2026
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Student Health Services hosting Student Vaccine Clinic Oct. 7 – 8
Flu, COVID-19, and Tdap vaccines available
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From the humanities to tech leadership: Alumna Lúcia Soares’s journey from UC Santa Cruz to Carlyle
UC Santa Cruz alumna Lúcia Soares is the CIO and Head of Technology Transformation at global investment firm Carlyle. Soares credits her humanities background with giving her critical skills that were essential to her growth in the tech industry.
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Transforming Futures alumni turn summer scholarships into community serving careers
UC Santa Cruz’s Transforming Futures Program, housed within the Social Science Division’s Institute for Social Transformation, is a philanthropy-funded program providing scholarships for students to pursue career-defining internship experiences. Three alumni of the program share how their time with Transforming Futures led to careers in community building.
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Fall Move-In and Slug Start 2026: a welcome built on belonging
Move-in and Slug Start welcomed thousands of Banana Slugs to UC Santa Cruz, creating connections and community at the start of a new academic year.
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How the visual cortex wires itself: targeted from the start, refined over time
A UC Santa Cruz study tracks how the visual cortex builds its long-range connections, finding that they target specific areas from early on, and offers a reference for studying how wiring may go awry in conditions such as autism.
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UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer lab earns prestigious CAP accreditation
The accreditation is widely regarded as the gold standard for clinical laboratory quality, and cements the credibility of the lab’s unique analyses for pediatric cancer tumors.
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Parking policy masks anti-Muslim discrimination for communities building new mosques
New research shows that disputes around parking during the urban planning process are disproportionately used to fight the construction of mosques across the country
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Legendary composer and performer Samuel L. Waymon coming to UC Santa Cruz
The visit includes two movie screenings and discussions that are free and open to the public.
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Important health and safety info: Narcan, fentanyl test strips, and campus support resource
Learn how to prevent opioid overdose and find free Narcan and fentanyl test strips available to UC Santa Cruz students.
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Status quo solutions won’t solve the Monterey Bay area’s housing crisis. But these big ideas just might.
A new report explains how building permanently affordable housing on public land could address workforce housing issues and unlock the region’s economic potential.
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Astrophysicists win AI grant for ‘Holy Grail’ project to automate laborious calibration process
Anthropic’s AI for Science Program has awarded the UC Santa Cruz team nearly $50,000 in API credits to fund the development of an automated wavelength-calibration algorithm for astronomical spectra.
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Jonathan Fortney, Dan Costa honored by American Geophysical Union
Astronomy and astrophysics professor Jonathan Fortney receives 2026 Whipple Award and ecology and evolutionary biology professor Dan Costa named 2026 AGU Union Fellow