http://psych.ucsc.edu News from Psychology at UC Santa Cruz - Headlines http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2133 Activists from within and outside the university came together April 19 to discuss relations among African Americans and Latinos.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2094 Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew's pathbreaking research on racism has earned him international honors as well as the admiration of his peers at UC Santa Cruz, who have named him the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty Award. ... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1966 Max M. Levin, a lecturer emeritus of psychology whose ties to the campus go back to 1967, died on Saturday, February 16, in Portland, Oregon. He was 91.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1967 A new study has produced an unusually intimate portrait of the college experience for UCSC students from underrepresented groups, including those who are among the first in their family to attend college.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1950 Tools developed by researchers exploring language and speech comprehension can become powerful aids for remedial readers, children with language challenges, and anyone learning a second language, according to psychology professor Dominic Massaro of the University of California, Santa Cruz.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1944 UCSC researchers have received funding from Microsoft Research to develop a virtual speech therapist, accessible on a cell phone, to aid stroke survivors in Malaysia.... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1908 Professors Rosa-Linda Fregoso (Latin American and Latino Studies), Aída Hurtado (Psychology), Catherine Ramírez (American Studies), and Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel (Feminist Studies) have been... http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1720 Thomas Pettigrew, research professor of social psychology, has been selected by the International Academy of Intercultural Research (IAIR) to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the group's sixth biennial conference in Honolulu in August 2009....