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| Accountability measures and pressure to conform undermine professionalism of new teachers, experts say |
As if lesson planning and classroom management weren't challenging enough, new teachers today are experiencing a growing disconnect between their professional training and the increasingly prescribed...[More] |
| UCSC alumna Dana Priest receives Pulitzer Prize |
Dana Priest, who visited UC Santa Cruz in March to receive the Division of Social Sciences's first Distinguished Alumni Award, has received a Pulitzer Prize. The annual awards were announced on...[More] |
| UCSC undergrads win award for documentary on war veterans |
A video by two UCSC undergraduates won the Jim Demulling Speak Out Award for Best Social Awareness Commentary in a Documentary at the Humboldt International Sho...[More] |
| UCSC filmmaker's documentary screens during Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival |
By Jennifer McNulty Award-winning documentary filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña's film Labor Women will be screened during the fifth annual Reel Work May Day Labor Film Festival,...[More] |
| Tajima-Peña film chosen for New York film festival screening |
April 3, 2006 Renee Tajima-Peña's film Who Killed Vincent Chin? was selected for screening as part of a special retrospective during the...[More] |
| Education forum will explore links between schools, community |
By Jennifer McNulty Educators and parents seeking a model for education that's rooted in community and civic engagement will want to attend a free public forum on Wednesday, April...[More] |
| UCSC, San Jose State team up on $1.4 million effort to boost reading and writing among fourth graders |
By Jennifer McNulty Nearly 1,000 fourth graders in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties will participate in a three-year, federally funded educational research project that aims to...[More] |
| California prison shakeup reveals urgent need for reform, expert says |
March 20, 2006 By Jennifer McNulty The recent shakeup in the troubled California Department of Corrections reveals the resistance to a badly needed overhaul of the...[More] |
| Fred Keeley bequest will support UC Santa Cruz environmental policy institute |
March 20, 2006By Jennifer McNulty Santa Cruz County Treasurer Fred Keeley has made a planned gift of $250,000 to UC Santa Cruz to support the campus's STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental R...[More] |
| Society for Cinema and Media Studies honors B. Ruby Rich |
Film scholar B. Ruby Rich, assistant professor of community studies, has received the 2006 Honorary Life Member Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the professional organization for a...[More] |
| Washington Post's Dana Priest receives first social sciences alumni award |
By Jennifer McNulty Called a traitor by the right and a lapdog for the administration by the left, Washington Post reporter Dana Priest has tirelessly pursued the inner workings of...[More] |
| CLRC names scholars of the year |
Two professors of Latin American and Latino studies at UC Santa Cruz have been named Scholars of the Year by the campus's Chicano/Latino Research Center (CLRC)....[More] |
| Psychology professor heeds parents' pleas for help |
February 13, 2006 By Jennifer McNulty Twenty years ago, psychology professor Dominic Massaro never dreamed his investigation of how humans comprehend language and speech would b...[More] |
| Professor helps assess health of teacher workforce |
February 20, 2006 By Jennifer McNulty School districts in Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties are lucky to have assistant professor of education Lora Bartlett on their...[More] |
| Eileen Brooks, assistant professor of economics, dies at 33 |
Eileen L. Brooks, assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, died Wednesday, February 1, at Dominican Hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 33 years o...[More] |
| Book by Alan Richards makes 'best books in Middle Eastern studies' list |
January 2, 2006 Book by Alan Richards makes 'best books in Middle Eastern studies' list As environmental studies professor Alan Richards begins a two-quarter...[More] |
| Sociologist John Brown Childs edits new book about Hurricane Katrina |
January 2, 2006 By Jennifer McNulty The weak federal emergency response to Hurricane Katrina fits a pattern of reduced federal government responsibility for public well-...[More] |
| Anna Tsing awarded book prize from the American Ethnological Association |
Anna Tsing, professor of anthropology, has received the 2005 Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Association (AEA) for her book, Friction: An Ethnography of Global...[More] |
| Soil ecologist investigates role of plant roots in regulating carbon cycling, reducing global warming |
December 5, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty Soil ecologist Weixin Cheng is at the leading edge of scientific efforts to quantify the impacts of plant roots on the cycling of carbon betwee...[More] |
| United Way names Catherine Cooper a Community Hero |
November 28, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty Catherine Cooper, professor of psychology and education, received a Community Hero award from the United Way of Santa Cruz County for her work...[More] |
| Secretary of State McPherson urges young people to vote |
November 28, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty Displaying characteristic good humor, Secretary of State Bruce McPherson laid it on the line for a student-dominated crowd that attended his ta...[More] |
| Sociologist says class-based childrearing patterns perpetuate social inequality |
November 28, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty As a sociologist, Annette Lareau wanted to know more about how social inequality gets perpetuated from generation to generation....[More] |
| Corporate self-regulation falls short, says author |
November 7, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty When global justice activists took to the streets in the late 1990s to demand reforms such as higher wages and better working conditions for lab...[More] |
| Ball and awards ceremony to raise funds for undergraduate research apprenticeships |
November 7, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty Each fall, faculty affiliated with the Chicano/Latino Research Center invite a small number of undergraduates interested in...[More] |
| Alumnus makes movie magic at PDI/Dreamworks |
October 24, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty As a child, Dug Stanat didn't watch much television, and his parents frowned on cartoons. So it's a little ironic that Stanat now makes his livi...[More] |
| Public forum Oct. 25 to look at education and state funding |
October 17, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty The community is invited to attend a free public forum about the state budget crisis and its long-term impact on funding for education on Tuesda...[More] |
| Mystery Spot demonstrates power of perception, UCSC psychologist explains |
October 3, 2005 Popular Santa Cruz tourist attraction isn't so mysterious, after all By Jennifer McNulty For years, UCSC psychology professor Bruce Bridgem...[More] |
| Faye Crosby receives top honor in social psychology, becoming third UCSC professor to win prestigious Lewin Award |
October 3, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty Faye J. Crosby, professor of psychology and an expert on affirmative action, has received the Kurt Lewin Award, one of the most pres...[More] |
| Economics Department at UC Santa Cruz ranked ninth in world in international finance |
The Economics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was ranked ninth in the world in the field of international finance in a survey of more than 300 public and private research unive...[More] |
| UCSC New Teacher Center director receives national education award |
September 26, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty Ellen Moir, executive director of the UCSC New Teacher Center, received the 2005 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Educa...[More] |
| Budget Related Service Impacts |
The Division of Social Sciences Dean's Office is open Monday through Friday, 8 am-12 noon and 1-5pm. If you need to meet with a specific person, please call or email them in advance to check on their...[More] |
| Lessons of Japan's economic downturn offered in new book coedited by Michael Hutchison |
The stagnation that plagued the Japanese economy throughout the 1990s lasted twice as long as it should have, according to the coeditor of a new book that says Japan was hobbled by weak monetary polic...[More] |
| Researcher tracks orangutans for clues to feeding behavior |
By Jennifer McNulty Not many researchers can say they've had the privilege of dodging orangutan spit deep in the tropical rain forest of Indonesia....[More] |
| Farm's market cart offers organic produce and flowers |
Fresh organic produce and flowers will be available at the base of campus twice a week beginning Tuesday, June 20. The Farm & Garden's Market Cart will be open Tuesdays and...[More] |
| Economist deciphers racial disparities in business ownership |
Economist Robert Fairlie knows that business ownership can be an escape route out of poverty, so he is bothered by an African American self-employment rate that's less than half the national average....[More] |
| Society for Cinema and Media Studies honors B. Ruby Rich |
By Jennifer McNulty Film scholar B. Ruby Rich, assistant professor of community studies, has received the 2006 Honorary Life Member Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Stud...[More] |
| Corporate self-regulation falls short, says author |
November 7, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty When global justice activists took to the streets in the late 1990s to demand reforms such as higher wages and better working conditions for lab...[More] |
| Three UCSC professors and two graduate students honored for teaching |
September 29, 2005Three professors and two graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were honored for their teaching today (Thursday, September 29). The Division of Social Scienc...[More] |
| Skewed system facilitates death sentences and undermines fairness of capital punishment, says author of new book |
September 26, 2005 By Jennifer McNulty In a harsh critique of the death penalty before a gathering of the nation's lawyers last month, U.S. Supreme Court Jus...[More] |
| Three universities collaborate to offer new doctorate for professional educators |
September 8, 2005Ten students have begun a new doctoral program in educational leadership offered jointly by the University of California, Santa Cruz; San Jose State University; and California State U...[More] |
| The Business Plan for the South Asian Studies 2020 Initiative |
June 16, 2009 Dear Colleagues: The academic deans at UC Santa Cruz are pleased to share with you the final copy of the Business Plan for the South Asian Studies 2020 Initiative. The docume...[More] |
| Doctoral candidate Kea Gorden receives Fulbright |
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| UCSC team to share environmental justice expertise with state air board |
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| National Science Foundation (NSF) comes to UCSC, Friday, November 20, 2009, for a One Day Workshop |
This workshop will benefit all-campus faculty and graduate students who are interested in applying to the NSF. The workshop, sponsored by Vice Chancellor for Research Bruce Margon and the Dean's Offic...[More] |
| UC Santa Cruz dream expert featured on Discovery Channel series |
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| Enhanced Emeriti Program in the Division of Social Sciences |
In May, Dean Sheldon Kamieniecki announced the implementation of a new Enhanced Emeriti Program in the Division of Social Sciences. Please contact Assistant Dean for Academic Planning and Res...[More] |
| UCSC Professor Emeritus William Friedland honored for lifetime achievement |
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| Paul Ortiz awarded prize for book on black organizing in Florida |
Paul Ortiz, associate professor of community studies, has received the 2006 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Book Prize from the Florida Historical Society for his book Emanci...[More] |
| $1.8 million NSF grant funds UCSC prof's research on science learning in museums |
For many parents, taking the kids to the aquarium or a hands-on science museum combines fun and learning. Youngsters at the Seymour Ma...[More] |
| Education prof Judith Scott recognized for service to public schools |
Judith A. Scott, associate professor of education, will receive the 2006 John Chorlton Manning Public School Service Award from the International Reading Associ...[More] |
| LALS lecturer produces album for Latin Grammy-nominated artist |
When he’s not teaching in the Latin American and Latino studies program, Greg Landau is producing music. Most recently, he produced the debut album for Peruvian artist Pamela, who has been nomin...[More] |
