Faculty
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Sara Ruhl’s Eurydice is the perfect play for a college campus
In Sarah Ruhl’s play, Eurydice, coming to the UC Santa Cruz on November 10, the story is about the title character.
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Remembering the grave injustices to Japanese-Americans in the 1940s through female activism
On Tuesday, Oct. 3, Cowell College’s Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery launched a two-month exhibition entitled “Never Again is Now: Japanese American Women Activists and the Legacy of the Mass Incarceration.” The exhibit — on display through Dec. 2 — features artwork and historical renderings of women’s memories surrounding this time period, including challenges to racial…
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Cruzin’ to Campus: Five Essential Bicycle Safety Tips for Slugs
Safety should always be a top priority when pedaling your way across campus and around the city.
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Deadline Approaching for Innovation Impact Award Nominations
The nomination window for the Innovator of the Year award closes on Wednesday, November 1. This award recognizes and celebrates UC Santa Cruz’s faculty, researchers, staff, and students across all academic disciplines and areas of study whose outstanding contributions to innovation and creativity catalyze transformative change and societal impact. All faculty, staff and students are…
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Working to improve clarity for patients assessing their genetic breast cancer risk
A project to expedite the analysis of variants on the BRCA 1 and 2 genes, the most commonly affected genes in breast cancer cases, will help more people to better understand their cancer risk.
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Rebates can offer solutions to California’s groundwater woes
Many aquifers in California and around the world are being drained of their groundwater because of the combined impacts of excess pumping, shifts in land use, and climate change. However, a new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley, published on Oct.18 in Nature Water, may offer a solution – it describes…
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Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff in the Division of Social Sciences
The Social Sciences Division’s annual fall breakfast gathered faculty and staff to celebrate the winners of four major divisional awards.
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Long-term plan to end use of fossil fuels at UCSC is released
The Decarbonization and Electrification (D&E) Task Force has released a long-term campus plan to end the use of fossil fuel at UC Santa Cruz and move to 100 percent clean and renewable energy sources.
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Campus Fire Safety
For more than a decade, UC Santa Cruz has been a smoke-free campus. Under California law, “unlawfully causing a fire that recklessly sets fire to or burns or causes to be burned, any structure, forest land or property is a felony punishable with both imprisonment and fines.”
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Slugworks welcomes students across campus to new creative space
Slugworks, a new creatorspace on campus located in the Jack Baskin Engineering building, is open to the campus community.
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FUTURE in Biology program receives NSF grant to explore field courses as a tool for student success
A group of researchers at UC Santa Cruz recently received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impacts of these field courses and develop best practices for making them more accessible.
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Three climate resilience projects supported by 2023 CITRIS Interdisciplinary Innovation Program
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and the Innovation & Business Engagement Hub collaborated to fund three projects focused on climate resilience and that align with developing solutions that address some of the California’s most pressing climate challenges.