Events
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Peter Raven, leading botanist and environmentalist, to speak at UC Santa Cruz Arboretum
Botanist Peter Raven will give a talk entitled “Saving Plants, Saving Ourselves” on September 9
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UC Santa Cruz graduates featured at SF innovative art and music festival
Interactive art installations by four recent UC Santa Cruz graduates will be featured at the opening night of Soundwave–San Francisco’s innovative biennial three month art and music festival—at the California Academy of Sciences.
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UC Santa Cruz commencements are set for June 13-15
Commencement ceremonies at UC Santa Cruz are scheduled for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, June 13-15, hosted by UCSC’s 10 colleges, as well as the graduate division and the Baskin School of Engineering.
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First annual spring ‘Celebration of the Arts’ set for June 6
On Friday, June 6, the UCSC Arts Division will present its first annual “Celebration of the Arts,” featuring work from students in all six departments of the division.
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Gun control, gun rights, and Second Amendment panel set for Wednesday
Gun advocates, gun opponents, and Constitutional experts will discuss gun control, gun rights, and Second Amendment issues Wednesday, May 28, at 7 p.m. at the Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room on the UCSC campus.
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Acclaimed TV and film producers coming to UCSC on May 28
The 2014 Arts Dean’s Lecture Series comes to a close on Wednesday, May 28, with a special panel discussion featuring prominent artists from the television and film industry.
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Danny Scheie to direct student cast in ‘revolutionary’ rock musical
UCSC Theater Arts professor Danny Scheie will direct a student cast in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical “Rent” at the Mainstage Theater.
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Grad students in the spotlight at Graduate Research Symposium May 9
The 10th annual Graduate Research Symposium will take place on Friday, May 9, at McHenry Library.
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UCSC language students to present International Playhouse
UCSC will present the 14th season of “The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse,” an annual program of fully-staged short theater pieces by students in the Languages and Applied Linguistics Department.
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Acclaimed game designer coming to UCSC’s Digital Arts Research Center
Award-winnning game designer and producer Robin Hunicke will present a talk titled “Expanding Games” on Tuesday, May 6, at the UCSC Digital Arts Research Center.
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DNA Day on April 25 commemorates completion of Human Genome Project
UCSC will host an informative celebration of DNA Day, a national event on Friday, April 25.
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B. Ruby Rich to host lecture series on ‘New Queer Cinema’
This spring, the 2014 Arts Dean’s Lecture Series “Issues in the Arts” features a series of free lectures by guest speakers from the film course “Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Cinema,” taught by UCSC professor and film critic B. Ruby Rich.