2026
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Spring 2026 Campus Elections: ballot information and voting details
Student participation in campus elections is vital to ensuring a vibrant, representative, and inclusive campus community. By voting, students select future leaders and help shape key decisions affecting student life at UC Santa Cruz.
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Senate Faculty Support Survey now open: Share your experiences
The survey is designed to help Academic Affairs and the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) understand how to improve their programs that support faculty research, teaching, and service.
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Thousands of future Slugs gather at UC Santa Cruz for Banana Slug Day
With tours, lectures, a campus welcome, and a lively resource fair, Banana Slug Day gave admitted students an immersive look at academics, support services, and student life, helping them picture their future at UC Santa Cruz.
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Story maps show massive fires like CZU are not a new phenomenon for Santa Cruz
An anthropology project traces the history of land use and fire in the county, revealing lessons for future management and mitigation
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Make purchasing easier with the UCSC OneCard
The UCSC OneCard is the university’s preferred payment method for eligible expenses, and it’s designed to save you time, reduce paperwork, and eliminate out-of-pocket costs.
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New method to raise investment funds for projects that restore coastal wetlands for climate adaptation
Center for Coastal Climate Resilience partners with The Nature Conservancy and others on a first-of-its-kind tool to drive private and public investment in adaptation built by nature
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The language of food: entrepreneur Kendra Baker (Crown, ‘01, language studies) is this year’s Humanities Alumni Award honoree
Kendra Baker, co-founder of the Penny Creamery and The Picnic Basket, is this year’s UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Humanities Alumni Award recipient, an honor that highlights a career shaped by the study of language and culture.
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Threat of California’s native tree loss is greater than current estimates
New study finds that many of the state’s valuable and most recognizable trees could decline sooner than expected because current risk calculations don’t incorporate climate change
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Prioritizing your well-being this spring quarter
Spring quarter can feel demanding. Prioritize your mental health, stay connected, and access support resources available to help you navigate this stretch.
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Mother’s diet and environment may disrupt children’s metabolism
UC Santa Cruz environmental toxicologists find links between mother’s diet, environment, and metabolic-disease risk in mice offspring
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Alumna Gillian Welch brings Dead-driven Acoustic Reckoning show to Quarry Amphitheater
A packed Quarry Amphitheater was filled with fresh interpretations of songs from across the Grateful Dead’s vast catalogue with audience members singing, dancing and cheering along
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Researchers to measure atmospheric benefits of restored San Francisco Bay wetland
UC Santa Cruz will lend expertise in monitoring tidal marsh carbon levels once a 275-acre South Bay salt pond is converted back to its natural state, as part of a larger environmental campaign by multiple partners to restore lost tidal wetlands to San Francisco Bay.