Faculty
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Kenneth Feingold to serve as UCSC’s fourth alumni Regent
A UC Santa Cruz graduate will have a presence on the University of California Board of Regents for the first time in seven years. This week, Kenneth A. Feingold (Cowell, ’71, history) was named the fourth UCSC alumnus to represent the campus on the Board of Regents.
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Environmental Studies faculty stands up for experiential education
Faculty in UCSC’s Environmental Studies program have teamed up to launch a fundraiser to protect the future of its experiential education courses.
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Parking permit renewals
Please read this so that you can have your parking permit current for 2012.
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Education researchers win $2 million grant to prepare teachers who help English learners
Education researchers at UC Santa Cruz have received nearly $2 million over five years from the U.S. Department of Education to develop methods of training prospective elementary school teachers how to best teach English to English learners while also teaching grade-level content.
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Free computers help community college students improve skills
In the first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use, UC Santa Cruz economics professor Rob Fairlie found that when students had access to a computer at home their grades went up along with — not surprisingly — their computer skills.
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Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz named to Silicon Valley’s ’40 Under 40′
Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz is among 40 “rising stars” in Silicon Valley recognized by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
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State Assemblymember Bill Monning meets with UCSC health sciences interns
Three UCSC human biology/health sciences program interns spoke in detail about their experiences during an informal meeting with state Assemblymember Bill Monning, chair of the Assembly Health Committee.
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Soc Doc alumna reports from Egypt’s Tahrir Square
UCSC alumna Bridgette Auger was following women activists in Egypt’s Tahrir Square last week when they came under fire during a clash between protesters and police. Auger—who received her Master’s degree in Social Documentation from UCSC earlier this year—shot video footage of the incident, which can be seen on the Daily Beast web site.
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SSC and Theater Arts team up for holiday extravaganza
After a brief hiatus, the popular year-end holiday co-production by Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Theater Arts Department returns this year for “A Year with Frog and Toad”—running through December 11 at UCSC’s Mainstage Theater.
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Writing instructor’s essay included in natural history anthology
An essay by Sarah Juniper Rabkin, a lecturer and researcher in the UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies Department is included in “The Way of Natural History” (Trinity University Press, 2011), an anthology in which more than 20 writers argue that attention to nature is a key pathway to nurturing our humanity.
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UCSC grad is an editor of the ‘Occupied Wall Street Journal’
Despite the bust-up of Occupy encampments nationwide, a UC Santa Cruz graduate who helps edit the newspaper for the popular movement credits media outreach with spreading the message of economic fairness beyond the downtown parks where the movement began.
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Campus leadership supports peaceful demonstations
Chancellor George Blumenthal and CP/EVC Alison Galloway comment on police actions at UC Davis and Berkeley and express support for the right to peacefully demonstrate on UC campuses.