Academics & Research
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Grotesque advertising stimulates creativity and pocketbooks
Grotesque advertising is seductive because it allows viewers to think more, says researcher Ed McQuarrie.
Fall 2011
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Stress and the butterfly effect
Beetles, proteins, and a Fulbright take biologist Elizabeth Dahlhoff to Finland.
Summer 2011
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Water, water everywhere
Ed Maurer has a well-earned reputation as an expert on sustainable water resources development. This year, add to that honors as a Google Fellow and Fulbright Fellow.
Summer 2011
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Make it real
A new class in "Law and Social Justice" brings the stuff of legal seminars into the undergrad classroom—and sends students out into the community to understand where theory meets the street.
Summer 2011
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Top teaching scholars
Honoring teaching, research, and service to the University in 2010
Spring 2011
Winter 2013
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Features
To catch a thief
A young mathematician at SCU has helped equip police in Santa Cruz and L.A. with an algorithm that predicts where crimes might happen next. Is this the future of policing?
How to avoid a bonfire of the humanities
A veteran chronicler of Silicon Valley looks at why the high-tech industry needs—and wants—folks who know how to tell a story.
The play’s the thing
Kurds, Arabs, countrymen: Shakespeare Iraq brings the Bard to Ashland like you’ve never heard him.
Mission Matters
Heart of the matter
A statue that’s gazed on the Mission Gardens for 130 years gets a much-needed restoration. As layers of paint are peeled away, stories of the past emerge.
All work and all play
They make Erik Hurtado ’13 WCC player of the year and the No. 5 pick in pro soccer’s draft.
Got MOOC?
There’s global interest in a Massive Open Online Course in business ethics.
