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Advising lawmakers on how to boost youth mental health
Sociology Professor Rebecca London testified before the state assembly to share policy recommendations and lessons from local community-led programs
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UC Santa Cruz among top 15 Alt-Ivies of 2025 by Town & Country
Town & Country said UC Santa Cruz was included because of its “growing reputation for research, social justice, and environmental sustainability.”
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UC Santa Cruz and The Conservation Fund create a transformative collaboration to conserve regional habitat and pursue sustainable organic-farm expansion
The collaboration will advance the campus’s leadership in conservation, education, sustainability, and agroecology while preserving critical coastal landscapes and habitats for future generations
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New model aims to demystify ‘steam worlds’ beyond our solar system
Water-rich exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may indicate where life exists elsewhere in the universe
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Brightest fast radio burst ever seen lets researchers pinpoint origin with unprecedented precision
Researchers use newly deployed ‘CHIME Outrigger’ telescopes and deep-space imaging to challenge long-held assumptions about what causes these mysterious cosmic signals
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New program to train U.S. college students from all backgrounds to be conservation leaders
$1 million from Cedar Tree Foundation will fund a conservation-leadership academy to continue the work of the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars program at UC Santa Cruz
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Building a clean energy economy that benefits everyone
New book offers a model for tackling climate change while supporting workers and communities in the transition to renewable energy
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Ariel Chan is a new voice for linguistics and bilingualism studies
For as long as she can remember, Assistant Professor of Languages and Applied Linguistics Ariel Chan has lived her life in two languages. Now one of three new Humanities faculty hires at UC Santa Cruz, Chan is challenging outdated assumptions about bilingualism through her work at the intersection of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and neuroscience.
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UC Santa Cruz-based survey uses AI to spot explosive stellar death by black hole
Machine learning enables real-time detection of fleeting anomalies before they fade away
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UC Santa Cruz marine biologists bring expertise to regional scientific organizations
Professors Roxanne Beltran and Dan Costa named to committees focused on activities on the West Coast and in Antarctica
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Global physics conference comes to UC Santa Cruz for first time—and why it matters
Physicists from around the world will converge on campus to offer possible answers to some of the biggest and most vexing questions about the particle makeup of the universe and everything in it.
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Digital game demonstrates the power of religion for climate change education
‘Shloka’ uses Hindu deities, practices, and narratives to communicate the problems of climate change