Category: Features
De-extinction could reverse species loss. But should we do it?
From UC Berkeley Alumni Association's California magazine: What would it mean to reintroduce woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons now? UC Santa Cruz Professors Ed Green (a Cal alumnus) and Beth Shapiro weigh in on a controversial topic.
By Leah Worthington, October 2021
The shot felt ’round the world
UC Santa Cruz faculty consider issues of health equity and trust in the national and global vaccine rollout
By Dan White, March 2021
Creating change, from the molecular level up
UC Santa Cruz welcomes eminent biologist and Nobel laureate Carol Greider, known for her pioneering work on telomeres and for her powerful advocacy for increasing women and minorities in the sciences
By Lisa Renner, March 2021
Tech support
UC Santa Cruz faculty are developing assistive technologies to make life easier for those with disabilities and other special needs
By Lisa Renner, March 2021
Troupe dynamic
UC Santa Cruz's African American Theater Arts Troupe, which is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, has not only staged plays but also taken up works that deal with issues of race, injustice, and discrimination; brought its performances into the community; and...
By Peggy Townsend, March 2021
Living languages
The Zapotec Language Project and Nido de Lenguas (Language Nest), a project supported by the Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz, celebrate and promote endangered languages of southern Mexico
By Dan White, March 2021
Confronting COVID
From developing faster tests to building prediction models of the spread of the infection, campus researchers are applying their skills in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
By Lisa Renner, October 2020
Fiction forward
Students, alumni, and community members are participating in a "Deep Read" on the bleak dystopian futures of Margaret Atwood in advance of the Booker Prize–winning author's on-stage discussion during Alumni Weekend
By Dan White, February 2020