UC Santa Cruz: Talk To Focus On Subpar Treatment Of Native Women With Tuberculosis

A timely inquiry into the treatment of Native women in the Bay Area suffering from tuberculosis in the early 20th century will be the su ...

UC Santa Cruz: UCSC Astronomers Help Shape Influential Report On National Priorities For Their Field

Every ten years, a committee of U.S. astronomers produces a Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, presenting funding agencies wi ...

UC Santa Cruz: Researchers Find Whales Eat More Than Expected

From 1910 to 1970, humans killed an estimated 1.5 million baleen whales in the frigid water encircling Antarctica. From the perspective ...

UC Santa Cruz: Engineer David Lee Wins Funding For Public Interest Technology Program

David Lee, assistant professor of computational media at UC Santa Cruz, has received funding through the Public Interest Technology Univ ...

UC Santa Cruz: Biologist Upasna Sharma Wins $1.18 Million Grant From Templeton Foundation

Upasna Sharma, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has received a $1.18 million grant fr ...

UC Santa Cruz: Talent Search Grant Extension To Help More East San Jose Teens Achieve College Dreams

Hundreds of low-income teens in East San Jose will continue to receive extra help to achieve their college dreams after the federal gove ...

See How PVUSD Performed In Ranking Of CA Classrooms

Data analysis company Niche ranked schools across the Bay Area and nation. Here's how Watsonville area schools stacked up.

UC Santa Cruz:  A New Era For College Ten Begins As It Transitions To John R. Lewis College

See the latest announcement from UC Santa Cruz.

UC Santa Cruz: How One Tiny Island Influenced The World

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz: Survivor Salmon That Withstand Drought And Ocean Warming Provide A Lifeline For California Chinook

In drought years and when marine heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, late-migrating juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon of California's Ce ...

UC Santa Cruz: Ecologist Erika Zavaleta Named ESA Excellence In Ecology Scholar

Erika Zavaleta, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been selected by the Ecological Society of America ( ...

UC Santa Cruz: Data-Driven Animations Of Marine Mammals Combine Biology, Art, And Computation

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz: As Launch Of James Webb Space Telescope Nears, Astronomers Anticipate New Era Of Discoveries

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled to launch December 18 from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, is the largest, ...

UC Santa Cruz: Reclaiming Coast Miwok History Through Indigenous Interpretations Of Archeology

In his latest book, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Tsim Schneider examines the history of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo peoples in ...

UC Santa Cruz: Seagrass Restoration Study Shows Rapid Recovery Of Ecosystem Functions

As the dominant seagrass species on the U.S. West Coast, eelgrass supports a wide range of ecosystem services and functions, making its ...

UC Santa Cruz: In Memory: Yolanda Dybdahl

Yolanda Addeman Dybdahl, a long-time volunteer leader in Santa Cruz County institutions and a former UC Santa Cruz Foundation trustee, d ...

UC Santa Cruz: Astronomers Witnessed The Spectacular Death Of A Star As It Happened

Unprecedented observations of a nearby supernova in 2020 have given astronomers an extraordinarily detailed look at the explosion of a m ...

UC Santa Cruz: New Book Shares Lessons From History On The Case For Senate Reform

In his new book, Professor of Politics Daniel Wirls calls for reform of the United States Senate by arguing that features like the filib ...

UC Santa Cruz: Biologist Beth Shapiro's New Book Explores How Humans Have Shaped Life On Earth

In her new book, UC Santa Cruz biologist Beth Shapiro argues that while gene-editing technology is giving humans remarkable new powers, ...

UC Santa Cruz: Social Sciences Division Convenes For Awards Ceremony

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz: Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz Awarded American Physical Society's Nicholson Medal

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has been selected to receive the American Physical Societ ...

Watsonville Prep School Opens Downtown

The charter school opened in the former Gottschalks building and seeks to serve the most vulnerable students. What to know.

UC Santa Cruz: Biologist Roxanne Beltran Wins Prestigious Packard Fellowship

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering to Roxanne Beltran, assistant profe ...

UC Santa Cruz: Library Invited To Join Prestigious Association Of Research Libraries

The University Library at UC Santa Cruz has accepted an invitation to join the Association of Research Libraries, effective January 1, 2 ...

UC Santa Cruz: College Scholars Program Exposes Students To Research Opportunities

Micah Braly knew when he enrolled at UC Santa Cruz that he wanted to get involved in research. But he didn't know how.

UC Santa Cruz: Reimagining Our Economy For The Benefit Of All

Faculty members at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the University of Southern California (USC) released a new book, Solidarity Economics: Why M ...

UC Santa Cruz: AAUW Awards Fellowships To Three Scholars At UC Santa Cruz

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has awarded 2021-22 American Fellowships to three scholars at UC Santa Cruz who will ...

UC Santa Cruz: Arts Convocation Spotlights Excellence And Inclusion

Renowned conductor Kent Nagano (Porter '74, music, sociology) made an impassioned defense of the arts last week after receiving the firs ...

UC Santa Cruz: Astrophysicists Explain The Origin Of Unusually Heavy Neutron Star Binaries

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz: Scientists Assemble A Biological Clock In A Test Tube To Study How It Works

Daily cycles in virtually every aspect of our physiology are driven by biological clocks (also called circadian clocks) in our cells. Th ...

UC Santa Cruz: Mellon Foundation Award To Support UC Santa Cruz's ‘Visualizing Abolition' Initiative

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1,977,000 grant to support Visualizing Abolition, the nation's most ambitious and sustain ...

UC Santa Cruz: Rising Together For Justice And Racial Equity

Last spring, George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis led to a wave of activism around the world, with protests against police violence and ...

UC Santa Cruz: Graduate Student Studying New Orleans' Latin American Connections

When you think of North American cities with the strongest connections to Latin America, you probably think of Miami or Los Angeles.

UC Santa Cruz: Environmental Governance Expert Sikina Jinnah Appointed To Harvard University's SCoPEx Advisory Committee

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Sikina Jinnah was recently appointed to an independent advisory committee that will make re ...

UC Santa Cruz: Stem Cell Agency Funds Research Training Program At UC Santa Cruz

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded a $4.9 million grant to UC Santa Cruz for a CIRM Training Program ...

UC Santa Cruz: Wild, Wild Life

Wildlife conservation photographer Sebastian Kennerknecht and a biologist colleague were setting up a camera in Uganda when both heard t ...

UC Santa Cruz: NIH Funds Center For Live Cell Genomics At UC Santa Cruz

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 ...

UC Santa Cruz: In Memoriam: David Kaun

Professor Emeritus of Economics David Kaun, a pioneer member of the UC Santa Cruz faculty, passed away on September 9 at the age of 88. ...

UC Santa Cruz: Mellon Foundation Grant Will Support National Initiative In Latinx Studies

Through a three-year, $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, UC Santa Cruz will be part of a national initiative in Lati ...

UC Santa Cruz: Stellar New Faculty Strengthen Campus Research, Teaching

To build on existing research strength and branch into new areas of inquiry, UC Santa Cruz has recruited 40 new tenure-track faculty mem ...