Dr. Chris Benner joins our #ERI15Years celebration to share ERI’s impact on his academic journey. W/ a collaboration spanning 25+ years, Dr Benner highlights the pivotal role of research in powering change through meaningful community partnerships.
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🎨Have you seen the newest mural for @huerta.ucsc? The center’s artist-in-residence, Josué Rojas, a practicing visual artist, muralist, and educator, created this beautiful work with students' support.

Learn more about the mural + artist + funders: ow.ly/mFYS50Pqcq5

Research Roundup Highlight 👉 Assistant Professor Maywa Montenegro co-authored Governing Food System Data: Is the UN Committee on World Food Security Up to the Task?, published in Global Data Justice.

Read the full essay here: globaldatajustice.org/gdj/2950/

The final stretch of UC Labor Summer is here, and it's a reminder of how far we've come as advocates.

ICYMI 👉Assistant Professor of Economics Ariel Zucker co-authored the paper Countering diabetes with incentivised lifestyle changes: Evidence from India in VoxDev.

Read the full paper here: voxdev.org/topic/health-e…

#MotivationMonday : Bill Fujioka's journey from a custodian and gardener at UC Santa Cruz in the 1970s to becoming the Chair of the Los Angeles Japanese American National Museum (JANM) is nothing short of inspiring!

Read the full story here: news.ucsc.edu/2023/07/bill-f…

It has been another school year full of impactful research from our Building Belonging program fellows! From education surveillance to climate issues, students work with a faculty mentor and lead their own research projects. Learn about their experiences: transform.ucsc.edu/qa-with-buildi…

🏜️Should public land be used for renewable energy development? Associate Professor Hilary Angelo’a article, Boomtown: A solar land rush in the West, published in Harper's Magazine answers this question based on fieldwork in Nye County, NV.

Read the full article: harpers.org/archive/2023/0…

August 14, 06:30 PM 👉 What Can We Learn from the Airport? | Slugs & Steins w/Professor Eric Porter

In this talk, Porter will discuss SFO as a site whose history reveals important perspectives on a wide range of phenomena.

Register for the Zoom: ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

ICYMI 👉Assistant Professor J. Mijin Cha of Environmental Studies (ENVS) published 'The Future of the Labor-Climate Alliance' in Dissent Magazine

Read more here: dissentmagazine.org/article/the-fu…

It has been another school year full of impactful research from our Building Belonging program fellows! From education surveillance to climate issues, students work with a faculty mentor and lead their own research projects. Learn about their experiences: transform.ucsc.edu/qa-with-buildi…

🗞️ Check out this thought-provoking article in The Washington Post, The 1943 riot that spotlights how drag show bans can fuel violence, by LALS professor Dr. Catherine S. Ramírez. Read more: washingtonpost.com/made-by-histor…

Images: Public domain of 1943 Zoot Suit Riots

📣 NOW HIRING 📣The Institute for Social Transformation at UCSC is searching for a new Managing Director!

View the full job description here: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01536

Learn more about the Institute for Social Transformation here: transform.ucsc.edu

#ICYMI 👉The Center at Sierra Health Foundation announces $3.995 million in awards across 22 new Community Economic Mobilization Initiative (CEMI) grantee partners

Read more about the organizations awarded here: shfcenter.org/2023/07/the-ce…

Halfway mark alert! UC Labor Summer has been a whirlwind of learning, collaborating, and advocating for workers' rights.

Alumni Update 👉 Former San Jose Vice Mayor and Council member, Madison Nguyen (Rachel Carson ’97, history), announces a return to politics in 2024 Santa Clara Board of Supervisors run

Read more about this exciting development here: news.ucsc.edu/2023/07/madiso…

It has been another school year full of impactful research from our Building Belonging program fellows! From education surveillance to climate issues, students work with a faculty mentor and lead their own research projects. Learn about their experiences: ow.ly/AaSo50P6i8h

Just in 👉 UC Santa Cruz will be the next leader of @RightLivelihood College network as the newest Global Secretariat🎊

Read more here: news.ucsc.edu/2023/07/right-…

Image: Anthropology Prof. Nancy Chen interviews 1993 Right Livelihood Laureate Vandana Shiva. Credit: Steve Kurtz

🐟 UCSC’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience awards over $4.6 million to support California coastal projects

Learn more about all of the project teams for these awards: news.ucsc.edu/2023/06/cccr-a…