Campus News
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UCSC in the News
UCSC in the News is a weekly column summarizing prominent media placements UCSC faculty, staff, and students have received.
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Alumnus-lecturer creates Renaissance-style paintings for Wisconsin church
For the past year, UCSC alumnus and Art Department lecturer Noah Buchanan has been working to create two larger-than-life paintings for a new Renaissance-style church recently built in Wisconsin. Next week, the 11-foot tall and 4.5-foot wide oil paintings will be carefully packed into a large wooden crate and shipped by truck to LaCrosse, Wisconsin,…
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Recruitment Management System – Phase II Implementation
In September 2005 the Staff Human Resources implemented Phase I of the Recruitment Management System (RMS) which replaced the manual paper-based process utilized to facilitate Open and Campus-Only recruitments. Phase II implementation is scheduled to begin May 15, 2008. This roll out will include Non-Recruitment and Waiver of Recruitment processing capabilities as well as general…
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Go East, young man: Alumnus Mark Headley says UCSC prepared him for work he never dreamed of–investing in Asia
When he graduated from UCSC in 1983, Mark Headley (B.A. politics and economics, Stevenson College) had a mean fencing game and a deep understanding of the political and economic factors shaping Asia.
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Shopping Our Way to Safety: Sociology professor Andrew Szasz says ‘buying green’ may be lulling consumers into a false sense of security
Like a marketer’s dream come true, Americans have responded to environmental degradation by shopping, as if buying bottled water and organic vegetables will protect them from pollution.
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Improve teacher quality and retention by broadening teacher preparation, professor says
Aspiring teachers come to the profession with a wealth of life experience that shapes their training, their work in the classroom, and their longevity in the occupation, says the author of the new book Teaching What They Learn, Learning What They Live
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Science as the Muse for Art: Melissa Gwyn paints ‘Molecules That Matter’
Assistant professor of art Melissa Gwyn has contributed four paintings to an unusual exhibition, “Molecules That Matter,” at Skidmore College’s Tang Museum.
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Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew receives faculty award from Division of Social Sciences
Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew’s pathbreaking research on racism has earned him international honors as well as the admiration of his peers at UC Santa Cruz, who have named him the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty
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UCSC alumna Dana Priest wins Pulitzer Prize for Walter Reed exposé
Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her work exposing the government’s secret ‘black site’ prisons, has won journalism’s highest honor again, this time for her exposé of the mistreatment of wounded veteran
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Spring’s the thing at Quarry Plaza
Quarry Plaza comes alive with bustling movement and color as students check out offerings from various organizations.
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Santa Cruz AIDS Walk, April 19, raises money for outreach, awareness
Join hundreds of participants for the 18th Annual Santa Cruz AIDS Walk on Saturday, April 19. The walk raises money for HIV-related programs and to increase HIV/AIDS awareness in Santa Cruz.