• February 26, 2021

  Campus launches first Black studies minor

  UC Santa Cruz's Black Studies minor offers students grounding in the intellectual histories, political movements, cultural expressions, and critical theories of the Black diaspora.

• February 26, 2021

  Massive debris flow swamps Big Creek Reserve as heavy rains follow summer wildfire

  Boulders the size of vehicles and decades-old redwoods were ripped from the banks of the Big Creek drainage when an atmospheric river inundated the Landels-Hill Big Creek Natural Reserve on the Big Sur coast in late January.

• February 26, 2021

  Deep Read to present Tommy Orange in conversation with literature professor Micah Perks

  Award-winning novelist Tommy Orange will be featured in conversation with literature professor Micah Perks, director of UCSC’s Creative Writing Program, in a free virtual event on Wednesday, March 3, at 6:30 p.m. 

• February 25, 2021

  Forest monitoring efforts contribute to new understanding of climate change impacts

  Data collected by student interns at UC Santa Cruz’s Forest Ecology Research Plot recently contributed to a breakthrough in understanding how climate change affects forests.

• February 24, 2021

  Notes of resistance

  History Professor Eric Porter delves deeply into jazz improvisation as a means for "resistance, survival, and promoting one’s own resiliency."

• February 23, 2021

  COVID and the road ahead

  UC Santa Cruz infectious disease expert A. Marm Kilpatrick looked toward the future during his immersive Kraw Lecture about COVID vaccines, variants and the road ahead.

• February 23, 2021

  Bay Tree Bookstore undergoing refresh

  The UC Santa Cruz campus community can expect to see a number of changes at the Bay Tree Bookstore over the coming months, including a broader embrace of e-commerce.

• February 22, 2021

  LASER talk to feature research by UCSC deans of the humanities and social sciences

  The event will feature research presentations by Jasmine Alinder, Dean of the Humanities (“Representing Japanese American Incarceration”), and Katharyne Mitchell, Dean of the Social Sciences (“Sanctuary Space and Insurgent Memory”).

• February 21, 2021

  Bringing physical engagement into the online teaching and learning environment

  A new series of videos is now available to UCSC students, faculty, and staff to help offset the increasingly sedentary lifestyle generated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

• February 18, 2021

  Computer scientist Yang Liu wins $1M grant for research on fairness in AI

  Liu’s research aims to achieve more equitable outcomes from decision-making tools based on automated machine-learning algorithms.

• February 17, 2021

  Oldest DNA sequences reveal how mammoths evolved

  Analysis of ancient DNA sequences recovered from mammoth teeth reveal North American mammoths were descended from two earlier mammoth lineages.

• February 16, 2021

  Hope, mutual aid, and abolition

  Activist and organizer Mariame Kaba offers a blueprint for mutually supportive communities during the 37th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Convocation

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