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Gurdon Woods – sculptor, founding chair of the art department at UC Santa Cruz, 1966–1974 [19] [20] Stanford E. Woosley – professor of astronomy and astrophysics; noted for his work on supernova gamma ray bursts; member of the NAS (elected 2006) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001) [17]
Brown received her BA in economics and politics from UC Santa Cruz, and her M.A and Ph.D. in political philosophy from Princeton University. Before she took a position at UC Berkeley in 1999, Brown taught at Williams College and UC Santa Cruz. At Berkeley, beyond her primary teaching roles in Political Theory and Critical Theory, Brown was also ...
UC Santa Cruz was ranked 129th in the list of Best Global Universities and tied for 82nd in the list of Best National Universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report ' s 2024 rankings. [102] In 2021, UC Santa Cruz was ranked the No. 3 public university in the nation for "making an impact" and No. 4 for promoting social mobility.
Alison Galloway is a forensic anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [1] She is best known for her work in identifying the physical remains of Laci Peterson in the Scott Peterson Trial. She co-edited a book called The Evolving Female: A Life History Perspective with Mary Morbeck and Adrienne Zihlmann.
The program was started in 1965, during the first year of the Santa Cruz campus, in a rather informal manner. A small group of faculty members, including the American historian Page Smith, [2] philosopher Maurice Natanson, culture theorist Harry Berger, Jr., and psychology professor Bert Kaplan [3] approached the University of California system-wide Graduate Council with a proposal for a new ...
Constance "Connie" Mary Rockosi (born c. 1972 [1]) is a professor and former department chair in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. [2] She earned her PhD in 2001 and helped design the camera for the telescope that was used as part of the initial Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).
As the 48,000-member UC academic workers union announced a Monday strike at UC Santa Cruz over alleged free speech violations during pro-Palestinian protests, the University of California on ...
Edmund Burke III (born 1940) is Professor Emeritus of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.His research areas include Islamic history, modern Middle Eastern and North African history, Mediterranean history, French history, orientalism, European imperialism, and world history.