From seismic surveys and Navy sonar to fisheries and shipping, many human activities in the ocean environment cause short-term changes i ...
A major figure in Chicano literature, Sandra Cisneros is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street, a coming of age stor ...
Almost half of California is currently enduring an "exceptional" drought, the most severe category established by the U.S. Drought Monit ...
UC Santa Cruz theater arts alumna Ashley Nicole Black is on a roll.
Shiva Abbaszadeh, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a major grant from the Depar ...
Nicholas St. Fleur, a 2014 graduate of UCSC's Science Communication Program, has received the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award from the ...
UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus of Sociology Hardy T. Frye passed away at his home in Berkeley on June 16 at the age of 82. He will be ...
A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own ...
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Al ...
Michael Luttrell, this year's Outstanding Staff Award winner, worked hard to keep the campus safe during a chaotic year of pandemic fear ...
UC Santa Cruz was awarded grants from the University of California to support two collaborative multi-campus projects for advancing facu ...
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Roxanna Villalobos recently won a national dissertation scholarship award from Sociologists for Women in ...
Coastal marshes are vulnerable to erosion caused by rising seas, pounding waves, and tidal flows. In Elkhorn Slough, these vulnerabiliti ...
Academic departments in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology are increasingly aware of the need to address longstanding barriers ...
UC Santa Cruz is leading a novel study of the aging brain in collaboration with researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Fund ...
Jeremy Sanford, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has received major funding from the National C ...
Coastal Science and Policy Program master's student Diana Fu recently won a Switzer Foundation fellowship to support her work in advanci ...
The study, published in Nature Sustainability, combines climate science, ecological modeling, and economic data.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Founding Provost of Oakes College J. Herman Blake will receive the Distinguished Career Award for th ...
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Camilla Hawthorne coedited a first-of-its-kind new book called The ...
UC Santa Cruz assistant film and digital media professor Susana Ruiz has received a 2021 Digital Extension Grant of $150,000 from The Am ...
When Izzy Connor (Crown '25, astrophysics) steps onto the carpet at the Tokyo Olympics on August 7, it will be a milestone moment for th ...
UC Santa Cruz anticipates welcoming about 6,100 new Banana Slugs this fall, concluding an admissions cycle that began with record applic ...
Associate professor of history Catherine Jones has been honored with the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in ...
Diversity among graduate student teaching assistants (TAs) may be among the most essential factors in retaining underrepresented minorit ...
An interdisciplinary group of leading UC Santa Cruz scholars have released a new book called Precarity & Belonging that culminates more ...
A $1.9 million High-End Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will expedite research at the Chemical Screen ...
Many exoplanets have opaque atmospheres, obscured by clouds or hazes that make it hard for astronomers to characterize their chemical co ...
For the second year in a row, UC Santa Cruz's Team Athena has advanced to the finals of the Amazon Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge ...
As tectonic plates slip past each other, the rivers that cross fault lines change shape. The shifting ground stretches the river channel ...
After an extensive search, the UC Santa Cruz Seymour Marine Discovery Center has chosen Jonathan Andres Hicken to be its new executive d ...
The University Library has announced the establishment of a new Community Archiving Program that will build on the foundation of its dec ...
Researchers from UC Santa Cruz's ecological aquaculture lab won a three-year, $1 million grant from the Agriculture and Food Research In ...
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Kai Zhu recently won $732,127 in funding through a five-year grant from the National Scienc ...
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The Simons Foundation has appointed Jonathan Fortney, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, as a Simons Investigator ...
Mars Express, a spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, is the second longest surviving continually active spacecraft ...
June is for celebrating LGBT stories and experiences, but one woman whose scholarship focuses on the experiences of Black queer individu ...
Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, accord ...
New research from the University of California, Santa Cruz shows how regional shelter-in-place orders during the coronavirus pandemic em ...