We welcome Professor Yi along with 22 undergraduate and 4 graduate students will visit Santa Cruz for a two week visit! Select in-person lectures and activities allow for a few additional guests to join. Please express interest in these events in this Google Form.
All activities are in-person on campus in the Oakes College Mural Room unless otherwise noted (map).
Thursday-Sunday, January 26: Free Exploration + Arrival to Santa Cruz
Day 1 Monday, January 27: UC Santa Cruz
- 10:00am-10:30am Welcome, Guide and Orientation to Visiting UCSC + Any Questions with JENNY REARDON and COLLEEN STONE.
- 10:30am-11:30am Lecture with JENNY REARDON on “Welcome and Introduction to the Science & Justice Research Center: Origins of Science & Justice and Current Activities.”
- 11:30-12:00pm Lecture with SRI KURNIAWAN on “Innovation at UC Santa Cruz.”
- 12:00-1:00 Lunch + Reception [catered by TBD].
- 1:00-2:30pm Student and Group Introductions (eg: name, major, interests, questions, group’s topic).
- 2:30-3:30pm Break
- 3:30-4:30pm Lecture with JAMES KARABIN on “Leadership in the Ethical and Equitable Design (LEED) of STEM Research”.
- 4:30pm Break + Walk to Rachel Carson College Red Room; walking map.
- 5:00-6:30pm Welcome Dinner with SNU + UCSC Participants and Organizers + The Everett Program Fellows [Location: Rachel Carson Red Room, catered by TBD].
- Walk to RCC/Porter Bus Stop (2671). Catch a Metro bus to the hotel [18, 20]; map.
Day 2 Tuesday, January 28: UC Santa Cruz
- 10:00-11:00am Lecture with JAMES DOUCET-BATTLE: “Training the Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers.” A conversation through a compounded STS, ELSI/bioethics, and health disparities lens, with allied reference to SJRC’s UC-HBCU work with North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and the UCSC Genomics Institute.
- 11:00-1:00pm Lunch break [recommend Oakes Cafe or Cafe Iveta near bookstore].
- Walk to Rachel Carson College Red Room; walking map.
- 1:15-3:30pm Lecture with GONZALO GALETTO on “Niebla Nocturna” and MERVE ÜNSAL on “Sinkhole as a glitch.” Moderated by ANNA FRIZ. [Location: RCC Red Room]
- 3:30-4:30pm Redwood Bathing with SARAH BIRD + Reardon’s Nature and Society Class [Readings: Taking Liberties with Historic Trees, Reckoning with the League Founder’s Eugenics Past].
Day 3 Wednesday, January 29: UC Santa Cruz
- 9:00am-11:00am Lecture + Walk with TIM GALARNEAU (CEJA and the Center for Agroecology) + guided farm tour; walking map. Meet at Oakes.
- 11:00-12:30pm Lunch break [recommend College 9/John R. Lewis Dining Hall or Cafe Iveta].
- 12:30-1:15pm Walk to BIOMED 200; map.
- 1:30-2:30pm Lecture with IBSC (TAYLORLYN STEPHAN, CIRM predoctoral fellow) on human brain organoids with comments from CHRIS KIRCHHOFF. [Location: BIOMED 200; map].
- 2:30-3:00pm- UCSC Braingeneers LAB VISIT: Mini-brains.
Day 4 Thursday, January 30: UC Santa Cruz
- 9:45-10:45pm Lecture with KRITI SHARMA on “Building a Science and Justice Lab.”
- 11:00-12:00 Lecture with DOROTHY SANTOS on “The Infrastructure of Feeling: Voices of Emergency and Crisis Media”.
- 12:00-1:00pm Lunch break [Oakes College Cafe; walking map].
- 1:00-2:30pm Lecture with TIFFANY WISE-WEST and the UCSC SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE SUSTAINABILITY & EQUITY SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER ILEANA BRUNETTI with STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AMBASSADOR: “Innovative Relationships, Environmental Justice and the City” [reference: Inclusive Sustainability and the City of Santa Cruz Climate Action Plan 2030].
- OPTIONAL: 4:30-7:00pm Campus-wide networking event: Innovative Women in Climate & Tech. [Location: HayBarn, map]
Day 5 Friday, January 31: Free Exploration in the greater Bay Area
- Check out of hotel.
- Travel from Santa Cruz to the Bay Area for Free Exploration.
- TBD Visit to Google.
- Check into Holiday Inn Express & Suites San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf.
Day 6 Saturday, February 01: UC San Francisco + Guided Exploration
- 10:00-10:15am Welcome with JULIE HARRIS-WAI (UCSF) on “Welcome to UC San Francisco” [Location: UC San Francisco Pritzker Auditorium ].
- 10:15-11:00am Lecture with SARA ACKERMAN and GALEN JOSEPH on “Centering ethics and social justice in biomedical innovation.”
- 11:00-11:30am Lecture with JENNY REARDON and DENNIS BROWE (UCSC), Introduction to the Just Biomedicine “SF Third Street Project”
- 11:30-1:00pm “SF Third Street Walking Tour” with JENNY REARDON and DENNIS BROWE. [Begins at UCSF Mission Bay campus Pritzker Auditorium, ends at Warriors Way].
- Lunch at Gott’s Roadside – Mission Bay.
Day 7 Sunday, February 02: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area
- Field trip to TBD
Day 8 Monday, February 03: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area
- Field trip to TBD
Day 9 Tuesday, February 04: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area + Stanford + Travel to Santa Cruz
- Check out of hotel.
- Travel to Stanford University; arrive by 9:30.
- 10:00-12:00 Lecture + Meet & Greet with Mildred Cho & The Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics on “Disability Ethics” [Location: Stanford Modular A, 1215 Welch Rd Palo Alto, CA].
- Travel back to Hampton Inn Santa Cruz West [map].
Day 10 Wednesday, February 05: Free Exploration Monterey Bay
- Free day to enjoy the Monterey Bay and work on student projects.
Day 11 Thursday, February 06: Free Exploration + Student Presentation Prep
- 12:00-1:00pm Lunch + Graduate Student Meeting [Location: Oakes 231 or 233].
Day 12 Friday, February 07: UC Santa Cruz
- 9:30am-2:00pm. SNU Student FINAL PRESENTATIONS + Farewell Lunch with SNU + SJRC organizers and Participants. [catered by TBD].
Day 13 Saturday, February 08: Free Exploration in the Greater Bay Area
- Check out of hotel.
- Fly home, other other explorations.