University News & Events

• November 18, 2024

  Student team wins ‘Excellence in Safety’ award at second Farm Robotics Challenge

  A team of engineering students were recognized with the “Excellence in Safety” award at the second-annual Farm Robotics Challenge

• November 18, 2024

  Imperial Valley’s lithium reserves could power a global energy transition. But will they also fuel local economies?

  Professor Chris Benner's latest book with coauthor Manuel Pastor, a professor at the University of Southern California, explores economic and environmental possibilities for a lithium boom in California's Imperial Valley.

• November 15, 2024

  How optogenetics can put the brakes on epilepsy seizures

  In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons.

• November 15, 2024

  UC Santa Cruz Music Department is gearing up for a holidays filled with music

  One of the most important aspects of a music education is the ability to perform. At the University of California, Santa Cruz the Music Department arranges numerous events every quarter to make sure students have opportunities to show their skills and gain valuable experience on stage.

• November 15, 2024

  Bringing Broadway to Santa Cruz with ‘Into the Woods’

  Sheila Willey, a lecturer in voice and opera in the Music department, is bringing Broadway to Santa Cruz. Into the Woods is a three-time, Tony Award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical, and it’s coming to campus. This 75-minute production will feature lead staff accompanist Luke Shepherd along with a cast of students.

• November 15, 2024

  Traditional Mayan collaboration practices show both changes and resilience after decades of globalization

  UC Santa Cruz psychologist Barbara Rogoff has been working with Mayan communities in Guatemala for decades to document traditional collaboration and learning practices. Her latest research follows up on an initial study from 30 years ago to see how practices have shifted or persisted over time within families.

• November 14, 2024

  UC Santa Cruz announces a new 2,400-acre UC Reserve after Regents approval

  The 2,400-acre oak-studded grassland property in San Benito County, which has served as a cattle ranch for most of the last 100 years, becomes the 42nd reserve within the University of California’s Natural Reserve System (NRS) and the seventh UC Santa Cruz reserve.

• November 14, 2024

  Creating enchantment in Senegal

  UC Santa Cruz Humanities Professor Gina Athena Ulysse was invited to participate as a featured artist for the prestigious Dakar Biennale (Dak'Art), which the New York Times called “Africa’s hottest art event” and “Africa’s most prominent cultural gathering.”

• November 14, 2024

  Redefining philanthropy: Alumna Carmen Rojas drives change

  Alumna Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation and is a leader in the fight for racial, economic, and social justice.

• November 13, 2024

  $7.5 million awarded to UC Santa Cruz to support leadership in salmon-recovery science

  UC Santa Cruz has received nearly $7.5 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to vault scientific research on imperiled Pacific salmon populations into one of the nation’s most powerful collaborations between the agency and academia to save the vital species.

• November 13, 2024

  Computer engineering student builds cybersecurity solutions for Joby Aviation

  UC Santa Cruz Computer Engineering student Shipra Ithal participated in an internship at Joby Aviation via the CITRIS Workforce Innovation Program

• November 13, 2024

  Team discovers ultra-massive galaxies in early Universe that challenge standard cosmology

  An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky Way—already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. The discovery is surprising because it indicates that the formation of stars in the early Universe was far more efficient than previously thought, challenging current models of galaxy formation.

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