Merrill College Family Day

Saturday, February 4th, 2012

    Schedule

  • 11:30am Registration Opens  ( Merrill Circle)

    Check in, get your name tag, and meet some of the Merrill Staff

    • 1:00pm - 2:00pm Welcome and Cultural Demonstration (Cultural Center at Merrill)

  • The Dancer-Puppet connections in Performing Arts of West Java

    UCSC has one of the largest gamelan programs outside of Indonesia due to the teaching of Music Lecturer Undang Sumarna who comes from a family of great drummers and has been teaching at UCSC since l975.  Undang and Kathy Foley (Merrill Interim Provost) will demonstrate how dance drama emulates the rod puppet (wayang golek) and Islamic performers tell Indian epics to celebrate circumcisions, weddings and other important events. Teaching these arts at UCSC has launched a generation of ethnomusicologists, linguists, diplomats, political scientists and theatre artists who use ideas from Sundanese arts of West Java in diverse ways. (with gamelan musicians from the Advanced Gamelan Class and puppet and dance demonstration).

    • 2:10pm - 3:10pm Faculty Lecture (Cultural Center at Merrill)

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    Fate of Fossil Fuel Carbon: Challenges and Opportunities

    James Zachos, Ph.D., is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). Dr. Zachos’ research interests include ocean acidification, the biological and chemical evolution of the oceans, and past climate change.  He received his Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island in 1988, was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, and a fellow at University of Cambridge.  He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications on Earth’s past climate, particularly the periods of extreme greenhouse warmth, as well as on the initiation of ice ages.  He is also a major contributor to resolving the short- and long-term impacts of rapid releases of carbon on climate and ocean pH.  He has served on the NAS/National Research Council’s Committee on Climate Change, and is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.  He has received a Humboldt Award for his research on past climates.  Dr. Zachos also contributed to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report.

    • 3:15pm - 4:00pm College Resource Fair and Apartment Tours (Start at the Cultural Center)

  • Learn about all the different college offices, meet the staff or take a tour of the upperclassmen apartment complexes

    • 3:30pm - 4:30pm Open House (Merrill Provost House)

  • Join us for a reception, take an opportunity to meet the Merrill Proffesional Staff.

  • Click HERE to RSVP

Dining Options


Families are invited to sample on-campus dining at the Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall (Dining hall opens at 10am on Saturday).

Discounted rates are available if you mention Merrill Family Day
Or Tacos Moreno at Merrill is open at 11am.

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