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Marketplace
How regional Federal Reserve banks contribute to monetary policymaking
Regional Fed Presidents are chosen by independent boards and then sent to the Board of Governors in DC for approval. “It’s just more layers away from DC and that allows a little bit more protection of independence,” said Galina Hale, an economics professor at UC Santa Cruz.
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KAZU
Solutions for Salinas Valley groundwater contamination exist, but adoption is slow
Hannah Waterhouse is an assistant professor of agroecology at the University of California Santa Cruz. At a test field on campus, she’s researching how cover crops benefit soil moisture and water quality.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
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.
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Interesting Engineering
Forget smartwatches, scientists teach WiFi to monitor heartbeats
Your WiFi can now do more than stream movies; it can sense the beat of your heart. Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a system that turns everyday wireless signals into a medical tool. Additional coverage in CNET and Tom’s Hardware.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Joint Cabrillo-UCSC student housing project to finally break ground this month
Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz will break ground Sept. 29 on a long-planned, $111 million joint student housing and child care project at Cabrillo’s Aptos campus.
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KSBW
Central Coast colleges make Forbes’ best public colleges in the nation
California universities dominated Forbes’ recent list of the top 500 colleges in the United States. On the Central Coast, UC Santa Cruz made the list at No. 63.
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The Globe and Mail
Class-action trial in Manitoba to challenge province’s use of segregation jail cells on children
Craig Haney, a psychology professor with the University of California, Santa Cruz, is among three academics to provide expert reports as part of the lawsuit. “The conditions of confinement I encountered were stark and depriving − ranging from very bad to outright egregious,” he said.
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Euronews
Birdwatchers flock to Colombia and South Africa- so why are Venezuela and DRC being left behind?
“Over the years, we’ve seen Colombia really explode as a birdwatching destination, and we often asked ourselves why more countries aren’t similarly recognized as great places for birdwatching,” said Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, lead author of the new UC Santa Cruz study.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
The state of labor on Labor Day 2025
Teresa Ghilarducci, a research fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community, wrote an opinion article about the need to defend workers’ rights, voice, and the truth about their conditions.
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Mongabay
Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study
A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones and the high seas by 2050. “It’s an important issue and an important paper that I think should make anyone concerned about fisheries or the seafood on their plate sit up and…