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Feb 24: Banff Mountain Film Festival:
Journey to exotic locations. Thru Feb. 25
Feb 25: Scholarship Benefit Dinner:
Keynote Susan Wojcicki
Feb 28: Faculty Research Lecture:
Across a Sea of Suns: Charting Distant Worlds, Other Earths

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February 21, 2012 New Theater Arts drama a ‘grand experiment’ in arts and technology
February 17, 2012 New DNA sequencer uses nanopore concepts pioneered at UCSC
February 15, 2012 UCSC professor named second Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County

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KAREN WASHINGTON

UCSC Farm Apprenticeship program grad honored in Black History month celebration for her work with urban gardens in Bronx, N.Y. Continue»

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Famed writer Raymond Carver taught at UCSC in the early 1970s.

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Open Lab: Art, Science, Technology, and Culture

Artists and scientists collaborate to create new and innovative ways to present scientific research.

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