Events
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UCSC Arboretum holds annual Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, April 20
This year’s spring plant sale will feature some of the newest treasures from the UCSC Arboretum.
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Energy storage symposium addresses important issues for renewable energy
UCSC Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems partners with Joint Venture Silicon Valley in April 11 symposium.
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UCSC workshop March 30 reveals the fine points of composting
Learn what it takes to make quality compost happen at the “Compost for the Home Garden and Orchard” workshop Saturday, March 30, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Alan Chadwick Garden on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz announces lineup for 2013 season
Shakespeare Santa Cruz will open with the popular comedy, “The Taming of the Shrew,” and continue through Sept. 1 with “Henry V” and “Tom Jones.” For the first time, all shows will take place outdoors among the redwoods in the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen.
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Works by UCSC music professor to be featured at Smithsonian
Thousand Gates, a concert featuring two new works by UC Santa Cruz professor of music Hi Kyung Kim, is set to be performed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., on April 7.
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Student robotics competition on March 13 features Star Trek theme
Robotic “starships” built by UCSC engineering students will face off in a free public demonstration on Wednesday, March 13.
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Bill Friedland’s emeriti lecture focuses on California wine industry
UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus of Community Studies Bill Friedland will deliver a free public lecture “Trampling Out Advantage: the Political Economy of California Wine and Grapes” Monday, March 4th at 7 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall on the UCSC campus.
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UCSC symposium to address issues of nutrition, health, and food policy
A symposium on nutrition, health, and, food policy is scheduled for Friday, March 8 from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in 261 Social Sciences I on the UC Santa Cruz campus. The public is invited and admission is free.
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Gail Hershatter to deliver 47th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture
UC Santa Cruz professor of history Gail Hershatter will deliver the 47th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, February 12, at 7 p.m. at the Music Recital Hall in the UCSC Performing Arts Complex.
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Exhibition by internationally known environmental artists at Sesnon Gallery
In the mid 1990s, environmental artists Newton and Helen Harrison were asked by the Dalai Lama to create a work of art titled “Tibet is the Higher Ground.” That piece is just one sample of their work that will be on display at UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery, beginning February 6.
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Scholarship Benefit Dinner February 23
Kevin Beggs, president of the television group that produces “Mad Men” and “Weeds,” will speak at UCSC’s 10th annual Scholarship Benefit Dinner, one of campus’s premiere fundraising events.
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Educator, civil rights activist Bob Moses headlines MLK Jr. Convocation
Save Wednesday, February 6, at 7 p.m. for the 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation. Featured speaker will be Bob Moses, a Harvard-trained educator and leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement who later founded the nationwide U.S. Algebra project.