From 1910 to 1970, humans killed an estimated 1.5 million baleen whales in the frigid water encircling Antarctica. From the perspective ...
Upasna Sharma, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has received a $1.18 million grant fr ...
Hundreds of low-income teens in East San Jose will continue to receive extra help to achieve their college dreams after the federal gove ...
Data analysis company Niche ranked schools across the Bay Area and nation. Here's how Santa Cruz schools stacked up.
There's nothing Egill Bjarnason enjoys more than a good story. Like the October day in 1975 when 90 percent of the women in his native c ...
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Erika Zavaleta, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been selected by the Ecological Society of America ( ...
In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon of California's Ce ...
In her first year as a graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, Jessica Kendall-Bar began working as a fre ...
In his latest book, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Tsim Schneider examines the history of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo peoples in ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled to launch December 18 from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, is the largest, ...
As the dominant seagrass species on the U.S. West Coast, eelgrass supports a wide range of ecosystem services and functions, making its ...
Yolanda Addeman Dybdahl, a long-time volunteer leader in Santa Cruz County institutions and a former UC Santa Cruz Foundation trustee, d ...
Unprecedented observations of a nearby supernova in 2020 have given astronomers an extraordinarily detailed look at the explosion of a m ...
In his new book, Professor of Politics Daniel Wirls calls for reform of the United States Senate by arguing that features like the filib ...
In her new book, UC Santa Cruz biologist Beth Shapiro argues that while gene-editing technology is giving humans remarkable new powers, ...
The Division of Social Sciences faculty, staff, and friends gathered on October 14 at the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn for a spec ...
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has been selected to receive the American Physical Societ ...
The University Library at UC Santa Cruz has accepted an invitation to join the Association of Research Libraries, effective January 1, 2 ...
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering to Roxanne Beltran, assistant profe ...
Faculty members at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the University of Southern California (USC) released a new book, Solidarity Economics: Why M ...
Micah Braly knew when he enrolled at UC Santa Cruz that he wanted to get involved in research. But he didn't know how.
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has awarded 2021-22 American Fellowships to three scholars at UC Santa Cruz who will ...
Renowned conductor Kent Nagano (Porter '74, music, sociology) made an impassioned defense of the arts last week after receiving the firs ...
Daily cycles in virtually every aspect of our physiology are driven by biological clocks (also called circadian clocks) in our cells. Th ...
A new study showing how the explosion of a stripped massive star in a supernova can lead to the formation of a heavy neutron star or a l ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1,977,000 grant to support Visualizing Abolition, the nation's most ambitious and sustain ...
Last spring, George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis led to a wave of activism around the world, with protests against police violence and ...
When you think of North American cities with the strongest connections to Latin America, you probably think of Miami or Los Angeles.
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Sikina Jinnah was recently appointed to an independent advisory committee that will make re ...
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded a $4.9 million grant to UC Santa Cruz for a CIRM Training Program ...
Wildlife conservation photographer Sebastian Kennerknecht and a biologist colleague were setting up a camera in Uganda when both heard t ...
A new Center for Live Cell Genomics, funded by a five-year, $13.5-million grant from the National Institutes of Health, will bring toget ...
Tim Brown spends his summers on top of the Golden State. While other Californians tan at the beach, hold BBQs, or relax at the pool, he ...
To build on existing research strength and branch into new areas of inquiry, UC Santa Cruz has recruited 40 new tenure-track faculty mem ...
Nineteen months after COVID forced its doors to close, the Seymour Center is preparing for a triumphal return. Beginning in October, gue ...
A traditional late-summer heavy marine layer clamped over UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, but nothing could dampen high spirits on the first ...
With experience, training, and ideas of their own, postdoctoral scholars play an important role in furthering research at universities.
New rankings from U.S. News & World Report evaluate colleges based on factors such as graduation rates, student excellence and more.
A two-megawatt solar parking canopy at the East Remote Parking Lot is now online, increasing the campus's use of renewable energy while ...