• May 12, 2021

  Alumna Reyna Grande wins Latino Spirit Award for Achievement in Literature & Advocacy

  UC Santa Cruz alumna Reyna Grande (Kresge '99, B.A. creative writing, film & video) has received a 2021 Latino Spirit Award from the California Latino Legislative Caucus.

• May 12, 2021

  Virtual reality warps your sense of time

  Psychology research demonstrates the unique "time compression" effect of virtual reality.

• May 11, 2021

  Ultrasensitive antigen test detects SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses

  Novel chip-based diagnostic technology can detect individual viral antigens in nasal swab samples to identify the viruses that cause COVID-19 and flu with a single test.

• May 10, 2021

  Bearing witness to COVID at UC Santa Cruz

  Stories of resilience and loss are preserved in The Empty Year: An Oral History of the Pandemic(s) of 2020 at UC Santa Cruz, an immersive project that includes a 540-page published book

• May 10, 2021

  New tools enable rapid analysis of coronavirus sequences and tracking of variants

  Developed by the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, UShER allows researchers to quickly see how a new viral sequence is related to all other variants of SARS-CoV-2, crucial information for tracking transmission dynamics.

• May 6, 2021

  Creating a soundtrack and adding a heartbeat to the struggle for prison abolition

  UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present ‘Music for Abolition'--an artist panel featuring three-time Grammy-award winning musician Terri Lyne Carrington with a dozen prominent guest musicians.

• May 6, 2021

  'The only way society gets to reopen safely is if we are all vaccinated'

  UC Santa Cruz COVID experts Rebecca DuBois, A. Marm Kilpatrick, and Susan Carpenter are urging all unvaccinated people to book an appointment to get their shots immediately, and follow CDC safety guidelines even after the vaccinations take effect.

• May 5, 2021

  Temperamental supernova appeared strangely cool before exploding

  A curiously yellow star has caused astrophysicists to reevaluate the possible pathways that can lead to the explosion of a massive star as a supernova.

• May 5, 2021

  UCSC achieves fair-trade status through the work of students

  UC Santa Cruz passed a fair trade resolution that reflects its commitment to join the efforts of the Fair Trade Colleges & Universities, a division of Fair Trade Campaigns.

• May 4, 2021

  Long-term monitoring shows successful restoration of mining-polluted streams

  Despite differences in aquatic life and toxic metals in streams across a broad region of the western United States, scientists found common responses to cleanup of acid mine drainage.

• May 4, 2021

  Strauss Foundation award recognizes student’s work with families affected by incarceration

  Legal studies undergraduate Matt Sioson recently won $15,000 in funding from the Donald A. Strauss Public Service Scholarship Foundation.

• May 4, 2021

  Preserving the legacy of Watsonville’s first Filipino immigrants

  In partnership with the university, the community-led Tobera Project will develop an oral history archive and digital exhibition to be housed at McHenry Library.

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