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Serious wordplay

Professors in UC Santa Cruz’s creative writing concentration encourage risk and responsibility, leading a program that’s experimental, playful, smart, and fresh

By Dan White, May 2022

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Computers and us

UC Santa Cruz’s new professional M.S. program in human-computer interaction examines the interfaces between people and computers—a study that’s becoming more important than ever as technology proliferates

By Lisa Renner, May 2022

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Learning about learning

UC Santa Cruz’s New Gen Learning—a research consortium made up of faculty and graduate students from diverse fields—highlights the learning strengths of underserved children and students

By Lisa Renner, May 2022

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Reasonable Doubts

A remarkable, first-time film course at UC Santa Cruz tackles the criminal justice system, aiming to free wrongfully convicted people incarcerated in American prisons.

By Nina Sazevich, May 2022

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‘John Lewis’s legacy will imbue all we do’

Once considered a ‘scrappy upstart,’ College Ten—to be named John R. Lewis College following an endowment gift—plans to continue and expand upon the strong programs that led to the naming after the late congressman and civil rights icon

By Dan White, February 2022