Longtime UC Santa Cruz lecturer and alumnus Mike Rotkin passed away earlier this month. He leaves behind an esteemed legacy ...

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has named University of California, Santa Cruz, Professor Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz ...

Undergraduate Elyse Venerable won the Chancellor's Award and Dean's Award for her research using strontium isotope analysis ...

Undergraduate Chelsey Tien won the Dean’s Award for her psychology research that explored the role parents play in helping ...

On June 23, the first images from the much-anticipated Vera C. Rubin Observatory atop Chile’s Cerro Pachón will be shown to ...

Research from UC Santa Cruz human-computer interactions scholars is revealing how online habits translate into offline ...

New study gives conservationists a simpler, general approach for predicting an ecosystem’s tipping point and what comes next ...

With numerous organizational leadership experiences under his belt, UCSC student Saúl Ordaz is ready to tackle life beyond the redwoods ...

26 students were recognized with awards from the Social Sciences Division and Division of Undergraduate Education.

Alumnus William "Monty" Graham, the new director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center—one of the nation's leading hubs for environmental science—brings deep expertise in coastal ecological ...

Professor Phillip Hammack Associate Professor Adriana Manago. A new paper summarizing decades of research demonstrates how social media has supported an explosion of diversity in gender and sexuality ...

In two recent papers, an international team led by UC Santa Cruz scientists describe the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell. The organelle is the fourth example in history ...