Faculty
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History professor finds powerful women’s labor movement in Latin America
In 2001, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank was asked by the U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project (US/LEAP), a Chicago nonprofit, to develop a union label for the U.S. banana market. Frank signed on as a consultant and traveled to Central America to attend union workshops and regional conferences. She stayed with…
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Two UCSC engineering professors named IEEE Fellows
Two faculty members of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). They are J. J. García-Luna-Aceves, Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering, and Darrell Long, Malavalli Professor of Storage Systems Research. The IEEE Board of Directors confers this…
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Living with the Changing California Coast: Essential reading for coast dwellers from UCSC geologists
The famously beautiful California coast is a powerful attractor, drawing people to live and build in the coastal zone despite ongoing erosion, periodic storm damage, and regulatory hurdles. For those determined to live next to this dynamic shoreline, the new book Living with the Changing California Coast should be required reading. Written by Gary Griggs,…
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UC Santa Cruz professor receives $200,000 grant to fund summer institute in Venice, Italy
UCSC professor of English and comparative literature Murray Baumgarten has been awarded a $195,452 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a summer institute for college and university teachers in Italy. Titled “Venice, the Jews and Italian Culture: Historical Eras and Cultural Representations,” the institute is scheduled to take place in Venice…
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History professor’s research questions common assumption of irresolvable conflict between Christians, Muslims, and Jews
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of history Brian Catlos has spent years researching how Christians, Muslims, and Jews interact. Although his main focus has been on studying ethnic and religious minorities in the Mediterranean during medieval times, Catlos has inadvertently discovered a pattern running throughout history that applies directly to present-day political and social realities.…
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New analysis puts dark matter back into elliptical galaxies
According to the prevailing “cold dark matter” theory of the evolution of the universe, every galaxy is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that can only be detected indirectly by observing its gravitational effects. This theory faced a challenge in 2003, when a team of astronomers reported a surprising absence of dark matter in…