University News & Events

• January 26, 2022

  Two UCSC professors elected 2021 AAAS Fellows

  Biologist Suzanne Alonzo and Earth scientist James Zachos have been awarded the distinction of AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• January 26, 2022

  History professor earns 2021 National Jewish Book Award for look at New York Hasidic Jewish community

  Nathaniel Deutsch was recently announced as a winner of a 2021 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies for his recently-published work, A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg. He shares the award with his co-author Michael Casper. 

• January 25, 2022

  The struggle to protect voting rights must go on. Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement can help

  Distinguished professor emeritus John Brown Childs shares his opinion on the U.S. Senate's recent blockage of voting rights legislation and reflects on lessons he learned during the Civil Rights Movement that may help voting rights activists today.

• January 25, 2022

  Ten new picnic tables customed designed, handcrafted, and installed on campus

  It was a rush order, no question about it. In early September, Chancellor Cynthia Larive asked Physical Plant, Development and Operations to install 10 picnic tables on the main residential campus by the opening of fall quarter. Campus carpenters decided to do-it-themselves.

• January 24, 2022

  Biochemist Carrie Partch honored by the National Academy of Sciences

  Carrie Partch, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, will be honored by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) with the 2022 NAS Award in Molecular Biology.

• January 20, 2022

  National Endowment for the Arts award to support 'Surge,' an afrofuturism festival

  Events will take place throughout the academic year, culminating in a month-long festival in May 2022 with live music concerts and dance performances.

• January 20, 2022

  Rebecca Hernandez to serve as campus's first community archivist

  Rebecca Hernandez, who previous served as the director of the American Indian Resource Center, will seek out partnerships with community organizations and leaders to support the preservation of community history, with a particular focus on reaching out to traditionally underrepresented communities.

• January 20, 2022

  Grant supports project to digitize, preserve materials at Biblioteca Amazónica

  The project will concentrate its efforts on those items within the archives that are unique to the Biblioteca Amazónica and not available elsewhere. One important inclusion will be back issues of three local newspapers — El Eco, La Razón, and El Oriente — that have never been fully digitized before.

• January 20, 2022

  UC Santa Cruz receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant to connect studies of humanities, engineering

  UC Santa Cruz will create a new Certificate in the Humanities introducing students enrolled in the Baskin School of Engineering to humanities disciplines aimed to help them better understand the social and cultural impacts of technological change.

• January 14, 2022

  Computer engineer Scott Beamer wins NSF CAREER Award

  Scott Beamer, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the NSF to support his work on verifiable computation.

• January 13, 2022

  Economics professor takes deep dive into challenges and opportunities of climate change

  The widespread impacts of climate change raise urgent and critical questions.

• January 13, 2022

  Appetite for entrepreneurship leads alum to launch successful meal-prep business

  Economics alumnus Andy Sartori, a Sacramento Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree, helps people eat with purpose.

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