Alumni
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In Memoriam: George Hitchcock
George Hitchcock, poet, painter, publisher, and UCSC lecturer emeritus in Creative Writing (Literature), died on August 27 at the age of 96.
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Astronomer Sandra Faber profiled on KTEH
KTEH, the San Jose public television station, profiles astronomer Sandra Faber in a new episode of the program “This Is Us” that will air on September 8.
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UC Santa Cruz professor one of top academic experts on Honduras
In late June, UC Santa Cruz history professor Dana Frank traveled to Honduras to observe the one-year anniversary of the country’s 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya. Frank is one of the top academic experts on Honduras in the United States
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Chancellor helps fund Olive Tree Initiative
Two UCSC politics majors want to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict, but they refuse to put their blind trust in TV, blogs, and newspaper coverage.
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Professors to present New Orleans lecture on anniversary of Katrina
August 29 marks the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Crescent City.
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Campus gets high honors in Sierra Club Coolest Schools rankings
UC Santa Cruz students throw pizza crusts into compost containers, scribble notes on recycled paper, and drink mass quantities of shade-grown organic cafeteria coffee during finals week.
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A new economy for Santa Cruz?
Former Santa Cruz Sentinel editor Tom Honig writes in an op-ed for the Santa Cruz Good Times that UCSC is a driver of the local economy, and that a growing campus could result in more private sector jobs in a rapidly changing economy.
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Authors of new book about Grateful Dead’s marketing approach to donate one fourth of advance and royalties to UC Santa Cruz
Inspired by a thought-provoking feature article by Joshua Green in the March issue of Atlantic magazine titled Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead, Boston writers David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan have just published a new book rele
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Art professor’s New Orleans photo makes opening credits of new HBO series
Tune into Treme, the new HBO television series by David Simon (The Wire) about post-Katrina New Orleans, and in the opening credits you will see a photograph taken by UCSC associate professor of art Lewis Watts.
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UCSC graduate students to showcase digital art with social impact
Fourteen graduate students from UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. Program (DANM) will conclude two years of artistic study with “Things That Are Possible”–an exhibition of their work running April 30 through May 9 at the campus’s new Digital Arts
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Bratt brothers bring a little Hollywood to Santa Cruz
Alumnus and filmmaker Peter Bratt and his brother, TV and movie star Benjamin Bratt, were in town and on campus recently as part of the local premiere of La Mission.
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Alumni speakers hopeful about the future
Three prominent UCSC alumni returned to campus April 17 for a lively exchange on what the future holds for the next generation of humanity.