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A fresh look at TikTok: Short food videos encourage long-term healthy eating habits in teens
Research from UC Santa Cruz human-computer interactions scholars is revealing how online habits translate into offline actions.
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Revolutionary Rubin Observatory debuts with first images taken by world’s largest camera
UC researchers have made key contributions to the 20-year collaboration.
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UC leads American public research universities in global impact, new rankings show
All 10 UC campuses are among the best universities in the world in research impact, with eight among the top 25 public universities in the United States, according to the 2025-26 Best Global Universities ranking from U.S. News & World Report.
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Acclaimed author William Finnegan on his long journey to The New Yorker
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Award from UC Santa Cruz.
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Next up for UC’s Class of 2025? Building California’s brilliant future
From jobs to graduate school to giving back to the communities they came from, UC’s latest crop of graduates has big plans to make a difference.
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AI is good at weather forecasting. Can it predict freak weather events?
A new study tests neural networks’ ability to handle ‘gray swan’ events.
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Saritaan: Preserving Filipino migration stories across oceans and generations
A new UC Santa Cruz initiative called Saritaan — meaning “to talk story” in Ilokano — is preserving the untold migration stories of Filipino families.
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The ripple effect of small earthquakes near major faults
Minor quakes can disrupt natural tectonic patterns deep underground and change stress landscape, new study finds.
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9 UC alumni awarded 2025 Pulitzer Prizes
Across categories of reporting, biography, history, and nonfiction UC alums from four campuses produced urgent work of the highest quality.
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Jammin' with Ronan: Rhythmically trained sea lion returns for an encore—and performs as well as humans
Ronan, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, continues to challenge our understanding of biomusicality.
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What makes a UC education stand apart? Opportunities for hands-on learning and undergraduate research
For these UC students, hands-on research has led to class credit, money for school and a path to their dream future.
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Lick Observatory to mark 150 years of discovery and innovation
Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking discoveries and innovation, training the next generation of astronomers and astrophysicists.