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, ...

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz: Generous Gifts Help UCSC Shatter Fundraising Records In Holiday Food Drive

UC Santa Cruz surpassed all previous records during its participation in the annual Second Harvest Holiday Food & Fund Drive, raising th ...

UC Santa Cruz: A Surprising Heat Source Is Melting The Greenland Ice Sheet From The Bottom Up

Researchers have observed extremely high rates of melting at the bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet, caused by huge quantities of meltwat ...

UC Santa Cruz: 'Abolition. Feminism. Now.' Earns National Praise

A new book, authored by UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita Angela Y. Davis and Associate Professor Gina Dent with colleagues Erica R. Meine ...

UC Santa Cruz: Easy Aluminum Nanoparticles For Rapid, Efficient Hydrogen Generation From Water

Aluminum is a highly reactive metal that can strip oxygen from water molecules to generate hydrogen gas. Its widespread use in products ...

UC Santa Cruz: Physicist Michael Dine Takes Readers On A Journey To The Edge Of Reality In New Book

Throughout his career, UCSC physicist Michael Dine has explored challenging questions at the forefront of theoretical research in partic ...

UC Santa Cruz: Chemistry Professor Yuan Ping Wins Sloan Research Fellowship

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship to Yuan Ping, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry a ...

UC Santa Cruz: A New Musical Play, 'The Artificial Woman,' To Receive Its World Premiere At UC Santa Cruz This Month

The astonishing, true story of Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka's tempestuous love affair with composer Alma Mahler and the obsession tha ...

UC Santa Cruz: Tilting Of Earth's Crust Governed The Flow Of Ancient Megafloods

As ice sheets began melting at the end of the last ice age, a series of cataclysmic floods called the Missoula megafloods scoured the la ...

UC Santa Cruz: First Nationwide Study Of Scams Targeting Immigrants Shows Local Social Context May Help Or Hinder Reporting

Assistant Professor of Sociology Juan Manuel Pedroza recently published the first nationwide data analysis on immigration scams that tar ...

UC Santa Cruz: UCSC Selected To Join US CYBERCOM Academic Engagement Network

University of California, Santa Cruz will join the inaugural class of the U.S. Cyber Command's (CYBERCOM) Academic Engagement Network (A ...

UC Santa Cruz: San Lorenzo River Was Transformed By Early Logging In The Santa Cruz Mountains

The entrance road to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park crosses the San Lorenzo River and winds through a broad flat meadow. To Noah Finne ...

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Announces Ambitious Investment To Hire 100 Additional Faculty Over Decade, Part Of Broader Effort To Advanc ...

To advance its place as an international leader at the intersection of innovation and social justice, UC Santa Cruz announced today its ...

UC Santa Cruz: Genome Of Extinct Steller's Sea Cow Reveals Surprising Link To Human Skin Disease

Steller's sea cow was an extraordinary creature, an enormous, kelp-eating, cold-water relative of the dugong and manatees that was hunte ...

UC Santa Cruz: White House Honors Astronomer Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz With Mentoring Award

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has been honored by the White House with a Presidential A ...

UC Santa Cruz: Computer Scientist Lindsey Kuper Wins NSF CAREER Award

Lindsey Kuper, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won a Faculty Ea ...

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Foundation Votes To Provide Additional One-Time Endowment Payout To Support Student Scholarships, Fellowships 

Hundreds of continuing and incoming UC Santa Cruz students will benefit from additional financial support from scholarships and fellowsh ...

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Tops Ranking Of Women In Leadership At R1 Universities

When it comes to women leading universities, UC Santa Cruz is first in the nation for racial and gender diversity in leadership.