Faculty
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More Zipcars in the Santa Cruz Community
Based on the success of the Zipcar program both on campus and in the Santa Cruz community, I am pleased to announce that three additional Zipcars are now available in Santa Cruz for use by all UCSC students, staff and faculty.
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Carnival Cruz and Prediction Walk/Run
On Friday, May 13, UCSC Wellness brings a mini-vacation to all students, staff, and faculty via Carnival Cruz and the Prediction Walk/Run.
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Second Rethinking Capitalism conference attracts large audience
The second Rethinking Capitalism conference at UC Santa Cruz April 7-9 attracted attentive audiences – much from the Santa Cruz community – for three days of discussions on the perils facing capitalism and government efforts designed to prop it up.
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SocDoc graduate director wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Renee Tajima-Peña, graduate director of the masters Social Documentation program at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2011.
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Center for Visual and Performance Studies to host conference on Pasolini
On April 29-30, the UCSC Arts Division’s center for Visual and Performance Studies (VPS) will host an international conference titled “Pasolini’s Body: New Directions in Pasolini Scholarship” at the Cowell College Conference Room.
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Professor to create large photographic work for African embassy
The U.S. State Department has commissioned associate art professor Elliot Anderson to create a large-scale photographic work for a new embassy in Zambia, Africa.
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Cuban video project screens rural documentaries April 15 at UCSC
Short video documentaries produced by Cuban campesinos will be shown Friday, April 15 when Cuban filmmaker Carlos Rodriguez visits UC Santa Cruz as part of a tour of U.S. universities. The event is free and open to the public and runs from 12:30-2 p.m. in the Cervantes Room at the Bay Tree Book Store building.
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New atlas takes a graphic approach to global inequalities
In 2001, the UC Atlas of Global Inequality went online at UC Santa Cruz. Now, millions of hits later, the interactive research project has been turned into a book, The Atlas of Global Inequalities, by two UC Santa Cruz professors.
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Campus fun with Carnival Cruz and Prediction Walk/Run
On Friday, May 13, UCSC Wellness brings a mini-vacation to all staff, faculty, and students with the Carnival Cruz and the Prediction Walk/Run.
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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
In an ongoing effort to promote a safe, healthy campus environment, we are writing to remind you that April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
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Elliot Aronson wins UC distinguished emeriti award
Elliot Aronson, emeritus professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, has been named winner of the 2010 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award given to outstanding University of California professors in the humanities or social sciences for research and activities since retirement.
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History alum winning acclaim for second feature film
UCSC alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga has followed his award-winning debut film Sin Nombre with Jane Eyre, his own take on the classic 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte.