Inquiry with impact
Gabe Zimmerman (Stevenson '02, sociology) was U.S. Congresswoman Gabby Giffords's community outreach director. He organized the "Congress on Your Corner" event on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz., where he was among four people killed in a shooting that also severely wounded Giffords and 13 others. Gabe’s unofficial nickname on Giffords’s staff was “The Constituent …
New technologies in our agro-food system hold both tremendous benefits and potential harms. This era will require inter-disciplinary expertise and cross-disciplinary dialogue to maximize benefits and minimize harms from technological change. UCSC is well-positioned to contribute. In October 2020, faculty from several departments at UC Santa Cruz met for a preliminary discussion about what a …
In this gathering, we share evidence-based insights into community-supported learning by children and students during and beyond the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. New Gen Learning is an interdisciplinary consortium that brings together faculty and students from all divisions on campus to work on research that identifies the strengths for learning in children and students …
