• October 19, 2018

  Visionary tech pioneer Jaron Lanier to deliver Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture

  Computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and acclaimed author Jaron Lanier will deliver the 2018 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture on Monday, October 29, at the Music Center Recital Hall. He will speak on the topic, "How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It."

• October 19, 2018

  Creating a culture shift in fieldwork

  A workshop designed by a UC Santa Cruz professor and Ph.D. student aims to help scientists learn how to prevent and deal with sexual assault and harassment in field settings, where researchers often work in harsh conditions and close quarters miles from help.

• October 18, 2018

  3D-printed supercapacitor electrode breaks records in lab tests

  Advances in supercapacitor technology could lead to wider use of fast-charging energy storage devices and novel designs for electronic gadgets.

• October 17, 2018

  UC Santa Cruz receives Mellon Foundation humanities grant to explore Earth Futures

  Catastrophic environmental breakdown, mass species extinction, financial collapse, racist separatism, global nuclear war…there is much speculation these days that we are living at the end of democracy, liberalism, capitalism, a cool planet, and civilization as we know it...

• October 17, 2018

  Study documents paternal transmission of epigenetic memory via sperm

  Susan Strome's lab at UC Santa Cruz is making steady progress in unraveling how environmental effects on health and development can be transmitted across generations.

• October 11, 2018

  Getty Research Institute and PBS feature work by alumna book artist Felicia Rice

  On October 20, The Getty Research Institute will present the world premiere screening of Visionaries, the newest episode from PBS's award-winning documentary series, Craft in America. UC Santa Cruz arts alumna Felicia Rice is featured in that episode.

• October 11, 2018

  Gary Griggs covers region's history of natural disasters in new book

  Griggs puts the natural disasters of recent decades into historical context in his latest book, 'Between Paradise and Peril: The Natural Disaster History of the Monterey Bay Region.'

• October 10, 2018

  Arts professor to participate in Television Academy Foundation’s 2018 Faculty Seminar Program

  UC Santa Cruz associate professor of film and digital media L.S. Kim is one of 25 professors from colleges and universities across the country selected for the Television Academy Foundation’s 2018 Faculty Seminar Program.

• October 10, 2018

  Astronomer Natalie Batalha to receive Alumni Achievement Award

  After serving as science lead for NASA’s Kepler Mission from 2011 to 2017, Batalha is returning to UC Santa Cruz as a professor of astronomy and astrophysics.

• October 10, 2018

  UCSC hosts free public forum Oct. 22 on the Santa Cruz housing crisis

  Six UC Santa Cruz scholars will discuss rent control and other proposals to address the Santa Cruz housing crisis during a free public forum on Monday, October 22, in the Kresge Town Hall.

• October 9, 2018

  UC Santa Cruz honors outstanding staff, teaching, research

  The Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz presented several major awards today (Tuesday, October 9) to recognize outstanding accomplishments by faculty, staff, researchers, and emeriti faculty.

• October 8, 2018

  Nine in 10 Silicon Valley jobs pay less now than 20 years ago, new research reveals

  The vast majority of workers in Silicon Valley have been excluded from the area’s enormous economic boom, according to the results of a new study that reveals that nearly nine in ten jobs pay less today than they did 20 years ago.

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