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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

Features

Beating crime by a hair

Biomolecular engineer Ed Green’s new technique to extract DNA from hair samples to help identify killers and victims could help solve thousands of cold cases

By Peggy Townsend, February 2020

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Instituting change

UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for Social Transformation incubates, funds, and helps amplify important social sciences research, aiming for wide audiences and maximum impact

By Dan White, February 2020

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A growing movement

An 18-month project around art and incarceration—including the striking participatory landscape art piece called “Solitary Garden”—is a comment on mass incarceration and racial injustice in the prison system

By Peggy Townsend, February 2020

Alumni profiles

Chris Brown: Street wise and book smart

When the bullet missed Chris Brown's head by millimeters, it set him on a course toward teaching criminal justice and working to end the gang violence on the streets of Los Angeles.

By Peggy Townsend, March 2016