News & Events
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We Belong Too
Professor of Psychology Regina Langhout and Associate Professor Steve McKay worked with the United Way’s Youth Action Network (YAN) to pilot an engaged research project titled We Belong Too. Combining youth participatory action research with undergraduate student experiential learning, the project explores what local youth find compelling to study and what they are looking for from their adult allies. To read more, download…
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Making an Exonoree
In fall 2021, Sharon Daniel, Professor of Film and Digital Media launched a two-quarter course titled “Reasonable Doubts: Making an Exoneree” co-taught with Georgetown professors Marc Howard and Marty Tankleff. The course reinvestigated questionable cases, produced short documentaries that made the case for wrongful conviction, and created social media campaigns calling for exoneration. To read more, download…
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Watsonville is in the Heart
Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) is an initiative organized by Assistant Professor of History Kathleen Gutierrez and Associate Professor of Sociology Steve McKay in collaboration with Roy Recio, founder of the Tobera Project aiming to preserve and uplift the history and heritage of Filipino families in Watsonville and the Pajaro Valley. In April 2022, the initiative launched a digital archive, directed by History…
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The Blum Center & Second Harvest Food Bank Partner to Address Food Security in Santa Cruz County
Since 2018, UCSC’s Blum Center and Professor of Psychology Heather Bullock have collaborated with their long-standing partner Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County, to better understand food insecurity across the region. Through engaged research involving Second Harvest staff along with UCSC faculty and graduate students, this partnership has found new ways to understand, track, and address food insecurity…
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The Right to Play: A Policy Guide to California Recess Priorities
Play is a critical input to positive child and youth development. Recess is the only time in the school day when students can learn and practice social and emotional skills as well as be physically active, connect with friends, and take a break from the structure of the classroom. Today, in the aftermath of the…
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Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service at UC Santa Cruz
By Rebecca London Campus + Community is a developing center at UCSC aimed at making visible the vital work that UCSC faculty, staff, and students perform in local communities as well as supporting ongoing and new community partnerships to have lasting effects in the community. As one of its first tasks, C + C undertook…