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By Tim Stephens Rae Taylor-Burns, left; Ann Beulke, right. California Sea Grant has awarded funding to two UC Santa Cruz graduate students for research proje...

Balancing privacy and the value of data in the COVID-19 pandemic By Jennifer McNulty Kristian López Vargas couldn't stand by as the coronavirus threatened hi...

From developing diagnostic tests to conducting surveys of infection prevalence, campus researchers are doing what they can in response to the COVID-19 pandem...

July 23, 2019 By Jennifer McNulty A new paper that challenges widely held ideas about autism has attracted comments from more than 30 scholars across the dis...

July 17, 2019 By Tim Stephens The Breakthrough Listen initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the universe will collaborate with the VERITAS Collabor...

July 17, 2019 By Jennifer McNulty Giving credence to the saying, "While the cat's away, the mice will play," a new study indicates that pumas and medium-size...

November 23, 2018 By Aylin Woodward Five million years ago, the Ethiopian savanna boasted some three types of giraffe, two rhinos, one hippo, and four elepha...

November 15, 2018 By Lisa Renner As a deaf person, Chrissy Marshall hates it when people react to hearing loss with pity. The 19-year-old UC Santa Cruz film ...

November 15, 2018 By Ray Villard, STScI Astronomers may have finally uncovered the long-sought progenitor to a unique type of exploding star by sifting throu...

September 10, 2018 By Tim Stephens A $1.547 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a powerful new supercomputer for UC Santa Cruz resea...

September 19, 2018 By Jennifer McNulty The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, is an ongoing tragedy. Yet just down the highway from UC Santa Cruz, numerous com...

September 10, 2018 By Scott Hernandez-Jason Boosted by its success in helping students achieve social mobility, UC Santa Cruz jumped this year to among the ...

August 06, 2018 By Tim Stephens A new graduate program in Coastal Science and Policy at UC Santa Cruz will welcome its first cohort of students in fall 2018....

Strong graduate programs enhance undergraduate education in multiple ways, said Kletzer, who sees them as complementary rather than competing interests. July...

The graduate student reflects on his research interests in Education, his path to graduate school, and plans for the future. Alfredo Reyes is a second year P...

Astronomy student Jennifer Burt helped write software that turned a powerful telescope at Lick Observatory into the first automated planet finder in the worl...