Faculty
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Jody Greene and Mary Beth Pudup named to inaugural board of UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
UC Santa Cruz professors Jody Greene and Mary Beth Pudup are among 19 leading University of California scholars who have been named to the inaugural academic advisory board of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
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An unburied dream
It took professor emeritus Paul Skenazy many years to say, “I want to be a fiction writer.” Now he’s won a prestigious literary prize for his fiction debut, Temper CA. Last month, he drew a capacity crowd to Bookshop Santa Cruz.
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Mentoring for a new millennium
Until recently, higher education faculty and staff were largely left to intuit the qualities of a good mentor or to replicate the mentoring habits–skillful or unskillful–that they themselves experienced as undergraduates, graduate students, or postdoctoral researchers.
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Madeleine Albright in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning UCSC alumna Martha Mendoza on Feb. 5
Madeleine Albright, the first United States female Secretary of State, will speak about her new book, “Fascism: A Warning”–in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UC Santa Cruz alumna Martha Mendoza–on Tuesday, February 5, at the at the Kaiser Permanente Arena in Santa Cruz.
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Family support group sessions starting Wednesday
Lactation consultant Beth Lilienthal will be leading monthly group family support sessions at Family Student Housing beginning Wednesday and going through June. The sessions will start at 10 a.m. in apartment 712 in the Family Center. Lilienthal is an expert in infant care and lactation, and will be available to provide information and guidance to…
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‘What refugees taught me about Shakespeare’
On Jan. 31, New York theater director Jessica Bauman will come to campus for a special evening at Kresge Town Hall titled ‘What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare.’ Together with UCSC professor Cat Ramirez, she will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the worldwide migration…
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Art professor receives 2019 Creative Capital Award plus SFFILM artist residency for new documentary film
UC Santa Cruz professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones has received a 2019 Creative Capital Award for “Run With It,” a feature-length animated documentary film she is currently working on in collaboration with San Francisco artist Nomi Talisman.
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Community dialogue on proposed changes to Title IX
UC Santa Cruz will host a community dialogue on the proposed changes to Title IX from 6–7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at Kresge Town Hall. The dialogue is an opportunity to learn about the proposed changes, discuss them with others, and submit individual or group comments to the U.S. Department of Education. The event…
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Bay Tree Bookstore mail kiosk to be removed
The campus vendor providing the mail kiosk is exiting the postal kiosk business and no suitable vendor has been found to replace it. The
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Questions That Matter public humanities series to spotlight ‘Data and Democracy’ at Kuumbwa Center
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz will present “Data and Democracy”—the fifth installment of its signature Questions That Matter series—on Tuesday, January 29, at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz.
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Grad student working to advance Beyond Compliance initiative
Across the world, graduate student Alison Hanson has focused on preventing and responding to sexual violence. She’s now bringing her expertise to UC Santa Cruz, where she’s part of the campus Beyond Compliance initiative.
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Seed-funding innovation
The UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board of Trustees seeks interesting new projects to fund.