Category: Featured

Think local, go global
Ten ambitious UC Santa Cruz research fellows—the first cohort of the new Global and Community Health Wellbeing Awards program—are being trained to recognize essential connections between community issues and worldwide health concerns

The show must (virtually) go on
This year's Irwin Scholars—winners of the most prestigious award in the Art Department—got creative with 3D software to present a pandemic-safe version of their famed year-end exhibit

Hidden figures
UC Santa Cruz Economics Professor Rob Fairlie is sounding the alarm about COVID-19's disproportionate impact on African American/Black-, Latinx-, and other minority-owned businesses, with the aim of addressing the nation's racial wealth gap

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.

Flash point
A gift of a major photography collection provides rare opportunities to engage with powerful, poignant images

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.

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.

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.

College Eight becomes Rachel Carson College
A UC Santa Cruz college born of the environmental movement is named for the writer who inspired it.

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.

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.

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.

&maybetheywontkillyou
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

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.

Crossing borders
At UC Santa Cruz, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department is breaking boundaries and creating thought leaders
