• September 22, 2020

  Giving Day 2020: Coming together to enrich the student experience

  Giving Day, a high-octane, 24-hour online event of nonstop giving, will be held on Wednesday, September 30. This playful but impactful philanthropic event will have an all-online format this year, due to COVID-related safety concerns.

• September 22, 2020

  Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney awarded 2020 Farinella Prize

  Jonathan Fortney has been awarded the 2020 Paolo Farinella Prize from the Europlanet Society for his contributions to the understanding of the structure, evolution, and atmospheric dynamics of giant planets.

• September 21, 2020

  UC Santa Cruz alumna Maya Rudolph wins two Emmy Awards

  Last night, UC Santa Cruz alumna Maya Rudolph picked up her second Emmy of the week for her impression of California senator and Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live

• September 16, 2020

  The global land rush

  In her new book, 'Fields of Gold, Financing the Global Land Rush,' Madeleine Fairbairn looks at forces and players that have transformed farmland into a novel financial asset class.

• September 16, 2020

  New federal funding supports student success, equity

  Five years of federal funding from the Title V Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Program will support a new project, "Graduating and Advancing New American Scholars (GANAS) - Career Pathways."

• September 15, 2020

  2020 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture to feature visionary author Margaret Atwood 

  Award-winning poet, novelist and essayist Margaret Atwood will be featured in conversation with UCSC alumna Kate Schatz, the New York Times bestselling author of "Rad American Women A-Z," as part of the Humanities Division’s annual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series.

• September 15, 2020

  UCSC engineers developing all-electric power train for future aircraft

  Funding from the Department of Energy for the UCSC team is part of a major effort to develop carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation.

• September 14, 2020

  Outstanding Staff Award honoree is a passionate advocate for STEM diversity

  Yulianna Ortega, the campus's STEM Diversity Programs director, has earned the trust and respect of fellow staff members, faculty, and students across divisions. Ortega, this year's Outstanding Staff Award recipient, is cares deeply about student academic success and well-being.

• September 14, 2020

  UC Santa Cruz ranks again as a top university for social mobility

  The ranking (No. 4) speaks to the campus’s success in offering a world-class education to low income and first-generation students.

• September 14, 2020

  ARCS Foundation scholarships support UCSC graduate students

  Sixteen UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $160,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation.

• September 10, 2020

  New art game explores intersection of personal trauma and climate induced wildfires

  Sin Sol (No Sun) is an augmented reality game that allows players to experience the feelings of a climate change event. Set 50 years in the future, it tells the story of environmental collapse from the past—which is our present in 2020.

• September 10, 2020

  High-fidelity record of Earth’s climate history puts current changes in context

  A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun is much smaller than projected future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.

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