http://history.ucsc.edu News from Department of History at UC Santa Cruz - Headlines http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3348 History professor Charles Hedrick will use his recent UC Presidential Chair appointment to establish and develop a new program in Ancient Studies on the UCSC campus.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3090 Four research programs headquartered at UC Santa Cruz have received awards in the 2009 UC Multi-Campus Research Programs and Initiatives Competition (MRPI). ... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=3064 Professor of history Dana Frank has contributed an op-ed piece titled "Obama's Honduran Test" to today's San Francisco Chronicle about Sunday's coup in Honduras.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2924 History lecturer Gildas Hamel has been awarded one of the French government?s highest academic honors--the Palmes Académiques, for his lifelong work teaching French language and culture. ... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2905 B.A., history, with a concentration on Asia and the Islamic World... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2879 UCSC alumnus James E. Young--an award-winning author, professor, and consultant for major memorials and museums--will deliver the Helen Diller Family Foundation Distinguished Lecture on Friday, April... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2876 Ph.D., History... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2697 First-time director and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga received the award for "Best Director, U.S. Drama," at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his film Sin Nombre.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2585 UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the David B. Gold Foundation to support a new project in the campus's Jewish Studies Program. ... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2068 Two UC Santa Cruz professors have won UC President's Research Fellowships in the Humanities. Noriko Aso, assistant professor of history, and John Bowin, assistant professor of philosophy, are among...