Social Sciences
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UC Santa Cruz Explores Soil Steam Disinfestation as a Non-Chemical Alternative to Strawberry Fumigants
Building on a nearly 60-year legacy of organic innovation, Center for Agroecology researchers are testing a non-chemical soil disinfestation alternative for California’s high-value strawberry industry.
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UC Santa Cruz research trip reconnects Filipino American families across the Pacific
A four-week research trip in the Philippines this summer by an intergenerational team from UC Santa Cruz, the Tobera Project, and the Pangasinan Polytechnic College (PPC) led to reunions and unexpected discoveries.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Evelyne Gong at Deloitte
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Evelyne Gong (Oakes ’25, business management economics) is an audit and assurance associate at Deloitte, one of the Big Four accounting firms.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Serena Ramirez at Pivotal and Northeastern University
One year after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Serena Ramirez is a development associate for Pivotal, fundraising to bring educational and career opportunities to foster youth, and is pursuing her Master’s in public administration from Northeastern University.
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Life Beyond the Redwoods: Maddison Brodeur at Girl Scouts Heart of Central California and Maddison’s Communitea
One year after graduating, Maddison Brodeur (Stevenson ’25, community studies and sociology) is a Regional Coordinator at Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, running her own business, Maddison’s Communitea, and currently serving as Miss Black Sacramento through Nov. 2026.
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Altering the atmosphere could fight climate change, but is it worth the risk? Who gets to decide?
As solar geoengineering technology becomes increasingly viable, public participation in its governance will be essential. A new book shares strategies for supporting public voice.
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Doctoral candidate’s research explores impacts from overuse of H-2A visas in Washington state
H-2A visa loopholes may be displacing immigrant farmworkers already living in the region, especially women, a new report shows.
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Thinking about trading your car in for an EV? Here’s a compelling new reason to do it now
Research shows the carbon emissions benefits are far greater than you might imagine.
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Jessica Lum to serve as UC Santa Cruz’s sixth alumni regent
Since graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Jessica Lum (Rachel Carson ’09, environmental studies and economics) has built a career in external affairs, serving mission-driven organizations, non-profit trade associations, and government. She began her two-year term as an alumni regent earlier this month.
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Nine projects receive seed funding from the Genomics Institute
From listening to the electrical signals of fungal networks in fire-scarred forests to training AI models that can interpret the most complex regions of the human genome, this year’s cohort is using genomics in bold new applications.
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Ethan van Thillo: From student film festival to a cultural institution
Ethan van Thillo (Merrill ’92, Latin American and Latino studies) founded the first-ever Chicano Film Festival at UC Santa Cruz, the first San Diego Latino Film Festival, and San Diego-based nonprofit Media Arts Center San Diego.
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They escaped the slave trade to an island in the middle of the ocean. Almost two centuries later, science is revealing their life histories.
The origin stories of Saint Helena’s Liberated Africans come into focus in a new study combining historical methods, computer modeling, and biogeochemical and DNA analysis.