January 17, 2025 UCHRI grants advance Humanities research on campus . This year, UC Santa Cruz researchers are advancing cutting-edge projects that tackle critical issues such as antiracist education, environmental resilience, and the intersections of identity and power, with critical funding from the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).

Jan 31, 2025 · UCSC in the news. Los Angeles Times UC, a top recipient of federal research funding, is concerned about Trump pause on grant reviews; The Mercury News ‘Rage-giving’ bolstered migrant nonprofits through Trump’s first term. How will they fare in the next? CalMatters Why California keeps putting homes where fires burn; More

December 18, 2024 A ‘remelting’ of lunar surface adds a wrinkle to mystery of Moon’s true age. In an "idea paper" published on December 18 in Nature, UC Santa Cruz Professor Francis Nimmo and his co-authors propose a "remelting" of the Moon's surface 4.35 billion years ago due to the tidal pull of Earth causing widespread geological upheaval and intense heating.

15 hours ago · The push to decarbonize all University of California (UC) campuses is the University’s biggest challenge to achieving the climate action goals and maintaining UC’s status as a leader in climate action. The University of California, Santa Cruz has announced it will reduce fossil fuel emission by ...

Dec 15, 2023 · February 13, 2024 Life Beyond the Redwoods: Noah Whitley reflects on the value of a UCSC degree one year later . One year after graduating from UCSC, Noah Whitley works as a legislative assistant for a political consulting firm …

Jan 29, 2025 · February 04, 2025 UC Santa Cruz alumna Gillian Welch wins Grammy for Best Folk Album. UC Santa Cruz alumna Gillian Welch (Porter ’90, fine arts) alongside her musical partner David Rawlings, clinched the Best Folk Album award at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 2 for their album Woodland.

Jan 5, 2025 · Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for billions. We can look to current geopolitical and ecological events that are playing out currently to understand what we can expect in the future,” said Hannah Waterhouse, a soil and water scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

10 hours ago · UC Santa Cruz will host Teaching Week 2025 from Feb. 24 to Feb. 28, celebrating innovative and equity-minded teaching practices across campus. Organized by the Teaching & Learning Center in collaboration with the Committee on Teaching, the weeklong series of events will spotlight transformative learning experiences and foster conversations on …

13 hours ago · Doug Kellogg, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded $2.95 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study control of cell growth and size in normal cells—and how it goes wrong in cancer. The five-year grant—formally named the ...

February 04, 2025 UC Santa Cruz scientists slither into the history books with first complete genome of a banana slug. Not only is the banana slug the endearing mascot for UC Santa Cruz — making the project fitting for campus researchers — but the slugs’ unique slime was a particularly challenging undertaking for UCSC’s experts in genomics.