2023
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Communication, connection and inclusion are priorities for 2023 Outstanding Staff Awardee
Monique Leduc has been a valued member of the UC Santa Cruz community for 34 years, starting as an assistant analyst in the Financial Aid office in 1989. Six years later, she moved to the office that became Financial Affairs and has worked there ever since.
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UC Santa Cruz students win three categories at Orange County Sustainability Decathlon
An interdisciplinary team of UC Santa Cruz students, many from the Rachel Carson College Sustainability Minor program, designed and built EcoHus, an innovative, affordable, net-zero house. The EcoHus team was selected to receive a $100,000 grant to participate in the 2023 Orange County Sustainability Decathlon (OCSD) held on Oct. 5-15, where they won first place…
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Celebrating Election Heroes
November 6 was Election Hero Day, a civic holiday honoring the heroes of American democracy. UC Santa Cruz wants to celebrate the tremendous contributions our students have made, ensuring a safe, secure, and accessible voting experience for everyone in the campus community.
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Alumna Alexis Jackson takes the lessons from the Pacific Coast near UCSC to the environmental policy tables of California
Alexis Jackson is coming up on an anniversary in her professional life. Jackson, a 2014 Ph.D. graduate of UC Santa Cruz’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program, has been with The Nature Conservancy for nearly seven years, and is currently the California Chapter’s Ocean Policy and Plastics Lead based out of San Francisco. Looking back to…
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Championing community transformation
For his service to his community and the public, Abel Pineda received the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award on Oct. 27, 2023.
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True or false? How uncertainty about the accuracy of information affects learning
UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral scholar Karen Arcos, Assistant Professor of Psychology Hannah Hausman, and Department Chair of Psychology Benjamin Storm published new research that explores how the process of guessing whether information is true or not might affect learning.
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Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder receives NEH grant to enrich teaching of Japanese-American incarceration during WWII
Jasmine Alinder, Humanities Dean at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, making it possible for her to co-direct a summer institute that will enrich U.S. educators’ understanding of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and the aftermath of their…
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Emeritus Rex: Tackling the role of King Lear by Professor Emeritus Paul Whitworth
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Paul Whitworth discusses Shakespeare’s ‘retirement’ play, King Lear. Whitworth asks: what happens when you decide to step down and face the last years of your life?
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Irene Lusztig’s Film Richland Explores a Town Grappling with its Ties to the Atomic Bomb
Irene Lusztig’s latest film, Richland, tells the story of the town of the same name. The film opened at Tribeca and at the prestigious International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, it was selected to be part of the program “Signed.”
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Las inmigrantes víctimas de estafas buscan justicia. He aquí cómo ayudarlos a conseguirlo
El profesor asistente de Sociología Juan Manuel Pedroza publicó nuevos hallazgos del primer estudio nacional sobre estafas de inmigración dirigidas a inmigrantes quienes no son ciudadanos.
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Seeing “One Too Many Racist Musicals” is What Led Preston Choi to be a Playwright
Rebecca Wear, professor of Performance, Play and Design, will direct the student production of “You’ll Get Used to It” at UC Santa Cruz on Nov. 3-12, 2023.
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Immigrants targeted by scams are seeking justice. Here’s how to help them get it
Assistant Professor of Sociology Juan Manuel Pedroza’s research has identified trends in what types of justice immigrants who have been targeted by scams are seeking and offers recommendations for policymakers and law enforcement agencies on how to expand access to justice.