A Parent's Guide To After-School Activities In Santa Cruz

From a brand partner: Explore local sports, arts, library programs, school-based care and enrichment opportunities for kids.

Police Arrest 80 At Israel-Hamas War Protest At UC Santa Cruz

"For weeks, encampment participants were given repeated, clear direction to remove the encampment and cease blocking access."

UC Santa Cruz​ Academic Workers To Strike Monday: ​EdSource

The strike comes at a pivotal period of the academic calendar, with Santa Cruz in the final weeks of classes for its spring quarter.

Teacher Leo Estrada Praised For 'Down-to-Earth Connection To Students'

Estrada is making a positive impact in Santa Cruz.

California Colleges Struggle In Free Speech Rankings

"Some of the most prestigious universities in our country have the most repressive administrations."

Teacher Spotlight: Michele Delibert Is Dedicated To Her Students

She exposes her students to different areas including environmental sciences and the arts.

CA Schools Face 'Deep Trouble' As Flooding Danger Looms

Experts are urging communities and public agencies like school districts to start planning for flooding as the historic snowpack melts.

Star Student Samara Runs Her Own Business, Donates To Nonprofits

She is an artist, soccer player and straight A student.

$40K Amazon Scholarships Awarded To 2 Future UCSC Students

More than a dozen Bay Area students will receive $40,000 each to study computer science.

Stories Of UCSC Rugby: The Women's Rugby Football Club, 1979–2022

For the first time since 2007, the team finished their season in second place at the Pacific Western Championship match.

Gavilan Student Gets $20K Pister Scholarship To Attend UC Santa Cruz

Aileen Romero is the second person in her family to be awarded the $20,000 scholarship to attend UC Santa Cruz.

UC Santa Cruz Professor Named One Of TIME's 100 Most Influential People Of 2022

The professor and her colleagues led an international team of scientists to complete the first gapless sequence of the human genome.

Former UCSC Chancellor Karl S. Pister Dies At Age 96

Pister devoted more than 70 years to education.

UCSC Student Wins Second Place At Grad Slam 

Hundreds of contestants took part in the events that were held at the 10 UC campuses.

See How Santa Cruz High Schools Scored In National Ranking

The annual ranking released by U.S. News and World Report evaluates schools based on graduation rates, academic performance and more.

Funding Boosts Undergraduate Research Experience In MCD Biology

A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will support undergraduate research UC Santa Cruz.

UC Santa Cruz: Cannibal Galaxies And Devastating Collisions

Amanda Quirk pulled off a feat of galactic proportions at this year's Grad Slam competition in downtown Santa Cruz.

UC Santa Cruz: Chemical Analysis Reveals Effects Of Wildfire Smoke On Grapes And Wines

As wildfire season in the West grows in length and severity, it is taking a toll on the wine industry through the effects of wildfire sm ...

UC Santa Cruz: Keeping The Stoke Fresh

When David Schulkin paddles into a wave off the Santa Cruz coastline, he sees more than just a curling tunnel of blue. He sees life.

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz To Implement Strategic Plan For Internationalization

In support of a campus wide effort to build and strengthen worldwide relationships, UC Santa Cruz will adopt and implement a new strateg ...

UC Santa Cruz: California Sea Grant Funds Graduate Research Fellows At UCSC

California Sea Grant has awarded funding to four UC Santa Cruz graduate students for marine science research projects that address the a ...

UC Santa Cruz: Younger Lagoon Study Tells A Tale Of Two Fishes

Deciphering how species interact with other organisms and their environment is the bread and butter of ecologists. For rare or threatene ...

UC Santa Cruz: New Responsible Data Sharing Technique Will Enable Better Understanding Of Disease-Causing Genetic Variants

Scientists may better understand and test for the genetic variations that cause cancer and other heritable diseases through the applicat ...

UC Santa Cruz: Institute For Advanced Study Selects Environmental Sociologist Hillary Angelo As A Member

She says she’s grateful for the opportunity to focus on the project and is looking forward to collaborating with IAS members.

UC Santa Cruz: Counting The Decades At Alumni Week

UCSC used to be the brash upstart of the UC system. When it opened in 1965, much of the campus was still unbuilt, students were living i ...

UC Santa Cruz: A UCSC Alumni Week Like No Other

Last year, the COVID-19 crisis forced Alumni Week into the virtual realm, with attendants beaming in through their phone or computer scr ...

UC Santa Cruz: Institute For Advanced Studies Selects Environmental Sociologist Hillary Angelo As A Member

UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Sociology Hillary Angelo was selected among a group of 25 world-leading social science researchers ...

UC Santa Cruz: Computer Scientist Yang Liu Wins NSF CAREER Award

Yang Liu, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won a Faculty Early C ...

UC Santa Cruz: Marizza Delgado Leads In The Era Of Multipotentialite Women

Delgado emphasizes that about one-quarter of computing-related jobs are held by women.

UC Santa Cruz: Danielle Dadiego Named Recipient Of 2022 Society For American Archaeology Dissertation Award

UC Santa Cruz alumna and Ph.D. recipient Danielle Dadiego (M.A. Anthropology, '17; Ph.D. Anthropology, '20) is the winner of the 2022 So ...

UC Santa Cruz: Introducing The 2022 Deep Read: Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom

The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz is excited to announce the return of The Deep Read, the annual program that invites students, ...

Santa Cruz County Schools Drop Mask Mandate

12 county superintendents said that masks will be optional after March 11, but they will continue to monitor the situation.

UC Santa Cruz: Exposing The Racist Underpinnings Of 'Neutral' Technology

Technology is often portrayed as a neutral value or a force of good, but Americans who care about social justice should consider the way ...

UC Santa Cruz: A Slow-Motion Section Of The San Andreas Fault May Not Be So Harmless After All

Most people have heard about the San Andreas Fault. It's the 800-mile-long monster that cleaves California from south to north, as two t ...

UC Santa Cruz: Elephant Seals' Map Sense Tells Them When To Head ‘Home'

Each year, pregnant female elephant seals take an approximately 240-day trek over 10,000 kilometers across the Eastern North Pacific Oce ...

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Joins Social Science Research Council

The University of California, Santa Cruz has joined the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) as one of the newest members in the Colle ...

UC Santa Cruz: Ocean Scientist Claudie Beaulieu Wins NSF CAREER Award

Claudie Beaulieu, assistant professor of ocean sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award ...

UC Santa Cruz: Record Applications Enable UC Santa Cruz To Build Strong, Diverse Fall Class

With a focus on excellence and diversity, UC Santa Cruz has started thoughtfully building its fall class after receiving a record number ...

UC Santa Cruz: Family-Friendly Opera Returns To Mainstage Theater This March With My Head Is Full Of Colors

For almost 15 years, the University Opera Theater at UC Santa Cruz has hosted the campus' premiere family-friendly event, welcoming over ...

UC Santa Cruz: Revised Kresge Renewal Project Will Nearly Double Number Of Student Beds At UCSC's Sixth Residential College

Construction at the ambitious, long-awaited Kresge College Renewal project is nearly halfway done. The project has undergone recent chan ...