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UCSC graduate student Kimberly Bautista has been awarded a 2008 Princess Grace Honorarium. She is one of 44 recipients across the country who were recognized for distinction in the fields of theater, dance and film. Bautista received her award for graduate studies at UCSC in the area of documentary film. The Princess Grace Foundation-USA is a public charity that was formed after the death of Princess Grace in 1982. It awards scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships to assist artists with career development. The organization was created to continue the legacy of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, who anonymously helped emerging artists pursue their goals throughout her lifetime.
"Kimberly Bautista impressed us with her commitment to her chosen subjects--not just in content, but also in the care she showed with the individuals she encountered and interviewed," noted Linda Blackaby, the film panel chair of the Princess Grace Awards.
"Her ability to present a story to an audience really captured the panel's attention, and we are so pleased to welcome Kimberly and the UC Santa Cruz Social Documentation Program to the Princess Grace Awards community," she added. |
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Of nearly 2 million employed computer and information scientists in the U.S. in 2003, Hispanic women represented just 18,000, or less than 1%, and Hispanic men outnumber Hispanic women in this field by more than three to one. Since mentoring has been identified as a critical strategy in the retention of students, particularly those underrepresented in these fields, a grass-roots group, Latinas in Computing, is working with MentorNet, The E-Mentoring Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science, to build more mentoring relationships between students and professionals in the fields of computing.
"As Hispanic populations grow in the U.S., the Latinas in Computing web portal is one more way we can ensure we have the talent for tomorrow," says Carol B. Muller, Founder and CEO of MentorNet. The portal is available on the web at: www.MentorNet.net/LiC/ |
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Three graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been selected to receive training grants intended to hasten innovations in a variety of biotechnology-related fields. The two-year grants provide $50,000 per year for each student.
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Computer Science Ph.D. student Sarah K. Tyler was recently awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She participated in the National Science Foundation Grant Writing Workshop held last fall, and found it to be a very valuble experience. Her primary research focus is on Personalized Search, particularly as it relates to Social Networks. Sarah is also a member of the Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (IRKM) Lab and the Proactive Personalized Information Integration and Retrieval (PIIR) Group. She is pursuing her doctorate under Professor Yi Zhang. For more information on the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, visit their website at http://www.nsf.gov/grfp |
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Graduate students Timothy Krupnik, Michelle Olsgard, and Anna Zivian have received 2008-2009 Fulbright Awards to aid their research work in environmental studies. Tim Krupnik will use his award to aid his research on rice farming in Northern Senegal. Tim will use agroecological and socioeconomic analysis to examine the potential of low-external input (LEI) farming systems to improve rice production and natural resource conservation in the Senegal River Valley. Michelle Olsgard will continue her research in Tibet, on Cordyceps sinensis, a rare fungus endemic to the region at altitudes of 3500-5000m. Michelle will employ ethnographic and ecological research methods to examine how harvesting practices in NW Yunnan interact with resource viability, and how its economic integration both influences, and is influenced by, local socio-environmental processes. Anna Zivian is working in Europe, exploring the environmental politics in various European Union countries. Her award will facilitate further research in Austria. |
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The Alumni Association has chosen Stephen Gliessman, professor of agroecology, and Bob Hastings, director of Current Student Services in the Division of Graduate Studies, to receive its Distinguished Teaching Award and Outstanding Staff Award. |
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It is my pleasure to announce that Professor Tyrus Miller has accepted the position of Associate Dean in the Graduate Studies Division.
Tyrus arrived in 1999 as a scholar of European modernisms and avant-garde movements. He earned his Ph.D at Stanford and taught for four years at Yale University in the departments of English, Comparative Literature, and Film before accepting a position at UCSC, where he teaches modern and contemporary literature. From 2001 to 2004, Tyrus served as Director of the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP) in Budapest. Prior to his arrival as Cowell Provost, he was in Vienna and Budapest as a Fulbright research scholar.
Tyrus also served as Chair of the Graduate Council and plans to teach in Spring 2008, LTMO-221 – Women Modernists: Gertrude Stein and Marianne Moore, as well as serving as co-provost of Cowell College.
I am confident that Professor Miller will provide outstanding leadership for the division. Please help me welcome Tyrus as Associate Dean of the Graduate Studies Division.
Sincerely,
Lisa C. Sloan
Vice Provost and Dean Graduate Studies |
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UCSC grad student receives Princess Grace award