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 ...

Daniela Amodei graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2009. Dolores Huerta is a longtime supporter of UC Santa Cruz and continues to collaborate with the university through the Dolores Huerta Foundation.

Since graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Jessica Lum (Rachel Carson '09, environmental studies and economics) has built a career ...

UC Presidential Chair Magy Seif El-Nasr shares insights on how AI has shaped academic publishing, and her observations on an ...

The blue oak, an iconic tree found only in California and seen across the state’s inland ranges and hills, is far more vulnerable to climate change than is reflected by its current status on the ...

A model of the a-Heal wearable device. As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A wearable device called “a-Heal,” ...

One of the biggest mysteries of evolution is how species first developed complex vision. Jellyfish are helping scientists solve this puzzle, as the group has independently evolved eyes at least nine ...

of desire, de Lauretis taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from the mid-1980s until her retirement in 2008 as Distinguished Professor Emerita.

Athletics & Recreation has joined the Division of Student Affairs and Success. This transition, effective Aug. 11, creates new opportunities to strengthen the student experience by aligning A&R’s ...

micha cárdenas, a professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, used art to sound the warning about global climate tipping points in a high-profile artwork The Probability Engine: Atlantic Overturning.

Ella Ferraz, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, is working on a project to understand how fungal networks communicate through electrical signals after wildfires that just received seed funding from ...