• August 3, 2021

  NIH grant funds collaborative research on protein-RNA interactions in cancer

  Biologist Jeremy Sanford has received major funding from the National Cancer Institute for research on the role of protein-RNA interactions in cancer.

• August 2, 2021

  Switzer Fellowship will help graduate student engage communities in climate planning

  Coastal Science and Policy Program master’s student Diana Fu won a Switzer Foundation fellowship to support her work advancing environmental justice through climate change adaptation.

• July 30, 2021

  Climate change poses threat to ‘tuna dependent’ Pacific Islands economies

  Shifting distributions of key tuna species could have serious economic impacts for island nations in the Western and Central Pacific, according to a new paper coauthored by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Katherine Seto.

• July 29, 2021

  Oakes Founding Provost J. Herman Blake receives lifetime achievement award

  Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Founding Provost of Oakes College J. Herman Blake is being recognized by the American Sociology Association for his distinguished career spent advancing access and equity in education.

• July 22, 2021

  Dickens Universe celebrates 40th anniversary with ‘A Christmas Carol’

  This summer, the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz—the largest multi-campus consortium on Victorian studies in the world—will present the 40th year of the Dickens Universe, a week of intense study and festivities.

• July 22, 2021

  Racial and colonial histories offer insights on refugee crisis in ‘The Black Mediterranean’

  Assistant Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Camilla Hawthorne coedited a first-of-its-kind new book called "The Black Mediterranean," which examines the African diaspora within the region.

• July 21, 2021

  UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board of Trustees has elected Richard Moss to serve as chair, and Linda Peterson as vice chair; Paul Simpson elected as new member

  The UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board of Trustees has elected Richard Moss to serve as chair, Linda Peterson to serve as vice chair, Kamil Hasan to serve as immediate past chair, and re-elected Paul Hall to serve as parliamentarian.

• July 20, 2021

  Susana Ruiz awarded ACLS digital grant to develop VR documentary of 2011 Egyptian Uprising

  UC Santa Cruz assistant film and digital media professor Susana Ruiz has received a 2021 Digital Extension Grant of $150,000 from The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for her project, Arab Data Bodies: Social Media in Mixed Reality.

• July 20, 2021

  Blazing a Slug trail to the Olympics

  Rhythmic gymnast Izzy Connor will be the first UC Santa Cruz student to compete in the Olympics—the result of years of both personal struggle and success.

• July 19, 2021

  UC Santa Cruz admits fall class that reflects excellence, diversity

  UC Santa Cruz anticipates welcoming about 6,100 new Banana Slugs this fall, concluding an admissions cycle that began with record applications and has yielded a new cohort that reflects the campus commitment to excellence, equity, and opportunity.

• July 16, 2021

  History professor wins prize for article on post-Civil War incarceration of African American children

  Associate professor of history Catherine Jones has been honored with the 2021 Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2020. The journal explores how knowledge of the Civil War era informs our understanding of 21st-century politics and society.

• July 15, 2021

  Statistical analysis quantifies how chemistry undergraduates benefit from graduate student diversity

  A study of chemistry lab courses at UC Santa Cruz suggests that diversity among graduate student teaching assistants may be among the most essential factors in retaining underrepresented minority undergraduates in STEM courses.

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