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Earth scientist Casey Moore elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union
AGU fellows are a select group of distinguished scientists who have made exceptional scientific contributions in the field of Earth science.
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In Memoriam: Doug Weismann
Doug Weismann, an Information Technology Services staff member, passed away over the weekend. He joined ITS in March of this year after many years as an employee of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and at Cisco Systems.
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Descendants of Charles Dickens to appear at UCSC’s annual celebration
Gerald Dickens, the great-great-grandson, and Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, will speak and perform as part of the annual Dickens Universe program, running August 4-10 on the UC Santa Cruz campus.
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Scientific authorities sign TMT master agreement
The scientific authorities of the Thiry Meter Telescope partners have signed a master agreement defining the project goals and establishing a governance structure.
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Colleges Nine and Ten Provost Helen Shapiro to head UC Washington Center
Helen Shapiro, provost of Colleges Nine and Ten at UC Santa Cruz, has been named executive director of the University of California’s Washington Center known as UCDC.
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UCSC dance research published in prestigious Psychology Science journal
A new study by a research group from UC Santa Cruz in dance has been published in Psychological Science, the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology.
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UCSC politics professor pioneers research on law in fragile states
Mark Fathi Massoud’s family fled Sudan in 1983 when he was a boy. Now a lawyer and assistant professor of politics and legal studies at UC Santa Cruz, Massoud has published his first book, ‘Law’s Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan’
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Bees ‘betray’ their flowers when pollinator species decline, study shows
Remove even one bumblebee species from an ecosystem and the impact is swift and clear: Their floral “sweethearts” produce significantly fewer seeds, a new study finds.
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Soc Doc alumna’s work with Syrian refugees featured on CBS News
UCSC alumna Bridgette Auger’s ongoing work with Syrian refugees is featured as “The Toll of Syria’s War” on the CBS News web site.
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Regents appoint Janet Napolitano as UC’s first woman president
The University of California Board of Regents July 18 appointed Janet Napolitano, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a two-term governor of Arizona, as the 20th president of the University of California.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz kicks off 2013 summer festival July 23
The 32nd season of Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC) opens July 23 with Shakespeare’s popular and thought-provoking comedy, The Taming of the Shrew.
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UC Santa Cruz launches first online course with Coursera
UC Santa Cruz announced today the launch of its first free online course open to the public through the Coursera platform. Titled The Holocaust, the course traces the destruction of the Jews and Jewish life in Europe by Nazi Germany, drawing on major works of history, literature, and film.