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UC Santa Cruz Library publishes vast photo archive from iconic ‘Death of a Valley’
UC Santa Cruz Library has digitized and made publicly available 3,200 images taken by Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones from their photo project that captured the final year of Monticello.
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A reckoning in fiction: Karen Tei Yamashita returns to Bookshop Santa Cruz with acclaimed new novel Questions 27 & 28
Bookshop Santa Cruz will host the celebrated novelist and Emeritus Professor of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita for the launch of her new book, Questions 27 & 28, in conversation with History Professor Alice Yang.
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In Memoriam: Maxine Lane (1926-2026)
UC Santa Cruz retiree Maxine Lane died on April 17, 2026 at 99 years old. Maxine worked at the campus for 22 years and was a staunch supporter and advocate for UC Santa Cruz veteran students.
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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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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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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.

