UC Santa Cruz alumnus Steve Mirrione also receives Oscar nomination in film editing.
Film by UC Santa Cruz art professor nominated for Academy Award
Goodbye jobs, hello ‘gigs’: Nunberg’s Word of the Year
The word that's re-emerged with the decline of the traditional American job.
Music professor tapped for National Council on the Humanities
President Obama will nominate UC Riverside's Deborah Wong for the National Council on the Humanities.
By day, he taught high school. Now he writes for Superman and the first Asian American superhero.
UC Berkeley alum Gene Luen Yang named new national ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress.
UCLA prof helps capture immigrants' accounts of their first days in America
First Days Project website enables newcomers to share heartfelt recollections of arriving in the United States.
One professor’s top holiday movies
UC Riverside media and cultural studies professor Derek Burrill offers his favorites. Warning: Not all these films are reindeer approved.
UC Irvine professor explains the science of 'Star Wars'
The Force, taken literally, would crush you, and light sabers wouldn't work.
Santa vs. superheroes
UC Irvine physics professor compares St. Nick’s powers to those of traditional caped crusaders.
Architectural students reinvent the community center
Imagine a community center that’s not your typical chunk of cinderblock — instead it’s an architecturally avant garde space where neighbors gather to grow, cook and eat food.
Whiskers and locks: reading U.S. history through hair
From bearded lady acts to the Victorian practice of hair collecting, grad student Sarah Gold McBride is teasing out the meaning of hair in 19th-century America, and how it reveals evolving ideas about race and gender.
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 comes alive on computer screens
Modeling expert lets viewers marvel at Chicago World’s Fair that drew 27 million people from around the world.
Irish president presses his case for ending world hunger
Helps launch Irish studies program at UC Berkeley.