2024
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Sparking creativity: Clinch Fuentes’s lasting impact on arts education at UCSC and beyond
Clinch Fuentes, founder and president of nonprofit organization Chance to Excel, supports UC Santa Cruz’s ArtsBridge program, which connects university faculty and scholars with classroom teachers and diverse student populations across Santa Cruz County.
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UCSC Dining celebrates 20 years
UC Santa Cruz Dining celebrates 20 years as a self-operated service. With 18 locations and a focus on community, the milestone highlights the dedication of its staff, resilience through challenges, and commitment to providing quality food and student support for the future.
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UC Santa Cruz neuroscientist to provide rapid-response expertise for AI policymaking
Assistant Professor Dan Turner-Evans will spend the 2024-25 academic year in Washington, D.C., providing expertise to lawmakers as they develop federal policies on artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the rapid-response cohort of Science & Technology Policy Fellows chosen by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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UCSC alumnus Kauchani Bratt stars in Netflix film Rez Ball
UCSC alumnus Kauchani Bratt (Cowell ’23, philosophy) makes his acting debut in the Netflix movie Rez Ball, streaming Sept. 27. The movie, directed by Sydney Freeland, is inspired by Michael Powell’s nonfiction book Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation.
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UCSC Humanities Division welcomes new faculty members
The University of California, Santa Cruz Humanities Division is proud to announce the recent hires of eight outstanding new faculty members whose disciplines range from Literature and Writing to Linguistics and African history.
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New internship program gives UC Santa Cruz and HBCU students a hands-on look at the lives of enslaved peoples in 19th century America
This summer, ten history-minded research interns uncovered rare glimpses of enslaved people’s lives in America. In the process, they helped future scholars understand the slave trade’s growth and development in the United States.
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Welcome to Fall Quarter, Banana Slugs!
Dean of Students Garrett Naiman offers a welcome message to start the 2024-25 academic year.
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2024-25 CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program student funding open for project and event proposals
The 2024-2025 CITRIS Tech for Social Good program at UC Santa Cruz is open for proposals.