Alumni
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UCSC taps Tang Museum director to lead innovative museum project
The UC Santa Cruz Arts Division announced today that John Weber—currently Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York—has been hired to guide the development of a new institute of the arts and sciences.
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Biologist Harry Noller to receive honorary degree
The University of Geneva will award an honorary doctorate degree to UCSC biologist Harry Noller.
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History Dept. to host international conference on Chinese culture
A group of internationally renowned scholars will convene to explore and rethink aspects of modern Chinese culture, religion, and society from various Eurasian and global perspectives on September 7-8 at UC Santa Cruz.
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Study suggests large methane reservoirs beneath Antarctic ice sheet
The Antarctic Ice Sheet could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
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Humanities professors awarded UC Presidential Chair
Feminist Studies professor Bettina Aptheker and Literature professor Karen Yamashita have been appointed to a UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies on the UCSC campus.
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Peabody Award recognizes video work of SciCom alumna Solana Pyne
A video series by GlobalPost featuring productions by Science Communication Program graduate Solana Pyne received a Peabody Award for distinguished achievement in electronic media.
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Schlanger Fellowship supports research on Arctic climate change
Ocean sciences graduate student Karla Knudson has been awarded a 2012-2013 Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship.
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USDA grant aids organic farming training program at UC Santa Cruz
Training for beginning organic farmers on the Central Coast will get a significant boost from a three-year U.S. Department of Agriculture grant to the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) at UC Santa Cruz.
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UCSC receives $1 million gift to support Center for Ocean Health expansion
A major gift from alumni Christine and Robert Holo will help fund the Center for Ocean Health’s new education wing.
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In Memoriam – Aaronette M. White
Professor Aaronette M. White, a gifted professor of social psychology who loved teaching and was beloved by her students, has died unexpectedly at age 51.
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UCSC alum’s third CD offers haunting ‘optimistic melancholy’
Rolling Stone magazine has described Emily Jane White’s songs as “melancholy as a rainbow glimpsed through the bars of a prison window.”
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Paul Koch named dean of physical and biological sciences
UCSC has appointed Paul Koch to serve as dean of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences.