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NBC News
From Prince Harry to Steve Bannon, unlikely coalition calls for ban on superintelligent AI
The statement is a product of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit group that works on large-scale risks such as nuclear weapons, biotechnology and AI. Its executive director, Anthony Aguirre, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said AI developments are happening faster than the public can understand what’s happening or what’s next.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
‘A very challenging time’: SNAP cuts and lost funding deepen food insecurity in Santa Cruz County
According to a study done by researchers at UC Santa Cruz in 2019, around 42% of individuals who are food-insecure depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP – the modern equivalent to food stamps – to purchase food with an EBT card.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Why Does the Trump Compact Talk About Grading?
Professor Jody Greene, who recently served as associate campus provost for academic success at UC Santa Cruz and was the founding director of its teaching center, says some conservative critiques of grading link to conservative efforts to abandon holistic admissions and dismantle DEI programs.
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WKBT News 8
Amy Lonetree gives keynote address at Indigenous People’s Day celebration
Amy Lonetree, a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Ho-Chunk Nation citizen, gave the keynote presentation, “Visualizing Native American Survivance: A Photographic History of the Ho-Chunk Nation, 1879-1960,” at UW La Crosse’s Indigenous People Day celebration. Lonetree’s talk covered the unexplored the visual history of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
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The Mercury News
Bay Area universities losing millions in minority grant funding
Ben Diaz, a Latino junior political science student at UC Santa Cruz said the university’s Hispanic-Serving Institution grant supports many resources for students, including its Chicanx Latinx Resource Center, El Centro.
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Scientific American
Volcano Worlds Might Be the First Exomoons Found by Astronomers
Co-author on the new study, postdoctoral researcher Athira Unni of the University of California, Santa Cruz, released measurements of the movement of sodium around WASP-49b, citing the rapid velocity around the system as a clue toward the origin being a volcanic satellite rather than stellar eruptions or other astrophysical sources.
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India West
Silicon Valley Conference Calls For Deeper U.S.-India Cooperation In Tech And Innovation
The 8th U.S.-India Conference, organized by the All India Management Association (AIMA), drew a packed audience to the University of California, Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Campus on October 7.
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Inside Higher Education
Normalizing Rejection for College Students
Facing rejection or failure can be an isolating experience. To address this, Emily Giovanelli and her colleagues at the Student Health Outreach and Promotion office and the UC Santa Cruz libraries created stations where students can share their latest failures.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
2025 Festival of Monsters features horror panel, roleplaying game
A feature story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted the Festival of Monsters, including an event with Literature Professor Kimberly Lau, who will discuss her book Specters Of The Marvelous: Race and Development of the European Fairy Tale on Thursday.
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Science Magazine
DNA from rum-soaked fishes chronicles century of environmental change
By comparing DNA in historic specimens with that in modern fish populations, researchers discovered that fishes grew scarcer and their genetic diversity declined. That’s worrisome, says Malin Pinsky of the University of California, Santa Cruz, because “genetic diversity provides the raw material for adaptation to novel conditions. Less genetic diversity means less ability to adapt…