Social Justice & Community
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Seymour Marine Discovery Center to open first new exhibit in 15 years
See More HQ is the center’s bilingual interactive “control room,” bringing real-time UC Santa Cruz coastal research to the public. Also in Lookout Santa Cruz.
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More of the men being deported now have lived in the U.S. for years
“It rips apart the fabric of the family,” said Regina Langhout, a psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz who has published studies about the effects of deportation on families. “The material and psychological effects can be felt years and years later.”
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Fewer teens are applying for California’s nonbinary driver’s licenses
Phillip Hammack, a psychology professor and director of the Sexual & Gender Diversity Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz(opens in new tab), said these policy shifts may explain the decline in nonbinary identification among California teens.
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Opinion: We’re scientists. We use AI. And we fear it.
Opinion piece by UC Santa Cruz Professors J. Xavier Prochaska and David Haussler issuing a stark warning about the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, along with a call for urgent global cooperation to ensure that technology remains a tool for human benefit rather than a force for societal displacement. Also in the East Bay Times…
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Detrás de la ‘ensalada del mundo’: la dura realidad de los trabajadores del Valle de Salinas
El informe es resultado de una colaboración de cinco años entre el Instituto para la Transformación Social de la Universidad de California en Santa Cruz y el Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño (CBDIO).
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UCSC students develop website to support Seabright small businesses amid Murray Street Bridge overhaul
As the Murray Street Bridge overhaul disrupts Seabright traffic, students from University of California, Santa Cruz step up with a new website to spotlight local shops and keep the neighborhood thriving.
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The Winter Olympics feel like a 90s snowboarding game, and I’m here for it
The Guardian’s games reporter Keith Stuart recommends UC Santa Cruz professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s book “Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us?” to his readers.
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Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota: Not Just a Political, also a Public Health Crisis
Politics Ph.D. student Lucia Vitale argues that immigration enforcement in Minnesota is leading to deteriorating access to health care, widespread psychological distress, and the displacement of protective responsibilities from the state onto communities themselves.
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Free-Speech Lines Blur for Teachers in Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Killing
The government’s move to revoke state-issued teaching licenses in response to teachers’ personal opinions posted to social media—notably not in the classroom or in public school forums—is part of a movement to curtail the free speech of Americans,” said Lora Bartlett, chair of the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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‘People Are Losing Hope’: Suicide Risk Is Rife in ICE Detention Centers
UC Santa Cruz Psychology Professor Craig Haney emphasized that many detainee suicide attempts, and suicidal thoughts, were the result “of their circumstances, a reaction to an otherwise very despairing situation,” he said.
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An inmate died in a Nebraska prison fire. That was just the first tragedy.
Craig Haney, a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explained how restrictive housing in prisons affects inmate behavior. “They’re allowed to deteriorate in these environments,” he said. “Eventually, they act out. The prison system responds to the acting out in the only way it knows, which is the application of force. And…
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In high-cost Santa Cruz County, a generation of young workers increasingly turns to unions
Young local workers once viewed service jobs as temporary steppingstones. Now, more than 80% told UC Santa Cruz researchers that they are open to unionizing, motivated by both economic pressures and a broader vision of workplace democracy.