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Legendary composer and Nina Simone brother, collaborator Samuel Waymon to bring six-decade legacy to UCSC
Samuel Waymon, the legendary composer and activist who spent a quarter-century shaping the sound of his sister Nina Simone, is bringing his six-decade cultural legacy to UC Santa Cruz this October for a weeklong residency.
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UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis score state funding for physician training, recruitment program
California’s fiscal year 2026-27 budget allocated $3.3 million to the forthcoming UC Programs in Medical Education Central Coast, also known as Prime Central Coast.
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UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis score state funding for physician training, recruitment program
A medical program meant to train — and ideally retain — physicians in Santa Cruz County received a heavy dose of funding support from state lawmakers as organizers prepare to welcome students next year. California’s fiscal year 2026-27 budget allocated $3.3 million to the forthcoming UC Programs in Medical Education Central Coast, also known as…
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Scientists looked at Antarctica from the air. What they saw has them worried
“It’s exactly what it sounds like,” says co-author Michael Polito, a professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in a statement. “We spied on penguins from space by using satellite images to figure what they eat all around Antarctica to help explain their diet and population response to recent climate change.”…
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DNA from African graves provides surprising window into slave trade
In addition to DNA evidence, strontium isotope analysis led by Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze helped determine the most likely regions of origin within Africa for people who escaped from the slave trade to Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic.
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Unequal access to California’s beaches
Coastal access is not equal among communities in California, according to a paper from UC Santa Cruz published this week.
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UC Santa Cruz expands undergraduate housing guarantee to two years starting this fall
UC Santa Cruz will be expanding its one-year housing guarantee to two years for new undergraduate students starting this fall.
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Meet the Doyennes of Ecosexuality
In their latest film, Annie Sprinkle and Art Professor Beth Stephens advocate replacing an exploitative relationship with the Earth with one based on intimacy, care, and pleasure.
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New Research Details How Mountain Lions Navigate Around Hikers in the Santa Cruz Mountains
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz spent years fitting pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains with GPS collars, then compared the animals’ movements against Strava data from hikers, runners and mountain bikers using the same trail network.
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Why a growing mass of warm water in the Pacific could be trouble for future weather
Pacifica is developing plans to deal with the rising water. But Gary Griggs, who specializes in coastal processes and hazards at UC Santa Cruz, doesn’t think there’s much the city can really do to stop the waves. “We can put in sandbags. We can bulldoze up sand berms. But we have really big waves and…
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Can we predict deadly cliff collapses along the California coast? Scientists say it’s possible
Patrick Barnard, who spent years leading coastal erosion research for the U.S. Geological Survey, said the latest Scripps data are promising and the next big question is scalability. Crumbling cliffs loom over more than 530 miles of the California coast, and the cost of establishing a statewide sensor network would be significant.
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The cell that wasn’t there
For decades, Jon Zehr was haunted by an organism he knew was here — but couldn’t see. It all started in the ‘90s on a research boat in the middle of the ocean. Zehr was an oceanographer studying nitrogen-fixing bacteria — simple, microbial life forms that could pull the element straight from the air, making…