UC Santa Cruz research focused on the wildland-urban interface and disaster resilience and preparedness will be on interactive display Sunday as Watsonville celebrates Earth Day at its downtown plaza.
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How do high schoolers in your area really fare after graduation? A new California tool lets you know
California’s new Cradle to Career dashboards track students’ college paths and earnings after high school graduation — but leave out some key details.
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Seymour Center’s Ms. Blue comes to life in new augmented reality experience
Visitors to Santa Cruz’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center can experience the iconic whale skeleton known as Ms. Blue as augmented reality on their phones while the bones undergo a lengthy restoration process.
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UC workers in patient service, transportation and research announce third daylong strike of year
Unions representing about 60,000 employees across the University of California system, including 753 at UC Santa Cruz, will strike May 1 to protest what they say is the university’s unlawful conduct.
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Trump policy targeting immigrants shuts California students out of federal programs
Federal programs offer financial aid and counseling to low-income and first-generation college students. California was allowed to include students without legal status, which the Trump administration is now ending.
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How UC Santa Cruz lost its crown as the ‘most stoned campus on earth’
As UC Santa Cruz students gear up for the annual 4/20 gathering at Porter Meadow, the campus’ once-legendary status as a stoner paradise is fading. Cannabis legalization, Gen Z’s changing social habits and the university’s growing focus on STEM and research have reshaped the school’s identity. Keith A. Spencer explains why UCSC’s stoner identity seems to have gone up in smoke.
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UCSC biologist part of team that brought version of dire wolf back to life
Earlier this month, a company focused on conservation, Colossal Biosciences, announced the “de-extinction” of the dire wolf. UC Santa Cruz professor Beth Shapiro, who worked on the project, told Lookout about the history of the effort and its significance, and addressed some of the criticism.
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Letter to the editor: UCSC should not charge students for textbooks – school is too expensive already
In a letter to the editor, a UC Santa Cruz student proposes that the university make textbooks free for those attending.
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Judge delays hearing in UCSC protester phone seizure case as supporters pack courtroom
UC Santa Cruz student Laaila Irshad is asking a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge to quash a search warrant that gave UCSC police full access to her cellphone. Her lawyers spoke to Lookout about the status of their petition Monday.
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‘It’s pretty devastating’: UCSC biologist’s research upended by Trump NIH funding cuts
Roughly 150 UC Santa Cruz protesters rallied against President Donald Trump’s cuts to research grants Tuesday, including biologist Alison Mills, who learned her research on cell division would lose NIH funding.