Category: Featured
Strawberry fields for better
As the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems celebrates its 50th anniversary, we take a look at how its research and fieldwork have revolutionized the cultivation of one of California’s most valuable crops—strawberries.
By Peggy Townsend, March 2017
Flash point
A gift of a major photography collection provides rare opportunities to engage with powerful, poignant images
March 2017
Lights, camera, social action
UC Santa Cruz’s Social Documentation Program, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is producing socially conscious films that bear witness, address injustice, and shine a light on neglected subjects.
By Dan White, March 2017
Pop-Up: Righteous farming
Graduates of UC Santa Cruz's Farm & Garden apprenticeship program have been planting the seeds of organic farming all over the nation and the world by starting their own endeavors—here are a few of them.
By Dan White, March 2017
Why don’t we say what we mean?
UC Santa Cruz linguists and students are putting research to work for Silicon Valley tech companies making devices that can decode the subtleties of human language.
By Scott Rappaport, October 2016
College Eight becomes Rachel Carson College
A UC Santa Cruz college born of the environmental movement is named for the writer who inspired it.
By Joan Springhetti, October 2016
Natural allies
The renaming of College Eight to Rachel Carson College highlights the legacy of a campus with roots deep in environmentalism, leading to a role in shaping public policy.
By Peggy Townsend, October 2016
Helping hands for hunger
With 4 in 10 UC students unable to afford regular, nutritious meals, UC Santa Cruz takes a bite out of the problem with services ranging from free food pantries to help with signing up for state nutritional benefits.
By Peggy Townsend, October 2016
Collision vision
The architect who built UC Santa Cruz’s acclaimed Science & Engineering Library recently sat down for a conversation with his son—a 2014 graduate—on the evolving use of the library as plans shape up for changes to the iconic space.
By Dan White, October 2016
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Alumnus's game aims to build empathy by allowing players to take the role of a poor black American, encountering aggressions from humiliating to lethal
By Leigh Alexander, March 2016
Building a ladder to a cure
A cancer diagnosis used to be a death sentence for children. Now UC Santa Cruz researchers are opening a new front in the battle against the disease.
By Dan White, March 2016
Crossing borders
At UC Santa Cruz, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department is breaking boundaries and creating thought leaders
By Peggy Townsend, March 2016