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UC Santa Cruz professor Phil Hammack joins 1A for a conversation on bi visibility and the unique struggles of those who identify as bisexual. LISTEN: https://go.ucsc.edu/3wA5pSF #pridemonth Professor Hammack studies sexual and gender identity diversity in social, historical, and political context. His specific interests include how sexual and gender identity minorities of distinct generations develop their identities, make meaning of social change, and navigate heterosexism and normativity; gay men’s health, identity development, and sexual cultures in the twenty-first century; sexual subcultures; queer forms of masculinity; intimate diversity, including same-sex relationships, polyamory, kink/fetish relationships, and chosen families.

Watch a moray eel eating on land, caught on video! While most fish need water to feed, a new study by UC Santa Cruz researcher Rita Mehta has found that snowflake moray eels have an extra set of jaws in their throats that allows them to grab & swallow prey on land. Read more over at our news center: https://go.ucsc.edu/3pAfIDf

A $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation will help UC Santa Cruz education researchers document the many types of STEM learning taking place in a Latinx immigrant-led community garden at Calabasas Elementary School in Watsonville. https://go.ucsc.edu/2TxPLbx

Best weekend. Congrats to all of our 2021 graduates!

We asked friends, family, and classmates to send messages to the UC Santa Cruz Class of 2021. Then we made a video! Congrats to everyone in the Class of 2021 -- now go change the world! Check out all the messages to the Class of 2021: classof2021.ucsc.edu

UC Santa Cruz is training the next generation of human rights advocates in the Human Rights Investigations Lab at the Research Center for the Americas, UC Santa Cruz. For their latest project, the lab collaberated with UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center on open-source research focused on the ongoing human rights crisis in Chile, where massive anti-government demonstrations throughout the past year have been met with sometimes brutal government crackdowns. The lab continues to invesitagte social injustices in America and around the world.

In our final installment of the UC Santa Cruz Minute series we take a drive through campus and stop by the Quarry Amphitheater. The UC Santa Cruz Minute is a weekly series connecting Slugs to campus no matter where we are right now. Take a minute, on us. Watch the entire UC Santa Cruz Minute series: https://go.ucsc.edu/37v62mG

This grant seeks to serve our students at the graduate level in two ways, creating programs for our undergraduates to increase the number of Latinx and low-income students seeking and enrolling in graduate school and supporting the success of our Latinx and low-income students that are in our graduate programs. A $3 million federal grant will unleash the potential of UC Santa Cruz to be a leading Hispanic-serving research institution by advancing educational equity among gr...aduate students. The grant will help the campus increase the readiness of Latinx, low-income and students of color from UC Santa Cruz and CSU Monterey Bay to apply and succeed in graduate programs. UC Santa Cruz will offer a number of programs to help undergraduates prepare for graduate school, including a research opportunity program for UCSC and CSUMB students, a course on applying to graduate school, and a course about careers in the creative economy for students in the arts. UC Santa Cruz will also offer workshops in financial planning, establish a graduate student writing center, and develop a first-year experience course that focuses on collective learning. Ultimately, the campus is working to increase graduate degree completion for Latinx, low-income, and graduate students of color by 3 percentage points by fall 2025. https://go.ucsc.edu/31pLlos

We are incredibly grateful to this team of scientists, lab technicians, and researchers who used their expertise to develop processes, procedures, and administration protocol for local COVID-19 testing. In only 4 months they initiated the process for licensing, received approval from federal and state agencies, and developed the capacity to test 400 people per day in a lab they built from scratch. The UC Santa Cruz Molecular Diagnostic Lab will be honored as a 2020 Group Winner in the Be the Difference Awards for their efforts to provide local testing for coronavirus infections. #bettertogether https://go.ucsc.edu/31pO40S

Presenting "Visualizing Abolition," a year long series brought to you by UC Santa Cruz associate feminist studies professor Gina Dent and the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences set to examine the ways people understand issues of mass incarceration, detention, and policing in the United States and abroad. The series kicks off on 10.20 with UC Santa Cruz distinguished professor emerita Angela Davis and continues with speakers such as: 10.27: Bryan Stevenson ...11.17: Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, Nicholas Mirzoeff 12.1: Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley 1.19: Kelly Lytle Hernández, Joanne Barker 1.26.21: Reginald Dwayne Betts 2.2.21: Simone Browne, Ruha Benjamin 2.9.21: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford 2.23.21: Beth Richie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark 4.20.21: Dread Scott and Erin Gray 5.4.21: Film screening and Q&A curated by Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman 5.11.21: Sora Han, adrienne maree brown, Savannah Shange Get more info and register: https://go.ucsc.edu/31er31b See more

Bay Area Slugs: Check out 'Lessons of the Hour', 10-screen film installation & photo exhibition by UC Santa Cruz distinguished professor of the arts Isaac Julien. 'Lessons of the Hour' offers immersive portrait of visionary writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The exhibition makes its West Coast debut tomorrow at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. https://go.ucsc.edu/3jXFyxp

"The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma. Sharing our land acknowledgement in honor of #IndigenousPeoplesDay - a statement that recogn...izes the history and presence of Indigenous peoples and their enduring relationship to their traditional homelands. Land acknowledgements help create awareness of the cultural erasure of Indigenous peoples and the processes of colonization and subjugation that have contributed to that erasure. The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.

So proud of our UC Santa Cruz Archaeological researchers who are among the front line volunteers searching through rubble for homeowners who lost their loved ones’ cremains in the fires that ravaged Oregon and California. https://go.ucsc.edu/3liyyeK

Congrats to UC Santa Cruz alum Forrest Stuart who has become a 2020 MacArthur Fellow for his work challenging long-held assumptions about the forces that shape urban poverty and violence and bringing to light the lived reality of those who experience it. https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1072/

Want to win a $50 Bookshop Santa Cruz gift card while ALSO repping the importance of the 2020 Census? Enter our #SlugsForCensus contest. It's easy -- snap a selfie showing your support for the Census and share using #SlugsForCensus on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. Five winners will be randomly selected. When you fill out the census everyone wins! The Census helps determine federal funding for UC Santa Cruz which includes access to Pell Grants, health services, science and more. Get to snapping!

UC Santa Cruz winter quarter update: UC Santa Cruz will continue to offer most courses remotely or online providing in-person instruction for a small number of courses that may not be effectively delivered remotely. Those without suitable alternative living arrangements will again be prioritized for Winter quarter on-campus housing. Students who are taking all courses remotely and who have a safe place to live and learn should still refrain from seeking off-campus ho...using in Santa Cruz. Student Health Services is providing services in person and remotely. Counseling and Psychological Services, Basic Needs support, Learning Support Services, and CARE are all open and providing services remotely. Even though this is not how we imagined the academic year would look, our community has responded just as we expected with resilience, deep creativity and care for one another. THANK YOU. https://go.ucsc.edu/30I6QQY See more

When the wildfires broke out in Santa Cruz, I was deeply concerned for those impacted by the fires and saddened to hear many students and staff were forced to evacuate with the chance of losing their homes. After hearing this, I wanted to do something for those affected by this tragic event. I came up with the idea to have a fundraiser and with the help of Fresh Prints, a custom apparel company I work at, and designed a t-shirt to raise money for the 2020 UC Santa Cruz Wildf...ire Relief Fund. Slugs helping Slugs we love to see it! Thanks to UC Santa Cruz frosh Wendy Chen (Computer Science Game Design, Cowell College) for helping to contribute to our Wildfire Relief Fund helping students, staff and faculty who were affected by the CZU Lightning Complex Fire. Get a custom shirt to support those affected by the Santa Cruz wildfires. Proceeds are going to the UCSC Wildfire Relief Fund. Open for ordering until 10.18! https://go.ucsc.edu/3nsm2eW

Meet new Slug Aresima Moges, a first year computer science major at Jack Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. "I've always loved UC Santa Cruz. The first time I visited was right after I came to America. My dad was living in San Jose and took us to the beach." Aresima came to America from Ethiopia with her family when she was 8 years old. Leading up to college, she immersed herself in the world of technology with summer internships at Google and Intel. She's start...ed her UCSC journey through the Baskin Engineering Excellence Scholars program. "I want to take what I learn at UC Santa Cruz and use it to help countries, like Ethiopia."