The multicolored tanager, a small bird that lives only in the mountains of Colombia, is a draw for birdwatchers. Deep in a forest in the Andes, high atop a tall tree, there’s a quick, colorful flash ...

With the summer rapidly drawing to an end, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) has said a fond farewell to its 2026 cohort of eleven Santa Cruz County high schoolers who participated in Art ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers lead analysis of ancient DNA that yields a genomic roadmap for the restoration of the continent’s largest land mammal, pushed nearly to extinction because of past human activ ...

In the United States, immigration status has long created hierarchies within our society, where some can participate fully in public life, while others are excluded. These divisions have serious ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote. Twenty-five ...

An electric vehicle plugged in at a public fast-charge station in Pacific Grove, Calif. Photo: Allison Arteaga Soergel As it turns out, from a carbon emissions standpoint, you’d be better off sending ...

With nearly $3 million in new grant funding, the CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is launching a new program called Drones ...

An adult male northern elephant seal attempts to mate with an adult female near the end of the breeding season at Año Nuevo State Park in California. (Frans Lanting for Beltran Lab-UC Santa Cruz-NMFS ...

UC Santa Cruz deepens industry engagement to underscore its vital role in contributing basic research and tomorrow’s talent, convening its first international RNA biotech conference on August 18 ...

Girls in Engineering participants visit a UC Santa Cruz lab. For many young students, a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can feel like a distant possibility, ...

As part of its commitment to long-term sustainability and environmental resilience, UC Santa Cruz has adapted how campus buildings and infrastructure are designed. In collaboration with the University ...