University News & Events

• March 8, 2023

  Marine mammal reproduction rests on a precarious tipping point of ocean resources

  A study of northern elephant seals reveals a threshold at which a small decrease in the amount of prey females can find during foraging migrations could lead to a sudden drop in reproductive success.

• March 8, 2023

  Alumni Councilor April Yee

  April Yee joined the UCSC Alumni Council in 2017.

• March 7, 2023

  UCSC wins prestigious Highly Established Action Plan Seal for voter engagement

  UC Santa Cruz has become one of only three University of California campuses awarded a Highly Established Action Plan Seal as part of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) for its voter engagement efforts.

• March 7, 2023

  Indigenous land management focus of this year’s Conversations on Climate Justice

  Wildfires. Flooding. Drought. The nation has faced these climate issues for centuries. Yet, there’s still a lot that can be learned from pre-colonial indigenous food and land management techniques to combat our current climate problems, according to Dr. Lyla June Johnston, the keynote speaker for UC Santa Cruz’s third annual Conversations on Climate Justice event, coming up this Monday, March 13.

• March 7, 2023

  SpikeGPT: researcher releases code for largest-ever spiking neural network for language generation

  Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jason Eshraghian and two students recently released the open-sourced code for the largest language-generating spiking neural network ever, named SpikeGPT.

• March 6, 2023

  Graphene quantum dots show promise as novel magnetic field sensors

  Physicists found that speeding electrons trapped in circular loops in graphene quantum dots are highly sensitive to external magnetic fields.

• March 6, 2023

  Continuing an Academic Legacy

  The Dr. Aaronette White Scholarship was awarded to Guneet Hora in 2022.

• March 3, 2023

  Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz wins 2023 AAAS Mentor Award

  The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded the 2023 AAAS Mentor Award to Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz.

• March 2, 2023

  New leaf wetness sensor will enable better plant disease forecasting and management

  An interdisciplinary team of researchers created a new type of sensor for more accurately measuring leaf wetness which will enable better plant disease forecasting and management.

• March 1, 2023

  Celebrating UCSC’s Pioneer Alumni

  Register today to be a part of the meaningful reunion weekend for our pioneer classes.

• February 27, 2023

  Introducing The Humanities Institute’s 2023 Deep Read: Elizabeth Kolbert’s Under A White Sky: The Nature Of the Future

  This year's Deep Read selection is Under A White Sky: The Nature Of The Future by New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert. The book delves into the ingenuity and complications of efforts to reverse environmental damage and climate change. The program kicks off this spring and culminates in a live discussion with Kolbert on Sunday, May 21 at the Quarry Amphitheatre.

• February 27, 2023

  Shrinking age distribution of spawning salmon raises climate resilience concerns

  Study suggests changes in hatchery practices could help increase population stability for Sacramento River fall-run Chinook salmon, the backbone of California’s salmon fishery.

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