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Solitary Garden is a public art project created at UCSC by New Orleans-based artist Jackie Sumell to protest solitary confinement and mass incarceration.

Mellon Foundation awards nearly $2 million to support UCSC's ‘Visualizing Abolition’ initiative

Visualizing Abolition launched in fall 2020 at UC Santa Cruz to examine the ways people see and understand issues of mass incarceration, detention, and policing in the United States and abroad, challenging the prevailing social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote.

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Amplifying opportunity

Amplifying opportunity

By Chancellor Cynthia Larive

The Student Success Initiative will increase financial support for undergraduate and graduate students, and advance their access to transformational opportunities.

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They are rising together for justice and racial equity

They are rising together for justice and racial equity

Five influential UC Santa Cruz alumni are among the 17 members of Rise Together, a Santa Cruz area socially conscious philanthropic movement.

Scientists assemble a test tube biological clock

Scientists assemble a test tube biological clock

The reconstituted biological clock maintains daily cycles for days on end, allowing researchers to study the interactions of its component parts.

TED talk on body ideals warns of weight stigma

TED talk on body ideals warns of weight stigma

UC Santa Cruz professor and medical anthropologist Nancy Chen gave a popular TED Salon talk that has been viewed more than 915,000 times online.

Alum's passion for wildlife photography born at UCSC

Alum's passion for wildlife photography born at UCSC

Sebastian Kennerknecht cares so deeply about animals that he built a career in wildlife conservation photography to fight for their survival.

Arts convocation spotlights excellence, inclusion

Arts convocation spotlights excellence, inclusion

Dean Celine Shimizu spoke to the power of music and the arts in a time of ‘solemn joy' during the first UC Santa Cruz Arts Convocation.

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