UC Santa Cruz: Sharon Valle Rodriguez

Relocating to New York for her senior year at UC Santa Cruz because of the pandemic wasn't exactly an unprecedented move for Sharon Vall ...

UC Santa Cruz: Nicholas Hidy

It's tough being a performing arts major when all the performing arts spaces are shut down.

UC Santa Cruz: Biologist Roxanne Beltran Wins Funding From Beckman Young Investigator Program

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has awarded a $600,000 grant to Roxanne Beltran, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary ...

UC Santa Cruz: Dead Zones Formed Repeatedly In North Pacific During Warm Climates, Study Finds

An analysis of sediment cores from the Bering Sea has revealed a recurring relationship between warmer climates and abrupt episodes of l ...

UC Santa Cruz: Feminist Studies Ph.D. Student Receives Institute For Citizens & Scholars Fellowship

Claire Urbanski, a Ph.D. candidate in feminist studies, has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Insti ...

UC Santa Cruz: Social Sciences Division Celebrates Outstanding Students

As spring quarter draws to a close, the Division of Social Sciences is recognizing excellence in scholarship and research through its an ...

UC Santa Cruz: Professor Karen Holl Wins MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair To Support Work On Natural Climate Solutions

This week, campus leadership awarded Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl the MacArthur Foundation Chair at UC Santa Cruz. This fi ...

UC Santa Cruz: Clinic Director Had To Adapt To COVID Challenges

Starting a new job and moving to a new area is hard no matter what, but how about trying that with a broken foot in the middle of a pand ...

UC Santa Cruz: Exhibition Explores The Art Of Creating Comfort In A Year Of Unexpected Hardship And Isolation

Twelve of UCSC's most promising artists will have their work on display in the 35th annual Irwin Scholarship exhibition, beginning June ...

Saluting The Class Of 2021: Karely Vasquez Of Watsonville High School

Watsonville Patch is celebrating this year's seniors for their accomplishments.

UC Santa Cruz: Growing Heritage And Healing Through Traditional Asian Vegetables

A group of faculty, staff, and alumni from UC Santa Cruz are drawing upon and strengthening their cultural heritage and connection to As ...

UC Santa Cruz: Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelic Analog Reverses Effects Of Stress In Mouse Study

A novel compound similar in structure to the psychedelic drug ibogaine, but lacking its toxic and hallucinogenic effects, has been found ...

UC Santa Cruz: ‘We Are What We Eat': Alice Waters To Celebrate New Book In Live Event With Michael Pollan 

On June 1, Penguin Random House will publish We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto, a new book by renowned chef and food activist Al ...

UC Santa Cruz: UC Collaboration Launches First Online Course In The Punjabi Language

The first online Punjabi language course for University of California students that launched earlier this year is a collaboration of sev ...

UC Santa Cruz: A Shot In The Arm

This story is part of UC Santa Cruz's vaccination advocacy campaign, Arm in Arm, which is aimed at communicating to our campus community ...

UC Santa Cruz: Found In Translation

The Alumni Achievement Award ceremony, a virtual celebration of Jupiter and her work, will be Tuesday, May 25, from 5:30–7 p.m.

UC Santa Cruz: Study Shows Which North American Mammals Live Most Successfully Alongside People

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz led a team of researchers from 30 institutions across North America in analyzing data from 3,212 camera trap ...

UC Santa Cruz: Astronomers Track Down Fast Radio Bursts To Galaxies' Spiral Arms

A new study led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz has traced the locations of five brief, powerful radio blasts to the spiral arms of five ...

UC Santa Cruz: Survival Of Migrating Juvenile Salmon Depends On Stream Flow Thresholds

Juvenile salmon migrating to the sea in the Sacramento River face a gauntlet of hazards in an environment drastically modified by humans ...

UC Santa Cruz: Legendary Oceanography Professor Has Made Sea Changes In Students' Lives

The celebrated UC Santa Cruz oceanography professor Gary Griggs made a vow this spring, and he plans to stick with it.

UC Santa Cruz: Missing The Middle: The Importance Of Regional-Scale Field Research

Hundreds of biological field stations exist across the globe, supporting highly local, single-site projects as well as endeavors spannin ...

UC Santa Cruz: Science To The People

When alumnus George Kraw (Cowell '71, history and Russian literature) launched his popular Kraw Lecture Series on Science and Technology ...

UC Santa Cruz: A Day To Baskin The Glory

Long before she started designing robots and high-tech "smart jackets" at UC Santa Cruz, Vaishnavi Dornadula (College Nine '21, robotics ...

Congratulations, Watsonville High School Grad Karla Avila

Before this year's seniors head on to that next step in their lives, we want to take a moment to let their stars shine here on Patch.

UC Santa Cruz: Climate Change Sends Tropical Species Racing To Higher Elevations While Temperate Counterparts Lag Behind

A team of scientists from the University of British Columbia, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Miami publ ...

UC Santa Cruz: Ancient Horse DNA Reveals Gene Flow Between Eurasian And North American Horses

A new study of ancient DNA from horse fossils found in North America and Eurasia shows that horse populations on the two continents rema ...

Congratulations, Watsonville High School Grad Alexsia Valdez

Before this year's seniors head on to that next step in their lives, we want to take a moment to let their stars shine here on Patch.

Congratulations, Sequoia High School Grad Mark Anthony Pimentel

Watsonville Patch is celebrating this year's seniors for their accomplishments.

Recall Campaign Of Embattled PVUSD Trustee Clears Initial Hurdle

Georgia Acosta was given notice of a campaign to recall her at Wednesday's school board meeting. Here's what's coming next in the campaign.

Celebrate Your 2021 Graduate On Watsonville Patch

Students have overcome many obstacles the past year. Celebrate your graduate on Watsonville Patch.

UC Santa Cruz: Ultrasensitive Antigen Test Detects SARS-CoV-2 And Influenza Viruses

Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a novel chip-based antigen test that can provide ultrasensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 and ...

UC Santa Cruz: Creating A Soundtrack And Adding A Heartbeat To The Struggle For Prison Abolition

"Music for Abolition" is the name of a music video program that three-time Grammy-award winning musician Terri Lyne Carrington has curat ...

UC Santa Cruz: 'The Only Way Society Gets To Reopen Safely Is If We Are All Vaccinated'

See the latest announcement from UC Santa Cruz.

UC Santa Cruz: Preserving The Legacy Of Watsonville's First Filipino Immigrants

UC Santa Cruz faculty and student researchers from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions are partnering with leaders of Wa ...

UC Santa Cruz: Alumni Weekend Was A Virtual Smorgasbord For Nostalgic Banana Slugs

Banana Slugs showed off their creativity and adaptability during last week's all-virtual Alumni Week, a celebration that made the most o ...

UC Santa Cruz: Physical And Biological Sciences Division Honors Three Prominent Alumni

Mathematician Ian Walton, conservation scientist Lisa Dabek, and theoretical chemist James Skinner are being honored by the UC Santa Cru ...

UC Santa Cruz: 2021-22 Dickson Emeritus Awards Support Faculty Research In History, Literature, And Psychology

Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been honored with emeriti professorships for the 2021–22 academic year.

Watsonville Area Completion Rates For College Aid Applications

See how college aid applications changed for Watsonville area high schools.

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz And United Way Partner To Empower Youth Through Research In Local Communities

A new three-year, $650,000 grant will link UC Santa Cruz with the United Way of Santa Cruz County's Youth Action Network to support yout ...

Embattled PVUSD Trustee Is Now Subject Of Recall Campaign

Georgia Acosta faced mounting calls to resign after apparently trying to oust Superintendent Michelle Rodriguez without board approval.