As the recipient of the Alumni Association Scholarship and Eric Thomas Memorial Award, Rebecca Oregel reflects on how that ...

Stan Woosley has been a professor in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz since 1975 and chaired the department from 1989 to 2003. UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Stan Woosley has ...

The partnership, established as a Space Act agreement, builds on a collaboration between campus and the government research ...

Gina Dent, Professor of Humanities and Faculty Director of the Institute of the Arts & Sciences, speaks to students at an exhibit at the IAS. Humanities students at UC Santa Cruz are finding new ways ...

History Professor Gregory O'Malley will read from his new book, The Escapes Of David George, at Bookshop Santa Cruz on Feb.2 David George was born enslaved in Virginia in 1742, but he never gave up on ...

Five UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been selected for the University of California’s Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards. The inaugural program supports the scholarship and creative ...

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 ...

A Hawai'i 'Amakihi, one of just 15 surviving bird species in the Hawaiian honeycreeper family, is a frequent reservoir for avian malaria. Originally, more than 50 distinct species of Hawaiian ...

One in every 10 people worldwide is impacted by a rare genetic disease but about 50% of them remain undiagnosed despite rapid increases in genetic technology and testing. Even when a person does have ...

In November, The Lancet, one of the world’s most esteemed medical journals, launched a new monthly series of case studies that goes beyond clinical diagnoses to illuminate the social and cultural ...