• April 16, 2021

  Alumna Terri McCullough, chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will make a virtual campus visit for Alumni Week

  This year’s Alumni Week will feature a virtual fireside chat with Terri McCullough, an Oakes '90 politics alumna who is now chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

• April 15, 2021

  Honoring UC Santa Cruz’s 2021 Distinguished Graduate School Alumni

  The five recipients of this year’s Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award will be honored for their achievements during a Zoom-based webinar award ceremony on Saturday, April 24. The event will celebrate the 2020 and 2021 honorees.

• April 15, 2021

  Baked meteorites yield clues to planetary atmospheres

  The gases released from meteorite samples heated in a high-temperature furnace can tell scientists about the initial composition of the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets.

• April 15, 2021

  Coral reefs prevent more than $5.3 billion in potential flood damage for U.S. property owners

  A new study reveals how valuable coral reefs are in protecting people, structures, and economic activity in the United States from coastal flooding during storms.

• April 15, 2021

  Two UC Santa Cruz arts professors receive 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships

  Film and digital media professor Irene Lusztig and art professor Elizabeth Stephens were among the 184 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists selected this year from nearly 3,000 applicants to receive Guggenheim Fellowships.

• April 13, 2021

  Inaugural Banana Slug Share sessions will add life and learning to Alumni Week

  The spirit of "paying it forward" infuses UC Santa Cruz’s inaugural Banana Slug Share Sessions, in which alumni will provide hard-won advice about everything from kombucha-making to the interpretation of dreams. These sessions are among the highlights of UC Santa Cruz's virtual Alumni Week 2021.

• April 13, 2021

  Study warns of ‘oxygen false positives’ in search for signs of life on other planets

  Oxygen in the atmosphere may not be an entirely reliable ‘biosignature,’ but there are ways to distinguish false positives from signs of life.

• April 13, 2021

  Study of U.S. tuna fisheries explores nexus of climate change, sustainable seafood

  A new study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz and NOAA examines traditional aspects of seafood sustainability alongside greenhouse gas emissions to better understand the carbon footprint of U.S. tuna fisheries.

• April 13, 2021

  EH&S director focused on supporting employees through pandemic

  Early in the pandemic, the Environmental Health and Safety team worked to provide face coverings to the campus and stay up on the latest information.

• April 12, 2021

  Sharing insights from more than six decades of social psychology research

  New book by Professor Emeritus Thomas Pettigrew distills themes across his storied career

• April 9, 2021

  Inaugural Hayden White lecture to explore the afterlife of slavery with author Saidiya Hartman

  Award-winning literary scholar and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman will be the featured guest at the inaugural Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, a virtual event that takes place on April 19.

• April 8, 2021

  UCSC climate change conference focuses on food security issues

  ‘Confronting Climate Change: Food Security in a Changing World’ will be held virtually April 28-29, featuring a panel of experts and a series of short films.

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