Campus News
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Constitution Day on September 17
Constitution Day is September 17, the anniversary of the signing of our country’s founding document. UC Santa Cruz invites you to discover some of the interesting and informative materials about the Constitution that are available on-line through a University of California web site.
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Lick Observatory will be closed to public from September 12 through October 5
Lick Observatory will be closed to the public from Monday, September 12, through Wednesday, October 5, for building maintenance.
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In Memoriam: Mark Schaeffer
Mark Schaeffer, a longtime UCSC employee, passed away on August 30 at at the age of 83. Schaeffer worked on campus for 35 years and was well known in his position as campus financial controller. Please see the family’s obituary for Mark Schaeffer.
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Someone I’d Like You to Meet…
If you open the Atlantic magazine’s Fiction 2011 special issue, you’ll find “Someone I’d Like You to Meet.” Written by UC Santa Cruz alumna Elizabeth McKenzie, it’s one of nine remarkable short stories included in the magazine by some of the finest fiction writers in the country today.
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New material shows promise for trapping pollutants
UCSC chemists have developed a new type of material that can soak up pollutants from water.
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UCSC in the News
The August 29 issue of the New Yorker magazine featured an extensive article about UCSC’s Dickens Project, titled “Dickens in Eden: Summer Vacation with ‘Great Expectations.”
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Seymour Center recruits volunteers for school programs and exhibit guides
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center is recruiting volunteers to work with the center’s school programs and serve as exhibit guides.
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UC Santa Cruz expert explains origins of political crisis in Nigeria
The car bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria’s capital Aug. 26 is an ominous sign of the increasing militancy of disaffected Muslim youth in Africa’s most populous nation, according to UC Santa Cruz professor Paul M. Lubeck, who spent six weeks this summer conducting research in Kano, Nigeria’s largest city in the predominantly…
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In Memoriam – Dick Pierce
Marine Studies lost good friend Dick Pierce last week. Dick will be missed, but his legacy within the Institute of Marine Sciences will endure.
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UCSC film lecturer Leo Chiang up for Emmy Award in Sept.
Leo Chiang–a lecturer in the Social Documentation M.F.A. Program at UC Santa Cruz—has been nominated for an Emmy Award for his documentary film, “A Village Called Versailles.”
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UCSC in the News
Sociology professor Paul Lubeck appeared on the BBC World Service News Hour discussing the Aug. 26 bombing in Nigeria’s capital and the underlying economic and political strife there. Ten days before the bombing, the New York Times quoted Lubeck on the Islamic insurgency that has since claimed responsibility.
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Andrew Szasz wins highest honor in American environmental sociology
UC Santa Cruz sociology professor Andrew Szasz is the 2011 recipient of the Frederick Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award of the Environment, Technology, and Society section of the American Sociological Association, the highest honor bestowed in American environmental sociology.