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  • UC Santa Cruz professor receives $150,000 fellowship to help save wild salmon

    Dennis T. Kelso, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $150,000 fellowship that will support his efforts to save wild salmon. Kelso today (Monday, September 29) was named a fellow of the Pew Marine Conservation Program, one of only five international recipients recognized each year for…

  • New book on author Paul Bowles is co-edited by UCSC lecturer who inherited famed writer’s musical estate

    Paul Bowles is perhaps best known as the author of The Sheltering Sky, the popular novel that was later turned into a feature film in 1990 starring John Malkovich and Debra Winger. But few people realize that the prolific writer thought of himself primarily as a composer of music. A new book co-edited by UC…

  • UC Santa Cruz professor lauded for work to preserve Bengali films

    The Cultural Association of Bengal has honored UC Santa Cruz associate professor of history Dilip K. Basu with a Distinguished Service Award for his efforts to preserve classic Bengali films. The award was presented at the North American Bengali Conference held at the Long Beach Convention Center in Los Angeles. Basu has worked during the…

  • Three UC Santa Cruz faculty awarded Presidental Chairs

    Three faculty members at the University of California, Santa Cruz-history professor Edmund Burke, III, psychology professor Barbara Rogoff, and literature professor Helene Moglen-have been appointed to Presidential Chairs on the Santa Cruz campus. UCSC Chancellor M.R.C. Greenwood made the appointments, which extend from July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2006. Annual support for each chair…

  • UCSC lecturer honored by state psychological assocation

    Donald Saposnek, a lecturer in psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was honored by the California Psychological Association for making a “Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession.” The association presented Saposnek with the award during its recent annual convention in San Jose. Saposnek is a child psychologist and child-custody mediator. He was…

  • UCSC lecturer honored by state psychological association

    Donald Saposnek, a lecturer in psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was honored by the California Psychological Association for making a “Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession.” The association presented Saposnek with the award during its recent annual convention in San Jose. Saposnek is a child psychologist and child-custody mediator. He was…

  • EDITOR’S ADVISORY: Policy brief examines reforms to global financial system

    A leading economist argues that proposed reforms to the global financial system, drafted in the wake of financial crises that shook the world economy during the 1990s, would fail the test of markets and politics. Current proposals focus on reducing the probability of a crisis and helping bring about the swift resolution of any that…

  • UC Santa Cruz scientist Todd Lowe wins Sloan Research Fellowship

    The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected Todd Lowe, an assistant professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in molecular biology. Lowe, whose research combines computational and experimental approaches to uncover new biology, is among 117 young scientists and economists to receive the prestigious fellowships this year. Lowe…

  • UCSC astronomer John Faulkner to address U.K. astronomy meeting

    The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has invited John Faulkner, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to give the Roger Tayler Memorial Lecture at the National Astronomy Meeting next month in Dublin. Faulkner’s talk, which will take place on April 10, will be the last in a series of five…

  • It’s not just about gender, sociologist says of adolescent girls

    In her new book, Women Without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity, Julie Bettie calls for an overt discussion of social class–along with race and gender–as the key to ending educational inequality. “Young women are negotiating the multiple axes of race, ethnicity, class, and gender as they come of age, but that complexity often gets overlooked…

  • UC Santa Cruz prof will lead Latin American Studies Association

    Sonia Alvarez, an associate professor of politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected to lead the Latin American Studies Association. Alvarez will begin her 18-month term as vice president in May and will serve as president from November 2004 through April 2006, presiding over the group’s international congress in March 2006.…

  • UCSC faculty vote to oppose war in Iraq

    UCSC’s Academic Senate, holding its winter-quarter meeting today (Wednesday, February 19), voted overwhelmingly for a resolution opposing “unilateral U.S. military intervention in Iraq.” The vote was 58-0 with two members of the senate abstaining. Adopted resolution Brought to the floor by Assistant Professor Paul Ortiz of UCSC’s Community Studies Department and amended by faculty members,…

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