Events
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Gala Scholarships Benefit Dinner to honor former UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood
Supporters of UC Santa Cruz will have a chance to invest in tomorrow’s leaders while honoring one of today’s when they gather for the gala Scholarships Benefit Dinner on November 6. In addition to raising funds for scholarships and graduate fellowships, a highlight of the evening will be the awarding of the UC Santa Cruz…
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UCSC to host only West Coast tribute to late actor, writer, and comedic monologuist Spalding Gray on Oct. 23
The late actor, writer, and comedic monologuist Spalding Gray was scheduled to appear at UC Santa Cruz last March as part of the university’s 2003-04 Arts & Lectures performing arts season. But the show was canceled after Gray was reported missing in January. Gray’s body was subsequently found in New York City’s East River on…
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UC Santa Cruz completes first draft of updated LRDP
UC Santa Cruz has completed the first draft of its 2005-20 Long Range Development Plan. The draft is currently available in PDF format at the following web address: planning.ucsc.edu/lrdp/cmte/drafts/firstdraft_2005lrdp.htm. The first draft of the LRDP will be the subject of a public workshop on October 20.
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Fourth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture/Film Screening set for October 17 at UC Santa Cruz
UCLA emeritus professor and renowned ethnomusicologist Nazir Jairazbhoy will be the featured speaker at the fourth annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture set for October 17 at 5:30 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz. Known as the “father of Indian Ethnomusicology” in the United States, Jairazbhoy has conducted extensive research on…
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UCSC Arboretum, now in its 40th year, holds annual fall plant sale on Saturday, October 9
In the fall of 1964, one year before the first class of students entered the University of California, Santa Cruz, the first trees were planted in the UCSC Arboretum. Some of those plantings have since grown into the graceful trees of the Eucalyptus Grove, where the Arboretum’s plant sales are now held. And the Arboretum…
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UCSC students collaborate with Museum of Art and History to create innovative gallery exhibit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA CRUZ, CA–The Big and Bold exhibit now on display at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History is a prime example of the benefit derived from combining university research with an important cultural institution in the community. The gallery exhibit features an array of large and oversize graphic art from…
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Seymour Center lecture series focuses on women in marine science
The annual fall lecture series at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center this year highlights extraordinary women in marine science. The series, “Women Who Turn the Tides: Setting New Benchmarks in Marine Science,” includes presentations on three evenings in October, starting with a panel discussion on Wednesday, October 6. The other lectures will take place on…
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Supervising producer of Fahrenheit 9/11 speaks at UC Santa Cruz October 6
Documentary filmmaker Tia Lessin, the supervising producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, will give a free public talk on Wednesday, October 6, at UC Santa Cruz. Lessin’s talk, “Documentary Film and Human Rights,” will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Room 150 of the Communications Building. An accomplished filmmaker in her own right, Lessin has…
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Acclaimed New Yorker magazine staff writer and UCSC alumnus to return for speaking engagement at Cowell College
For the past two decades, longtime New Yorker magazine staff writer and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Lawrence Weschler has written about unexpected relationships between art, culture, war, and peace. On Friday, September 24, the 1974 Cowell College graduate will return to the UCSC campus to speak on the topic: “Serenity and Terror in Vermeer, and…