Dan White
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Recognizing excellence in teaching at UCSC
The 2011-12 Excellence in Teaching Awards honored eight caring professors who inspired their students at UCSC. UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal presented the awards at the Stevenson Event Center on campus.
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A day in the sun for UCSC staff members
Hundreds of UCSC staff members gathered on East Field, danced to a cheeky Cee Lo Green song, ate barbecued marinated chicken, and enjoyed a day in the sun in honor of their work at UCSC. The event, sponsored by UCSC’s Staff Advisory Board, was also a chance for Chancellor George Blumenthal to thank staff members…
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Record crowd returns for a spirited Alumni Reunion Weekend
UCSC’s Alumni Reunion Weekend was filled with inspiring, surprising, and hilarious moments. And it didn’t hurt that the weather was perfect for all three days.
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Lasting friendship, enduring inspiration: J. Herman Blake and Don Rothman move crowd at forum
On Friday night, when emeritus writing lecturer Don Rothman and Oakes College founding provost J. Herman Blake sat down to talk about the transformative power of education, they made than 40 years of UCSC history feel intimate, personal and immediate.
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Teaching luminaries share classroom secrets at Academic Forum
The large crowd that attended the Academic Forum at the Humanities Lecture Hall —one of the cornerstones of the UCSC Alumni Reunion Weekend—had a rare opportunity to hear these and other teaching secrets of renowned educators, ranging from social psychologist Elliot Aronson to noted feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker.
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Jim Urban is the artist behind UCSC’s iconic barn signs
You don’t realize your eyes are fooling you until you stand close to the Barn Theater at UCSC’s main entrance. That’s when you realize what looks like a digitally rendered photographic billboard of Martin Luther King Jr.’s face, for example, is not digital, photographic, or even a billboard. Peer closely and you’ll see dry-brush strokes, a dot…
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Celebrate the Great 88
In 1967, the year of the Summer of Love, a group of UCSC students started an FCC-unauthorized campus radio station that broadcast from a clammy basement and tried to use an upside-down garbage can as an antenna. The broadcasters initially put egg cartons instead of acoustic tiles on the walls, and the disc jockeys played the…
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Oakes College founding faculty trace UCSC’s roots in upcoming forum
Herman Blake,founding provost of Oakes College, and his old friend and UCSC senior lecturer emeritus in writing Don Rothman, will discuss the enduring values of UCSC and the history of Oakes during Alumni Reunion Week.
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Anne Callahan wins 2012 Alumni Association Outstanding Staff Award
Anne Callahan, academic human resources manager for the Humanities Division, is this year’s recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association Outstanding Staff Award, honoring employees who go above and beyond.
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Alumni Reunion weekend: embracing tradition, celebrating innovation
UCSC grads will have many opportunities to reminisce at the Natural History Field Quarter 40th Reunion, a Black Alumni Alumni Reunion, an Oakes College’s 40th Anniversary brunch, a Cowell College reunion and the UCSC Class of 2002’s 10-year Reunion.
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The Art of Teaching: UCSC professors share their secrets
A panel of highly regarded UCSC professors will share their classroom secrets at a special panel focusing on the Art of Teaching. Those attending the forum in April will hear a spirited discussion about how talented professors help students develop critical thinking, make informed choices and engage more with the world.
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Scholarships support student veterans at UCSC
Student veterans were in the spotlight during the UCSC Retirees Association Soup Social, held March 6 at the Arboretum. Twelve scholarships of $500 each were awarded to current UCSC students who have served in the US military. About four years ago the Retirees Association renewed their fundraising efforts for a scholarship fund and selected student veterans…