Affiliated Organizations and Partners
The Earth Futures Institute collaborates with numerous other centers at UCSC and UCR. Follow links on this page to see their activities.
UC Santa Cruz
UCSC Astrobiology Initiative. Continuing UCSC’s groundbreaking research in astrobiology while training diverse new generations of astrobiologists.
The Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. Unlocking the world’s genomic data to accelerate medical and scientific breakthroughs.
Center for Public Philosophy. Bringing philosophy to broad segments of the public outside of the university setting.
The Humanities Institute. A laboratory for theorizing and implementing new visions of the Humanities via research projects, graduate education, and public programs.
Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning.
Promoting inclusive and engaged teaching and learning to enable every educator and learner on campus to thrive.
Open Lab. Targeting education issues of national significance by enabling art and science collaborations on research and education issues of national importance.
Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Brings together students, researchers, faculty, and members of Industry to lead the AI Revolution.
The University of California Observatories. The optical-infrared research arm of the University of California, operating world-class telescopes at Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, HI, and at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, CA.
Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. Builds on the campus’s progressive values while serving as an incubator for new ideas and an accelerator for pathbreaking scholarship in the public interest.
Science & Justice Research Center. Bringing multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary groups together to tackle the penumbra of intellectual, institutional, and ethico-political questions that today’s complex scientific questions raise.
Center for the Study of the Force Majeure. Brings together artists and scientists to design ecosystem-adaptation projects in critical regions around the world to respond to climate change.
Institute for the Arts and Sciences. An interdisciplinary exhibition and event forum in the Arts Division of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The IAS seeks to harness the creative power of the arts and the sciences to explore the big questions and critical issues of our time.
Advancing Learning Sciences for a New Generation. Collaborating to identify the cultural strengths of learning by children and students from historically underserved populations and to find ways to leverage those strengths in formal and informal settings.