Campus News
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UC Santa Cruz guitarist has solo track on Grammy-winning CD
Last year, UCSC Music Department lecturer William Coulter recorded a solo guitar track for a CD titled Henry Mancini: Pink Guitar. On February 13, the disc won a 2005 Grammy Award for “Best Pop Instrumental Album” from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Released on the Solid Air Records label, the CD features…
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New satellite observations of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes reveal surprising features of mysterious blasts from Earth
A particle accelerator operates in Earth’s upper atmosphere above major thunderstorms at energies comparable to some of the most exotic environments in the universe, according to new satellite observations of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) are very short blasts of gamma rays, lasting about one millisecond, that are emitted into space from Earth’s…
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Gravity-defying dance performance to be presented by UCSC Arts & Lectures
The work of dancer/choreographer Trisha Brown is well known for its lack of respect for the laws of physics. Throughout Brown’s artistic career that has spanned more than three decades, her dancers have literally walked on walls and down the faces of buildings. Twisting in midair, they have climbed up and down each other in…
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UC Santa Cruz chancellor hosted by Korean consul general
Chancellor Denice D. Denton underscored her value for UCSC’s international perspective at a recent dinner hosted by the Korean Consul General in San Jose. Designed to brief the Korean media and business community about the upcoming Pacific Rim Music Festival at UCSC in May, the event was part of an ongoing effort to promote cultural…
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UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts Department establishes new student-run production company
The UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts Department has established a new student-run production company to help ease the transition for undergraduates from academia to the professional theater world. Named “Barnstorm” because of its home base in the Barn Theater at the foot of the UCSC campus, it has been created as a model of a…
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UCSC oceanographer Kenneth Bruland honored by two major scientific organizations
Kenneth Bruland, professor and chair of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received two major honors this year: He was elected as a 2005 fellow of the American Geophysical Union and was chosen to receive the 2005 Clair C. Patterson Medal for Environmental Chemistry from the Geochemical Society. Bruland currently holds…
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Researchers hope to break new ground in high-energy astrophysics with hard x-ray telescope, now up for final NASA review
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and their collaborators at other institutions anticipate new insights into the mysteries of high-energy astrophysics as plans for an innovative x-ray telescope progress toward final approval by NASA. If all goes well with a technical study approved by NASA for this year, the telescope should be orbiting…
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Indonesian tsunami benefit set for Feb. 12 at UC Santa Cruz
The UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts Department will present a special benefit performance for the tsunami relief effort in Indonesia on Saturday, February 12, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at UCSC’s Second Stage Theater. The event will feature a dance performance by visiting Indonesian choreographers Irawati Durban and Bulan Djelantik, plus Bay Area gamelan players…
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UC Santa Cruz professor makes Broadway debut as lighting designer for comedian Billy Crystal’s hit show
In February of 2003, David Cuthbert received a call from southern California’s La Jolla Playhouse to do the lighting design for a benefit performance by comedian/actor Billy Crystal. The benefit was only scheduled for two evenings, so Cuthbert promptly put together a quick design and moved on with his life. Shortly thereafter, he was hired…