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A network for the future
UCSC Student Serena Campbell’s senior thesis leads to a comprehensive network between critical environmental researchers on campus.
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New book shares expertise from UC Santa Cruz and beyond on preparing students to tackle environmental justice issues
A new book developed by UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff offers teaching examples, strategies, and classroom tools to help integrate environmental justice into courses in ways that center equity.
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UC Santa Cruz receives $10 million grant to cultivate next generation of food and agriculture professionals
The project will serve hundreds of aspiring food system leaders each year, including graduate and undergraduate college students and farmworkers.
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At UCSC symposium on the Latin American far right, Bolsonaro looms
Latin American and Latino Studies Professor Patricia Pinho and Environmental Studies Professor Flora Lu were featured in post-event and pre-event coverage by Lookout Santa Cruz of a symposium that gathered scholars from Brazil and UC Santa Cruz.
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Research partnership will highlight STEM learning in local community garden
A grant from the Spencer Foundation will help UC Santa Cruz researchers document the many types of STEM learning taking place in a Latinx immigrant-led community garden in Watsonville.
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Growing heritage and healing through traditional Asian vegetables
Faculty, staff, and alumni are drawing upon and strengthening their cultural heritage and connection to Asian foodways to cultivate traditional vegetables.
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John R. Lewis College: Providing the tools to stand up against injustice and create change
John R. Lewis College students take on social justice issues while pushing for positive growth and progress in society.
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College Ten class connects students with Soledad Prison inmates
A first-ever class called “Transcommunal Cooperation and Peacemaking” brought together 14 undergraduates and 28 men incarcerated at the Soledad Correctional Training Facility for an extraordinary 10 weeks of learning and discovery.
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Santa Cruz County Profiles: UCSC professor Flora Lu goes to the Amazon to study where nature, society meet
The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled Environmental Studies Professor Flora Lu, who studies how the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest interact with the natural environment.
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End of the pipeline
In a new book, Professor Flora Lu looks at the oil industry’s impact on the Waorani, an indigenous Ecuadorian population living in a region renowned for its ecological diversity.
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UC Santa Cruz project wins U.S. agriculture grant to diversify food studies
A $275,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will help Colleges Nine and Ten at UC Santa Cruz expand projects in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties to promote food security and food justice among predominantly Spanish-speaking, farmworker families.
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Flora Lu named provost of College Nine and College Ten
Flora Lu, associate professor of environmental studies, has been named provost for College Nine and College Ten beginning in the fall.