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UC Santa Cruz awarded grant to promote and support open scholarship, engaged mentoring
UC Santa Cruz will launch a pioneering initiative to support and promote open science, open scholarship, and high-quality graduate student mentoring by developing guidelines to evaluate and recognize this important work.
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UC Santa Cruz’s deep expertise with elephant seals vital to avian influenza monitoring
Well-trained students and scientists are the boots on the beach collecting the samples and observations needed to help a statewide collaboration of responders monitor the recent outbreak
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With fastest solver and fourth place for D1 schools, UC Santa Cruz finishes strong at 2025 Codebreaker Challenge
The challenge tasks students to develop their reverse engineering and cryptography skills using a realistic cybersecurity scenario
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Exploring the potential impacts of California’s minimum wage for fast food workers
Workers at franchised fast food restaurants got a big pay bump about two years ago. A UC Santa Cruz lecturer suggests that may have come with a side of unintended consequences.
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An adventurous vulture’s plight
Disturbing increases in toxic lead exposure are linked to wider foraging by the critically endangered California condor and more wild pigs being shot throughout the state, masking positive effects of outreach and lead-ammo bans
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Five essential bicycle safety tips for Slugs
With warm and sunny weather, the UC Santa Cruz community is more active, with many community members walking and biking across campus for classes, meetings, and events.
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Following rigorous review, WASC reaffirms UC Santa Cruz accreditation
Being accredited means UC Santa Cruz has met rigorous standards for quality, capacity, and effectiveness.
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UCSC’s Right Livelihood Center empowers the next generation of activists
The Right Livelihood Center at UC Santa Cruz offers students a range of opportunities to connect with global visionaries. Students Natalie Capobres (Kresge ’26, environmental studies) and Kevin Lin (Kresge ’26, community studies) share their experiences.
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UC Santa Cruz advances partnerships in Indonesia, formalizes first 2+2 agreement
UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff traveled to Indonesia in February to sign the campus’s first 2+2 degree agreement with the University of Indonesia and explore additional academic partnerships with universities in Jakarta and Bandung.
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Father’s tobacco use may raise children’s diabetes risk
Mouse study finds link between father’s nicotine exposure and offspring’s metabolism
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‘Dignity in the Fields’: report documents conditions and outlines recommendations for Salinas farmworkers
The report provides practical, equity-centered solutions for the challenges that limit both worker well-being and long-term regional prosperity.
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‘Dignidad en los campos’: un reporte documenta las condiciones y presenta recomendaciones para los trabajadores agrícolas de Salinas.
El reporte ofrece soluciones prácticas y centradas en la equidad para las dificultades que limitan tanto el bienestar de los trabajadores como la prosperidad regional a largo plazo.