Alumni
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Award-winning actress/UCSC alumna to perform “I Am That I Am: Woman, Black”-Jan. 28
Award-winning actress and UCSC alumna Adilah Barnes will perform her one woman show-I Am That I Am: Woman, Black-on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. in the College 9 & 10 Multipurpose Room. Admission is free and open to the public.
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UCSC professor provides academic expertise for unusual San Francisco art exhibition
When the directors of San Francisco’s Museo ItaloAmericano decided to create an exhibit about Italian Jewish life in the age of the Ghetto (16th-19th centuries), the first thing they did was a Google search on the topic. What they found was UC Santa Cruz
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Career fair peaceful; diverse opinions represented
While students expressed a diversity of opinions on the presence of military recruiters at a campus job fair on Tuesday–the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Programs ran a table at the fair–there were no clashes, and the event went peacefully.
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UCSC film professor commissioned to create art for ‘video walls’ at LAX
UC Santa Cruz professor of film and digital media Chip Lord is one of 20 artists who have been commissioned to create video art works for an innovative installation at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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Eight Slugs receive prestigious Fulbright grants
UC Santa Cruz had eight Fulbright Program grantees in 2007-08–a feat it’s only accomplished twice before in the past 15 years, and a higher ratio of accepted candidates versus applicants than many prestigious private universities.
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Signing up–again: Another big donation from the McCrary family
For the second time, the McCrary family of Davenport has donated a massive redwood timber for UCSC’s iconic sign.
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UCSC Wind Ensemble to perform at Carnegie Hall
The UC Santa Cruz Wind Ensemble is set to perform at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on February 15, 2009.
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Green entrepreneur, urban advocate, author to address King Convocation Feb. 12
Van Jones, founding president of Green For All, a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress, and author of The Green Collar Economy, will speak at UC Santa Cruz’s 25th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation February 12.
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Nurturing Change: Nidya Ramirez works to empower those most in need
Alumna Nidya Ramirez feels a responsibility to help people in difficult circumstances –including immigrants, the poor and working class, refugees, children, and abused women.
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A path of service: Joshua Karrasch helps a rapidly expanding student population–vets
Joshua Karrasch, a former Navy corpsman who spent a tour of duty treating patients in sweltering field hospitals in Kuwait, helped STARS develop a peer-mentor program for veterans.
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Real-life heroes: Deutron Kebebew found mentors, then became one
Although Deutron Kebebew’s life turned out to be something like a movie, it was not the one he had imagined.
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Campus named Employer of the Year for longtime alliance with HOPE
UC Santa Cruz Dining was recently honored as Employer of the Year for being a longtime employer of people with developmental disabilities.