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Deep space photography to go on view at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
A selection of celestial photographs will be on the display in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s atrium starting Thursday. The gallery is a collaboration between the museum and UC Santa Cruz’s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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New initiative will immerse learners worldwide in Indigenous forms of scientific inquiry, understanding
‘Shadow Indigenous Worlds’ will use an educational model pioneered at UC Santa Cruz that allows students anywhere to closely observe and converse with scientists over Zoom as they conduct research in real time
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An interstellar object is passing through our solar system. This UC program says to stay calm and carry on
One of those scientists who you can shadow is Raja GuhaThakurta, faculty director of UC Santa Cruz’s department of Creating Equity in STEAM. For GuhaThakurta, who started the Shadow the Scientists program in 2020, the hysteria around the alien spaceship — or artifact — theory is not only misguided. “This kind of sensationalism ends up ultimately… causing…