Campus News
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Acclaimed playwright and film director Luis Valdez to visit UCSC
Acclaimed playwright, director, and filmmaker Luis Valdez will join his son–UCSC theater arts lecturer Kinan Valdez–for two special audience talks after performances of Luis’s play “Mummifed Deer,” Feb. 26 and Mar. 4 at the Mainstage Theater.
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CLASS survey
The Class and Lecture Availability Student Survey (CLASS) is available online through February 20.
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Community Service Project Grants
The UCSC Student Volunteer Center (SVC) offers Community Service Project (CSP) Grants to individual UCSC students.
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Substance Abuse and Dependency
The Chancellor has recently issued the annual notice regarding the University of California’s policy on substance abuse.
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Alumna aims to chronicle every D.C. homicide victim
Laura Norton Amico (Merrill ’04, anthropology), a former police reporter, has quietly carved out a role for herself as D.C.’s most comprehensive chronicler of the unlawful taking of human life.
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Psychology professor’s book explores everyday feminism
In a new book, Aaronette M. White, an associate professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, collects the personal reflections of 18 African Americans who are practicing feminism in their everyday lives.
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In Memoriam—William Shipley
William Shipley, one of the first faculty hired at UC Santa Cruz, died January 20. He came to UCSC in 1966 to found the linguistics program, which he led as chair until 1980.
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Anthropology graduate student wins prestigious Paper Prize
Sarah Bakker, a graduate student in anthropology, is the first UC Santa Cruz student to win the prestigious Paper Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.
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Faculty, administrators and legislators discuss potential $500 million cut to UC system
State legislators, UCSC administrators and faculty members spoke of the proposed half-billion-dollar cut to the University of California budget at a spirited forum in Santa Cruz.
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UCSC’s Richard Green honored for top research paper in Science
Bioinformatics expert Richard Green has won the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for his paper on the Neanderthal genome.
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Budget challenge
As you probably know, Gov. Brown has proposed a $500 million cut to the UC system for fiscal year 2011-12. I expect that our share will be about 6 percent, or about $31 million.
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UCSC in the News
Latin American and Latino Studies professor Jonathan Fox was quoted in a widely published article about the loss of jobs in Mexico stemming from the importation of cheap corn from the U.S.