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  • Education forum April 5 explores links between schools, community

    Educators and parents seeking a model for education that’s rooted in community and civic engagement will want to attend a free public forum on Wednesday, April 5, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The forum will take place in the Merrill College Cultural Center at UC Santa Cruz. Participants will describe several projects in which students…

  • April lecture series marks centennial of 1906 San Francisco earthquake

    With 1,100 miles of geologically active coastline and most of its 36 million people living near the coast, California is at risk from both earthquakes and tsunamis. In a series of lectures in Santa Cruz on April 19 and 20, titled “Quaking ‘n’ Breaking: Earthquakes to Tsunamis: Then and There, Here and Now,” experts will…

  • Friends of Long Marine Lab will honor Secretary of State Bruce McPherson with Global Oceans Award

    The Friends of Long Marine Lab will present a Global Oceans Award to California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson at the group’s annual Gourmet Dinner benefit event on Sunday, March 12. The award recognizes McPherson for his leadership in the Friends of Long Marine Lab and his commitment to the local coastal environment. Awards will…

  • UCSC presents free public lecture on 1906 San Francisco earthquake on Wednesday, March 15

    With the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake approaching, UC Santa Cruz will host a free public talk next month on the earthquake that devastated San Francisco and marked the birth of modern earthquake science. Mary Lou Zoback, a senior research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, will speak on…

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: You are invited to cover King Convocation, film screenings

    Keith Beauchamp, the filmmaker drawing acclaim for The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, and Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of the national advocacy group PolicyLink, will speak at UCSC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation at 7 p.m. February 28. In addition, Beauchamp will be hosting two screenings of the film to which…

  • Authors of The View from the Center of the Universe will discuss our place in the cosmos in a free public lecture on Thursday, March 9

    In a free public lecture and multimedia presentation next month in Santa Cruz, cosmologist Joel Primack and his wife, Nancy Abrams, will offer a preview of the remarkable ideas in their forthcoming book, The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (Penguin/Riverhead, April 2006). Primack, a professor of…

  • Journalist who broke CIA prison story speaks March 6 at UC Santa Cruz

    Dana Priest, the award-winning Washington Post reporter who broke the story about the CIA’s secret overseas prisons, will give a free public lecture March 6 at UC Santa Cruz. Her talk, titled “The CIA’s Secret War,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room. Priest, who earned a bachelor’s degree…

  • Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich to speak at UCSC on Thursday, March 2

    Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies and president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University, will give the second Fred Keeley Lecture on Environmental Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Thursday, March 2. The talk, titled “One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future,” will take place at…

  • Documentary director, activist to address King Convocation Feb. 28

    Keith Beauchamp, the filmmaker drawing acclaim for The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, and Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and CEO of the national advocacy group PolicyLink, will speak at UCSC’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation February 28. Held at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, the annual convocation will begin at 7 p.m. The…

  • Library ceremony honors UCSC faculty and the books that influenced them

    The Honored Faculty, Honored Books Program at UC Santa Cruz will hold a ceremony next week in celebration of the bond between the written word and the achievement of scholars. The event recognizes UCSC faculty who have attained tenure or received promotion and showcases the books that have influenced them. The faculty and their selected…

  • Nathaniel Mackey to deliver annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture

    UC Santa Cruz professor of literature Nathaniel Mackey will deliver the 38th annual Faculty Research Lecture on Wednesday, February 15, at 8 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall. His lecture is titled “Cante Moro.” The event is free and open to the public. Mackey was selected by UCSC faculty members for the prestigious honor…

  • 2006 Visiting Professor program under way at UC Santa Cruz

    The UCSC Alumni Association Distinguished Visiting Professor program is offering an eclectic mix of disciplines in 2006. Stanford historian Richard White will speak in February; Johanna Drucker, a renowned book artist and authority on typography and visual art, will visit this spring; and Arielle Saiber, who concentrates on the influence of mathematics on the literary…

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