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Smile Train partners with UC Santa Cruz researchers on speech therapy game
Designed to support speech therapy for children after reconstructive surgery for cleft lip and cleft palate, SpokeIt uses game play to make speech therapy fun.
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UC Santa Cruz launches online ‘Feminism and Social Justice’ course with Bettina Aptheker
UC Santa Cruz has launched a new online course open to the public through the Coursera platform. Titled ‘Feminism and Social Justice,’ it is an adaptation of a popular course taught on campus for nearly a decade by feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker.
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña returns to UCSC to perform his latest solo work: “The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist”
Internationally renowned artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña returns to UC Santa Cruz on March 5 to perform his latest solo work, “The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist,” at the Theater Arts Second Stage, beginning at 7 p.m.
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UCSC to bring art/science LASER series downtown for special evening at Rio Theater
On Tuesday, March 12, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz will bring its local LASER—now in its sixth year of quarterly talks on campus—downtown for a special evening at the Rio Theater.
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‘Fusion’ exhibit a collision of art, physics
Conceived by UC Santa Cruz physics lecturer Stephanie Bailey, the show features work created by 17 pairs of artists and physics graduate students.
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute launches brain research project
UCSC engineers and genomics experts are partnering with UCSF neuroscientists to develop new technology for studying human brain evolution and development.
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Borderbus: A community conversation about migration, art, and social justice
Former U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will appear in conversation with book artist and UCSC alumna Felicia Rice on March 6, at the Museum of Art and History in downtown Santa Cruz.
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Living Writers Series event dedicated to celebration of literature professor Karen Yamashita
On February 28, the Living Writers Series will dedicate a special reading to a celebration of literature professor Karen Yamashita on the occasion of her retirement, beginning at 5 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall.
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Pipe dreams
Three huge clay sewer pipes carved by alumnus Tom Franco and a team of artists are now gracing Danville’s art gallery in an exhibit curated by a fellow Slug.
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Seymour Center honors alumnus John Laird with Global Oceans Award
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center will honor Laird at the Global Oceans Gala on Saturday, March 23.
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Biologist Olena Morozova Vaske appointed to endowed chair in pediatric genomics
At an investiture ceremony, Vaske was honored as the inaugural holder of the Colligan Presidential Chair in Pediatric Genomics.