Expert to discuss globalism, terrorism, and imagination

UC Santa Cruz and Montalvo Arts Center on Friday will present the seventh annual Sidhartha Maitra Endowed Lecture, featuring global affairs expert and award-winning author Shashi Tharoor. The chairman of Afras Ventures in Dubai and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Tharoor will present an insider's look at the topic of "Globalism, Terrorism, and the Human Imagination." [More]

Botanist's gift establishes endowed chair

Jean Langenheim, professor emerita of ecology and evolutionary biology, has established the Jean H. Langenheim Endowed Chair in Plant Ecology and Evolution with a gift of $350,000. Ingrid Parker, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been appointed as the first faculty member to hold the endowed chair. [More]