2026
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Don McCormick’s pioneering career took shape at Kresge College
Don McCormick (Kresge ’76, psychology) built a career exploring how people learn and work together. He traces that work back to Kresge’s bold early experiment in community and participatory democracy.
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Matthew Prescott’s path from Porter College to Hollywood
From student media at Porter College to editing television and films in Hollywood, Matthew Prescott (Porter ’12, film and digital media) built his career through creative experimentation and connections that began at UC Santa Cruz.
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US Higher Education and the Future of Society: A panel discussion
Sponsored by the UCSC Earth Futures institute, the panel discussion will be at 3:30 p.m. on October 27 in the Dougherty Reading Room in the Science & Engineering Library.
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DOE selects AI-driven geothermal initiative to develop safe, affordable way to tap abundant underground resource
UC Santa Cruz will provide geoscience leadership through Emily Brodsky, distinguished professor of Earth and planetary science
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Astronomers use Webb telescope to pinpoint host galaxy of the most distant fast radio burst to date
Originating just 3 billion years after the Big Bang, the record-setting burst was localized with key contributions from UC Santa Cruz collaborators.
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Could a one-time cash payment help lift families out of poverty?
Economics research shows how an alternative form of development aid could alleviate food insecurity in rural sub-Saharan Africa
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Four UC Santa Cruz faculty elected Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences
New Fellows reflect UCSC’s distinctive strengths across planetary science, biodiversity, marine science, environmental governance, and justice
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The Festival of Monsters returns to Santa Cruz
As Halloween draws near, the monsters are about to descend on Santa Cruz. From Wednesday, October 14, through Sunday, October 18, the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies will bring together more than 80 scholars, artists, writers and makers for the fifth annual Festival of Monsters, the center’s largest conference yet.
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Two UC Santa Cruz faculty win NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards
The two awardees are Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jaron Mercer and Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Andy Yeh
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Owl’s Nest serves up a new menu, with a reusable bowl program coming soon
Owl’s Nest debuts a new bowl menu and will be the first UC Santa Cruz dining location to offer USEFULL reusable takeout containers with pilot programming launching this fall.
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UC Santa Cruz joins national research initiative on student basic needs
UC Santa Cruz joins a national research initiative to better understand students’ basic needs challenges and improve access to support.
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Teaching students scientific-storytelling skills to inspire change
The senior capstone course ESCI 191 equips environmental-science majors with digital-storytelling skills to translate complex climate data into compelling narratives to immerse and engage the public.