Campus News
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Physicist Stanley Flatté to give UCSC Emeriti Faculty Lecture on Thursday, November 2
Stanley Flatté, professor emeritus and research professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz, will give the Emeriti Faculty Lecture at UCSC on Thursday, November 2. His talk, “World Energy and Power: Facts to Inform your Thinking,” will begin at 8 p.m. in the Music Center Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the…
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Arts & Lectures season opener brings famed world music tour to UCSC
Fresh from its U.S. debut at the steps of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and a stop at New York’s Carnegie Hall last week, “The Spirit of Fès 2006 Paths to Hope” tour comes to UCSC’s Music Recital Hall this Friday evening, October 27, to open the new Arts & Lectures season. This touring…
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‘Stunning new memoir’ from UC Santa Cruz professor Bettina Aptheker
At the age of eight, UC Santa Cruz feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker watched her father testify on television at the McCarthy Hearings in 1953. The daughter of historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, she grew up in a lively home environment that often included spirited visits by such renowned family friends as…
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Statements concerning litigation announced against LRDP
From Kelly Drumm, University Counsel, Office of General Counsel, University of California Regents: The University of California believes that the Environmental Impact Report for UC Santa Cruz’s Long-Range Development Plan as certified and adopted by The Regents at the board’s September meeting fully complies with the California Environmental Quality Act. The University intends to vigorously…
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Visit to UCSC by UC Regents
Yesterday marked the end of a successful visit by UC Regents and other guests to the UC Santa Cruz campus. This was a major event that will provide long-term benefit to UCSC. We were proud to present representative campus distinctions, showcasing students and faculty whose scholarly and interdisciplinary work is both innovative and beneficial to…
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ARCS Foundation scholarships support ten UCSC graduate students
Ten UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $100,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2006-07 academic year. The Northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation is the most generous provider of annual private awards to the UCSC campus and has provided more than $1…
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Planet hunters wanted to help astronomers in the search for new worlds
Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are seeking the public’s help to find and understand planets outside our solar system. But you don’t need an advanced degree or even a telescope to participate–just a computer, access to the Internet, and an interest in astronomy. The project, called Systemic, enlists volunteers to help astronomers…
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Editor’s Advisory: UC Regents host two public comment sessions during visit to UC Santa Cruz on Oct. 18-19
Members of the University of California Board of Regents will visit the UC Santa Cruz campus and its Silicon Valley Center on October 18-19. During their visit, the Regents will tour facilities, hear about plans for the future, and meet key campus leaders, including Acting Chancellor George Blumenthal. The Regents make three informational visits each…
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New book explores culture’s fascination with body modifications
Tattooing.piercing.anorexia.self-cutting.plastic surgery.body-building.the use of life extension technologies–these are all forms of body modification that have become increasingly prevalent in today’s culture and mainstreamed in popular media. A new book coedited by UC Santa Cruz professors Helene Moglen and Nancy Chen, Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations, explores our fascination with altering our bodies, offering…
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UCSC astronomer Constance Rockosi wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering to Constance Rockosi, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Packard Fellowship, worth a total of $625,000, is one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for young faculty members. Rockosi will receive $125,000…
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‘Living Writers Series’ begins October 4 at UC Santa Cruz
The UCSC Humanities Division’s “Living Writers Series” kicks off this fall quarter on October 4 with a presentation by poet Joshua Clover, a widely published critic and journalist, a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and the poetry editor for the Village Voice Literary Supplement. Clover is one of many authors and poets who…