Student Achievement Week
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS BY DIVISION
June 2 – June 6, 2014
Students are recognized for their achievements in research and other scholarly activities during Student Achievement Week, June 2 – 6, 2014. Many presented their work publicly through a myriad of events -- everything from the Annual Print Sale, art exhibitions, and theater productions to a sciences and engineering poster symposium..
CAMPUS CALENDAR
ARTS DIVISION
ART DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Irwin Scholars Exhibition 2014
May 22 - June 14
Sesnon Gallery, Porter College
The Sesnon Gallery’s annual Irwin Scholarship Award exhibition showcases some of UCSC’s most promising young artists working in painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video, digital media and social practice. The William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship Fund was established in 1986, generating annual merit scholarships to further the education of selected UC Santa Cruz arts students.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/irwin-scholars-2014
Celebration of the Arts: 1st Annual Arts Division Spring Exhibition
Friday, June 6 11:00am - 4:00 p.m.
Theater Arts, Baskin Visual Arts, and Digital Arts Research Center
Celebration of the Arts showcases the talents and achievements of our students and features student work from all six departments/programs within the Arts Division: Art, Film and Digital Media, Digital Art and New Media, History of Art and Visual Culture, Music, and Theater Arts. Free and open to the public. We invite and encourage all University and town community members to join us in this celebration!
http://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/celebration-arts
Open Studios
Friday, June 6
12:00-4:00 p.m.
Baskin Visual Arts Center and
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)
Featuring student artwork in a variety of media including drawing, painting, print media, sculpture, photography, intermedia and electronic art. Open Studios runs in conjunction with the Digital Arts & New Media (DANM) Open Studios.
http://artsite.ucsc.edu/printsale/openstudios.html
UCSC 40th Annual Print Sale
Friday, June 6 & Satruday, June 7
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Printmaking Studio, Room G-101, Baskin Visual Arts Center
Hundreds of original etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, digital prints, handmade books, and more! A unique opportunity to see and purchase high quality hand made artwork, meet the artists and tour the exceptional art facilities at UCSC. Profits benefit the student artists and the UCSC Printmaking Program.
Coinciding with the Print Sale on Friday is the Student Photo Sale and the UCSC Art Department's Open Studios (12-4 pm on Friday only).
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/printsale
FILM AND DIGITAL MEDIA EVENTS
8th Annual Social Documentation Graduate Exhibition
Wednesday, June 11 - 6:00 p.m.
Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
An evening of documentary films from student of the Film and Digital Media's Social Documentation program. UCSC's SocDoc program is a one-of-a-kind program designed for future documentarians committed to social change and to documenting communities, cultures, issues, and individuals. With training from professionals outstanding in their fields, students gain the skills and confidence to enter the increasingly sophisticated world of documentary production. Free, open to the public.
Contact socdoc@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-3445 for more information
http://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/8th-annual-social-documentation-graduate-exhibition
MUSIC DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Eurasian Ensemble Concert: Central Asian traditional music and dance
Saturday, June 7 - 3:00 p.m.
Music Center Recital Hall (UCSC)
Master dutarist and Honored Artist of Uzbekistan, Malika Ziyaeva, travels from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to join master frame drummer and Honored Artist of Uzbekistan, Abbos Kosimov, and the 12 members of UCSC's Eurasian Ensemble for an afternoon of Central Asian traditional music and dance. Students will perform Uzbek folk songs and dances, as well as classical maqom on dutar (two-stringed lute), doyra (frame drum), and voice. Tanya Merchant, director. Admission is free. Parking $4.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/eurasian-ensemble-concert
THEATER DEPARTMENT EVENTS
Shakespeare To Go: "Hamlet"
Friday, June 6 - 11:00 a.m.
Second Stage, Theater Arts Center
This year, a company of UCSC students perform a 1-hour version of "Hamlet" in what will be an energetic and inventive presentation. After performing all spring in area schools, this is the group's final performance of the season! Free and open to the public. Parking $4.
http://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/shakespeare-go
HUMANITIES DIVISION
Spring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
Thursday, May 29 from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Second Stage, Theater Arts Center
You are cordially invited to Spring Awards 2014 on Thursday, May 29, 2014. This annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year.
The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding students undertaking truly innovating research projects. The projects must involve research within or including any of the humanities disciplines, and the research must be performed during the current academic year.
Highlights include:
Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award in Humanities
Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards
Schedule:
4:00-5:00PM “Celebrating Humanities” Spring Awards (Humanities 1, Room 210)
5:00-6:00PM HUGRA Poster Presentations and Reception (Humanities Courtyard)
Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Wednesday, June 4
12:45 p.m.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Towards the end of the Spring Quarter each year, the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference showcases the research of undergraduate students in its programs.
First Annual Philosphy Undergraduate Colloquium
June 5 from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
259 Humanities 2
The Philosophy Department will be holding a colloquium on Thursday, June 5 featuring presentations by four outstanding undergraduate students - as nominated by faculty.
DIVISION OF PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND JACK BASKIN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
17th Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium
Thursday, June 5
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Jack Baskin Engineering Courtyard
The event recognizes and promotes the outstanding undergraduate research that is being carried out at UCSC while providing students with the experience of presenting their research results in a professional setting. This free event is sponsored by the Division of Physical & Biological Sciences, and the Jack Baskin School of Engineering.
SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION
Environmental Studies Senior Poster Symposium
Monday, June 2, 2014
3:00-4:30, ISB Rm 221
Come to the annual Environmental Studies Undergraduate Senior Symposium and find out what students have been doing for their senior research and senior projects. Students will display posters summarizing their research/projects and will be available for questions.
