The Mott Foundation’s Civil Society Program Director Shannon Lawder at the Gloria Coles Library in Flint, Mich., on March 6, 2026. (Jenifer Veloso/Mott Foundation). When Shannon Lawder (Kresge ’91, ...

The NSF CAREER award-funded research will focus on addiction-recovery and teenage mental health scenarios, but can be applied to any chatbot use.

The blue oak, an iconic tree found only in California and seen across the state’s inland ranges and hills, is far more vulnerable to climate change than is reflected by its current status on the ...

The UC Santa Cruz team building an eddy covariance tower at Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge during high tide. To support the state’s climate change mitigation efforts, as well as its goals for ...

Alison Sanders holds a doctorate in educational leadership from UC Davis in addition to a Master of Arts in marine biology and Bachelor of Science in biology from San Francisco State University.

Alumnus Bruce Stein (Rachel Carson ’78, biology and environmental studies) became a leading voice in the conservation field ...

As record-breaking global temperatures and extreme weather events spark intense debate over global warming speed-up, a new study led by UC Santa Cruz reveals how warming is accelerating differently ...

The sweltering seas expected this winter could threaten California’s kelp forests. UC Santa Cruz researchers are mobilizing ...

A quantitative study of different dark-matter scenarios finds that primordial black holes can be just as 'natural' as ...

Building on a nearly 60-year legacy of organic innovation, Center for Agroecology researchers are testing a non-chemical soil ...

First author Kiyomi Kaneshiro in the Strome lab at UC Santa Cruz. Without altering the genetic code in the DNA, epigenetic modifications can change how genes are expressed, affecting an organism’s ...