University News & Events

• May 26, 2022

  Marcella Gomez appointed as the Baskin School of Engineering’s inaugural Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  Marcella Gomez has been appointed as the Baskin School of Engineering’s inaugural Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and will focus on student success and recruitment and retention of historically underrepresented groups in STEM.

• May 25, 2022

  Sociology doctoral candidate wins national fellowship for research on travel programs that teach youth about the African diaspora

  Theresa Hice-Fromille was one of five top scholars selected nationwide for the American Sociological Association’s 2022-2023 Minority Fellowship program. Funding from this and other recent awards will support her dissertation research on travel abroad programs led by Black women that teach youth about the African diaspora.

• May 24, 2022

  Student Union Assembly to host budget forum for campus community on Thursday, May 26

  Student Union Assembly (SUA) will host a university budget forum Thursday, May 26. Campus leaders will answer questions about the budget, resource allocation, and the fiscal decision making process.

• May 24, 2022

  Fellowships support graduate students studying queer movies, Mau Mau Uprising

  Raed El Rafaei is examining queer movies made by artists from Lebanon and the diaspora, and Christian David Alvarado is investigating how the Mau Mau Uprising, which ran through the 1950s in Kenya, fits in with the larger processes of decolonization in Africa.

• May 23, 2022

  A special outdoor production of The Fairy Queen celebrates the return of fully-staged, live opera at UC Santa Cruz

  The UC Santa Cruz Music Department presents Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in a very special outdoor production to celebrate the return of fully-staged, live opera at UCSC on May 27 and 28, 2022.

• May 23, 2022

  Karen Miga Named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022

  Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, was named one of the 100 most influential people of 2022 by TIME. The honor was announced on May 23.

• May 19, 2022

  Invaluable connections through alumni networks: How three slugs came together to help one another

  With the help of UCSC alumni Marcia Wall (Stevenson ‘92, English and American literature) and Frank Marquardt (Stevenson ’92, American studies), alumna Morgan Jones (Stevenson ’04, linguistics and cognitive science) was able to land her dream job in UX design.

• May 19, 2022

  Politics doctoral candidate wins Newcombe Fellowship for research on women’s testimony against sexual violence

  Natali Levin-Schwartz is one of 22 winners of a national fellowship award for scholars working on ethical or religious issues. Her dissertation research focuses on how women resist and organize against sexual violence and the role that testimony plays in that process.

• May 18, 2022

  Stories of UCSC rugby: Leslie Riehl and Pam Krone, the first women on the team

  Alumni Leslie Riehl (Cowell ’78, Mathematics) and Pam Krone (Cowell ’75) were the only women on UCSC’s rugby club in 1974, making their stand as women in the sport years before the women’s rugby club formed in 1979.

• May 18, 2022

  Instrumentation grant will establish UCSC hybrid robotic systems experimental testbed

  A $275K instrumentation funding award from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program will support a multi-university project to create a hybrid robotics system test environment to run verification and validation testing on autonomous systems.

• May 18, 2022

  New findings enable monitoring for harmful toxin in freshwater environments

  Researchers have identified the genes involved in biosynthesis of guanitoxin, a potent neurotoxin produced by some freshwater harmful algal blooms.

• May 18, 2022

  Sloan Foundation funds two-year pilot open source program office at UC Santa Cruz

  The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Professor Carlos Maltzahn a $695,000 two-year grant aimed at establishing an open source program office (OSPO) that will serve the entire campus community.

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