Events
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UCSC alumna Dana Priest wins Pulitzer Prize for Walter Reed exposé
Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her work exposing the government’s secret ‘black site’ prisons, has won journalism’s highest honor again, this time for her exposé of the mistreatment of wounded veteran
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Award-winning journalist Alexander Stille to be keynote speaker at statewide Italian Studies conference hosted by UCSC
Award-winning author and journalist Alexander Stille will be the keynote speaker at a statewide conference presented by the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies at UC Santa Cruz, February 29-March 1.
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Max M. Levin, former psychology instructor and Crown preceptor, dies at 91
Max M. Levin, a lecturer emeritus of psychology whose ties to the campus go back to 1967, died on Saturday, February 16, in Portland, Oregon. He was 91.
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Animated tutors help remedial readers, language learners, autistic children
Tools developed by researchers exploring language and speech comprehension can become powerful aids for remedial readers, children with language challenges, and anyone learning a second language, according to psychology professor Dominic Massaro of the Un
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NAACP chairman to address King Convocation Jan. 30
Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak at UCSC’s 24th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation January 30.
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Holiday parties bring in the season
UCSC staff and faculty are invited to a pair of holiday parties to celebrate the season.
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Exceptions to campus holiday closure
As in the past, the UCSC campus will close during the holiday season in an effort to conserve energy at a time when university business is generally slow. This year the campus will be closed from Saturday, December 22, 2007 through Tuesday, January 1, 2008, re-opening on Wednesday, January 2, 2008. The campus community is…
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Avant-garde video-game blog earns art exhibition at UC Irvine’s Beall Center
UCSC computer scientist Michael Mateas presents four works of artificial intelligence and empathy at a new art exhibit.
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HP’s Stanley Williams to discuss nanoscale computing at UCSC’s Silicon Valley Center on October 25
R. Stanley Williams, a senior fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and founding director of HP’s Quantum Science Research group, will discuss nanoscale computing in a free public lecture on Thursday, October 25.