Campus News
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Teaching luminaries share classroom secrets at Academic Forum
The large crowd that attended the Academic Forum at the Humanities Lecture Hall —one of the cornerstones of the UCSC Alumni Reunion Weekend—had a rare opportunity to hear these and other teaching secrets of renowned educators, ranging from social psychologist Elliot Aronson to noted feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker.
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Registration open for spring and summer 3-day ‘Garden Cruz’ classes
Intensive class will provide a solid foundation to further the lifelong study, enjoyment, and practice of organic gardening. Class instructors include Orin Martin, manager of UCSC’s Alan Chadwick Garden, and local organic farmers Zoe Hitchner and Sky DeMuro of Everett Family Farm.
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Walking and talking: Learning outside the classroom door
In her essay, UCSC lecturer Candace Calsoyas discusses the Aristotelian method of conversation and learning while on foot, a practice she introduced in Albania and brings to the College Eight core course.
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Family Member Verification Project Reminder
If you do not respond by May 17th, you may risk your own de-enrollment from UC insurance as well as de-enrollment of your family members.
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Women of Influence awards recognize six with UCSC connections
Faculty, staff, and alumni of UCSC accounted for six of the 100 women recognized by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as 2012 Women of Influence.
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UCSC in the News
The Scientific American “Incubator” blog ran a Q&A with Nadia Drake, a recent graduate of the Science Communication Program and astronomy reporter for Science News.
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Organic farming research to expand with $2.6 million grant
UC Santa Cruz will continue and expand its leading role in sustainable agriculture research with a $2.6 million federal grant to strengthen collaboration with Central Coast farmers to promote organic production in the region. Researchers at UCSC’s Environmental Studies Department and Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) will use the four-year grant from…
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Practically green
The UC Santa Cruz campus is ethereal, otherworldly, a school plucked out of a storybook and nestled in the midst of a redwood forest. Where else can one see a coyote from a classroom window and stroll past deer between lunch and lab? Mountain lions have been spotted and, of course, plenty of banana slugs. The…
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Hot dates
Commencement exercises events.ucsc.edu/commencement June 15–17, 2012 Whale of an Auction, Friends of Long Marine Lab seymourcenter.ucsc.edu June 23, 2012 Cowell College Founders Celebration 2012 ucsc.edu/founders October 12, 2012 Founders Day Gala Dinner Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz Alumni Reunion Weekend 2013 events.ucsc.edu/reunion April 26–28, 2013 Campus For more events, visit:events.ucsc.edu
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A fusion of art and science
Last summer, visitors at the Tech Museum in San Jose had the chance to step off our planet and hurl a star into the cosmos. On a screen in front of them lay a black hole waiting to yank in an errant star that visitors attempted to throw toward it at just the right angle…
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Celebrate the Great 88
In 1967, the year of the Summer of Love, a group of UCSC students started an FCC-unauthorized campus radio station that broadcast from a clammy basement and tried to use an upside-down garbage can as an antenna. The broadcasters initially put egg cartons instead of acoustic tiles on the walls, and the disc jockeys played the…
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Jim Urban is the artist behind UCSC’s iconic barn signs
You don’t realize your eyes are fooling you until you stand close to the Barn Theater at UCSC’s main entrance. That’s when you realize what looks like a digitally rendered photographic billboard of Martin Luther King Jr.’s face, for example, is not digital, photographic, or even a billboard. Peer closely and you’ll see dry-brush strokes, a dot…