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2018 Gifts and Grants

November 27, 2018
UC Santa Cruz receives significant Hunter S. Thompson collection
An 800-volume collection of works by famed author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson has been donated to Special Collections & Archives at UC Santa Cruz.
October 29, 2018
$9.3 million education grant to support Pajaro Valley students in college journey
The grant, to the UC Santa Cruz Educational Partnership Center (EPC), will serve 1,630 underrepresented students in the Pajaro Valley beginning in their sixth and seventh grades and on through their first year of college.
October 22, 2018
NIH grant funds development of a wayfinding app for the blind
Engineer Roberto Manduchi develops assistive technologies for people with disabilities.
October 17, 2018
UC Santa Cruz receives Mellon Foundation humanities grant to explore Earth Futures
Catastrophic environmental breakdown, mass species extinction, financial collapse, racist separatism, global nuclear war…there is much speculation these days that we are living at the end of democracy, liberalism, capitalism, a cool planet, and civilization as we know it...
October 05, 2018
Local group funds four UC Santa Cruz cancer researchers
The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group is continuing its support for cancer research at UC Santa Cruz with new grants.
October 02, 2018
ARCS Foundation scholarships support UCSC graduate students
Thirteen UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $141,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation.
October 01, 2018
NSF grant funds program to increase diversity in physics and astronomy
The Cal-Bridge program has received a $5 million grant to support Ph.D. pathways at 24 campuses.
September 13, 2018
Quantum information science on the verge of a technological revolution
Theorist Yuan Ping is developing computational methods to guide the design of new materials for quantum computing and other quantum information technologies.
September 11, 2018
Data science researchers to tackle privacy challenges in genomics
Computer scientist Abhradeep Guha Thakurta has won NSF funding to investigate ways to protect the privacy of individuals while allowing access to large genomic data sets.
September 10, 2018
NSF funds powerful new supercomputer for UC Santa Cruz researchers
The new high-performance computer system will support research in theoretical astrophysics, climate science, materials science, and other fields.
September 05, 2018
UC Santa Cruz helps address massive data demands from Large Hadron Collider as part of $25 million NSF project
Computer scientist Carlos Maltzahn will work with Princeton University on an NSF-funded project to establish the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics.
August 29, 2018
Gifts to UC Santa Cruz fund new presidential chair for diversity in astronomy
UCSC astronomer Sandra Faber and her husband made the lead gift to establish an endowed chair named in honor of Faber's mentor, distinguished astronomer Vera Rubin.
August 27, 2018
Film professor Jennifer Taylor wins grant from the SFFILM 2018 Documentary Film Fund
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of film and digital media Jennifer Maytorena Taylor has received a grant from the SFFILM Documentary Film Fund to support her latest project, "The Gut."
August 09, 2018
UC Santa Cruz awarded two NEH grants for Humanities projects
UC Santa Cruz has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support humanities projects in the Literature Department.
August 06, 2018
Coastal Science and Policy graduate program welcomes first cohort of students
The new graduate program in Coastal Science and Policy at UC Santa Cruz will welcome its first cohort of students in fall 2018.
July 30, 2018
Two UCSC graduate students win HHMI Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study
The Gilliam Fellowships support exceptional graduate students who are committed to increasing diversity among scientific leaders.
July 19, 2018
UC Santa Cruz receives grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded a $57,000 grant to the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
July 05, 2018
Computer engineer Chen Qian wins NSF CAREER Award
NSF funding supports Qian's research on new memory-efficient and ultra-fast network algorithms and protocols.
June 25, 2018
Astronomer Alexie Leauthaud wins DOE Early Career Award
The award from DOE's Early Career Research Program supports Leauthaud's research on dark energy.
June 22, 2018
Climate scientist Nicole Feldl wins NSF CAREER Award
NSF grant includes funding for climate research and for a cross-disciplinary environmental game project for students to develop a learning game about climate science.
June 20, 2018
Corporate-sponsored projects give engineering students valuable experience
UC Santa Cruz engineering students presented their senior design projects to mentors and faculty on Tuesday, June 5.
June 14, 2018
Biomolecular engineer Angela Brooks named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
Brooks will receive a $300,000 award over four years to support her research on how mutations associated with cancer cause changes in gene expression.
June 11, 2018
Help from the wizarding world
A gift from a Harry Potter–themed virtual running club enables a UC Santa Cruz professor to observe whales in Antarctica
May 23, 2018
Biologist Beth Shapiro selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Shapiro’s Paleogenomics Lab at UC Santa Cruz uses ancient DNA to study evolutionary history and the effects of environmental change on species and ecosystems.
May 17, 2018
Transfer RNA research addresses a blind spot in understanding of human genes
Biomolecular engineer Todd Lowe has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his lab's international leadership in transfer RNA research.
May 01, 2018
NIH grant supports development of a novel drug for stroke treatment
A drug discovery grant is funding the quest by UCSC chemistry professor Ted Holman to bring a new drug treatment for stroke to clinical trials.
April 30, 2018
UC Santa Cruz glaciologist leads project to study Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Earth sciences professor Slawek Tulaczyk will lead one of eight projects in a joint U.S.-U.K. research program to understand how quickly the massive Antarctic glacier could collapse.
April 23, 2018
Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy
A 'deep learning' algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at classifying real galaxies in Hubble images.
April 19, 2018
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute receives funding for Human Cell Atlas projects
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is funding 85 projects, including three at UC Santa Cruz, to support efforts to develop a comprehensive reference atlas of all cells in the human body.
March 15, 2018
NIH grant funds high-end instrument for shared biomedical research facility
UC Santa Cruz establishes a Bay Area facility in electron paramagnetic resonance with a $1.5-million grant from NIH's High-End Instrumentation program.
March 08, 2018
Grant to transform upper floor of Science and Engineering Library
A $5 million grant will kick-start the Science and Engineering Library’s transformation and name floor to honor legendary astrophysicist Sandra Faber
March 05, 2018
Campus receives Mellon Foundation grant to help create new forms of digital publication
UC Santa Cruz is the lead institution on a $100,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to help build a sustainable system for the digital publication and discovery of historical records.
March 02, 2018
Gun control advocate Gabby Giffords joins fundraiser for Gabe Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship
Former Arizona Congresswoman and gun control advocate Gabby Giffords attended a fundraising event to support the Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship.
February 13, 2018
Computer science grad student wins Better Scientific Software Fellowship
Ivo Jimenez was recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project in its inaugural class of Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellows.
February 13, 2018
State program funds lung cancer research at UC Santa Cruz
The California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program has awarded $1.8 million in grants and fellowships to UCSC biomedical researchers.
February 12, 2018
UCSC's SlugBot team chosen again to compete in Amazon's Alexa Prize Challenge
For the second year in a row, a team of computer science students has won sponsorship from Amazon to develop a "socialbot" that can converse with humans.
January 18, 2018
Elliott Campbell appointed to chair in water resources and food system sustainability
Elliott Campbell, associate professor of environmental studies, was honored as the inaugural holder of the Stephen R. Gliessman Presidential Chair in Water Resources and Food System Sustainability.
January 08, 2018
State initiative funds UCSC childhood cancer research
A $500,000 grant from the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine supports the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative at the UCSC Genomics Institute.