Alumni
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Geoffrey Pullum to deliver 40th annual Faculty Research Lecture at UC Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz professor of linguistics Geoffrey K. Pullum will deliver the 40th annual Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, February 13, at 8 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall. His lecture is titled “Who Pays Any Attention to the Syntax of Things.” The event is free and open to the public. Pullum was selected…
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UC Santa Cruz assistant arts dean reports discovery of ancient ruin in Peru
UC Santa Cruz assistant dean of the arts Keith Muscutt reported the existence of a previously unknown pre-Columbian ruin in Peru at the annual Institute of Andean Studies conference held at UC Berkeley last week. Located in the remote and densely forested eastern slope of the Andes Mountains, the massive ruin is thought to be…
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UC Santa Cruz receives $350,000 to create global café and reading garden at University Library
Two gifts to UC Santa Cruz valued at $350,000 will work together to create an exciting new social and educational center at the University Library. Stephen Silberstein–cofounder and former president of Innovative Interfaces, a library software company in Emeryville, California-has donated $250,000 to create a global cyber café in the campus’s newly expanded and renovated…
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UC Santa Cruz to present readings by renowned authors Jonathan Franzen and Nathaniel Mackey
The UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division will kick off the new year with two public events on campus featuring nationally renowned, award-winning authors. UCSC literature professor Nathaniel Mackey–winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry–will read from his book Splay Anthem and talk about his writing on Monday, January 8, at 7:30 p.m. in…
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Jingle Shells Art and Book Festival at the Seymour Center on Saturday, December 9
The 87-foot blue whale skeleton at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory will again brighten the holiday season. Fondly known as Ms. Blue, the world’s largest mounted whale skeleton will glow each evening starting December 9 at the lab’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center. To celebrate the holidays, the Seymour Center will host the Jingle Shells…
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UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey wins National Book Award
UC Santa Cruz literature professor Nathaniel Mackey has received a 2006 National Book Award in the poetry category for his latest book, “Splay Anthem.” The winners were announced last night at a benefit ceremony hosted by writer Fran Lebowitz at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. Nathaniel Mackey (Download photo) The awards are…
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Rare bilingual Latino literature conference at UCSC on Nov. 10-11
A distinguished group of writers, editors, and critics will converge on the UCSC campus November 10 and 11 for a bilingual conference on Latino literature, titled “Latino Literature/La Literatura Latina: Writing, Publishing, Reading.” In addition to a series of academic panels, the conference will feature eight nationally recognized writers who will read from their works…
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‘Stunning new memoir’ from UC Santa Cruz professor Bettina Aptheker
At the age of eight, UC Santa Cruz feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker watched her father testify on television at the McCarthy Hearings in 1953. The daughter of historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, she grew up in a lively home environment that often included spirited visits by such renowned family friends as…
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UCSC astronomer Constance Rockosi wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering to Constance Rockosi, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Packard Fellowship, worth a total of $625,000, is one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for young faculty members. Rockosi will receive $125,000…