Inquiry with impact
IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz and Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz welcome poet Javier Zamora for a discussion of his moving, page-turning memoir, Solito—the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine. Francisco Cantú calls Solito "a new landmark in the literature of migration, …
The 2022 Harvest Festival will feature live music, an apple pie baking contest, apple pressing, hands-on workshops, tractor rides, with food vendors and hydration stations to keep you nourished.
We are pleased to announce that Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor of Solidarity Economics will be joining us to discuss their approach to address widening income inequality, rising economic insecurities, and growing social and racial fragmentation while also promoting innovation and economic growth. Congressman Jimmy Panetta will also be joining us to provide a federal legislative update on policies and programs impacting our region.
The event has SOLD OUT. Livestream program will begin at 6 p.m. NOTE: the event will not be archived. It can only be viewed in real time.Livestream Link: https://video.ibm.com/channel/ucsc-special-events Please join us for the renaming of the Research Center of the Americas in honor of civil rights & feminist icon Dolores Huerta! The event, to celebrate …
A national conference that focuses on sharing strategies to expand and deepen collaborative approaches for the truly equitable co-production of knowledge. We will explore the dynamic links between campus-community partnerships, hands-on research, and student-community engagement. Together we can build partnerships for change.
An award-winning and nationally-televised film, which was filmed in Watsonville and follows Ashley, a Mexican-American teenager, who dreams of graduating high school and going to college. But when ICE raids threaten her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner, working days in the strawberry fields and nights at a food processing company.
An investigation on the benefits and burdens of positionality, or the disclosure of how an author's racial, gender, class, or other self-identifications, experiences, and privileges influence research methods.
Join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and UC Santa Cruz alumna Laurie Garrett who will be discussing what it will take to prevent the next pandemic, and protect both health of our planet and the future of global health.
Each year, 4 people or organization are given the Right Livelihood Award. Join us on November 30 in honoring the world's foremost change-makers, Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman (Somalia), Oleksandra Matviichuk and the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine), the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (Uganda) and Cecosesola (Venezuela).
The Center for Integrated Spatial Research presents a talk with Dr. Christopher Wilmers, professor of Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz and lead investigator for the Santa Cruz Puma Project.
Evaluating Engaged Research in Promotion and Tenure: Not Everything that Counts Can Be Counted Lauren Wendling, Director of Institutional Success at Collaboratory This study investigated how school- and department-level promotion and tenure committees not only define and understand faculty’s engaged research, but how they evaluate it. This study explored what goes into making evaluative decisions, …
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley will present his new book Silent Spring Revolution, which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973). Brinkley will be joined by State Senator John Laird for a question and answer session, including questions from the audience.
