s public libraries.
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Institute of Arts and Sciences to launch campuswide ‘Collective Museum’ Feb. 11
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) at UCSC will kick off its innovative first exhibition project–Collective Museum, by the Portland-based artist group Public Doors and Windows, Feb. 11.
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Holocaust survivor and scholar Hedwig Rose to give public talk at UCSC on Jan. 21
Following her father’s arrest by the Nazis in 1942, six-year-old Hedwig Rose, her mother, and sister spent three years hidden in an Amsterdam cellar by a Christian friend until the country was liberated on May 5, 1945.
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Film by UC Santa Cruz art professor nominated for Academy Award
Last Day of Freedom, an animated short by UC Santa Cruz associate professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones and San Francisco artist Nomi Talisman, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the category of best documentary short.
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Welcome to Winter Quarter
Welcome back for Winter Quarter and Happy New Year. I hope you all enjoyed a restful break.
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UC Santa Cruz alumna to join National Council on the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced today that UC Santa Cruz alumna Patricia Limerick is one of three prominent and accomplished individuals who will join the Endowment’s advisory board.
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Student interest in UC Santa Cruz reaches another all-time high
UC Santa Cruz attracted a record 49,133 applications from high school seniors and 9,969 applications from transfer students—also an all-time high—during the recent application cycle for a total of 59,102 applications.
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Craft becomes art for celebrated Kiowa artist and alumna
Alumna Teri Greeves uses the traditional skill of beadworking to tell stories in new ways, to create a new language that draws people together.
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Ivéta Gourmet to open campus café at Quarry Plaza during winter quarter
The owners of Ivéta Gourmet, who run a popular café on Santa Cruz’s west side, will open a café in the Graduate Student Commons building at Quarry Plaza on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver 2016 Maitra Lecture
The Institute for Humanities Research will present the 15th annual Maitra Lecture, featuring alumnus William “Bro” Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, on Thursday, January 28.