Interdisciplinary

Robotics project aims to develop systems for human-robot collaboration

$3.5 million NSF-funded project will use open-source robotic surgery platform developed at UCSC and UW.

Tracking pumas

UCSC students get first-hand scientific experience while monitoring the elusive big cats as part of the Puma Project.

Emerging vector-borne diseases create new public health challenges

Land-use change, globalization of trade and travel, and social upheaval are driving the emergence of diseases in many regions.

Science educator Doris Ash wins University of Stockholm lecture award

Doris Ash, associate professor of education at UC Santa Cruz, has been awarded the Svend Pedersen Lecture Award from the University of Stockholm.

UCSC celebrates launch of new Ph.D. program in Feminist Studies

The UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department officially celebrated the launch of its long-awaited Ph.D.program with a kick-off reception at the Chancellor’s house.

Image of hand shows progress toward proton radiography

Researchers developing a new medical imaging technology that uses protons instead of x-rays presented the first proton radiographic image of a hand.

Switzer Environmental Fellowship awarded to UCSC grad student

Priya Ganguli, a Ph.D. candidate in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, has received a Switzer Environmental Fellowship.

Extraordinary achievement, social consciousness celebrated at gala event

Honorees of 6th annual Founders Celebration Dinner share one of UCSC's core goals: 'Leaving the world a better place'

UCSC alumna thrives promoting arts and humanities in Obama White House

“I often say, only partly facetiously, that I have the best job in Washington D.C.,” notes UC Santa Cruz alumna Rachel Goslins, executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, an advisory committee to the White House on cultural issues.

UCSC awarded $4.5 million NSF grant for renewable energy research and education

UCSC leads a cooperative research and education program on renewable energy involving universities in the United States and Denmark.

Founders Celebration highlights research and ideals of UC Santa Cruz

The sixth annual Founders Celebration Friday, October 12 will feature a free public lecture by Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of the United Kingdom, followed by a gala dinner honoring Rees, Gordon and Betty Moore, George and Gail Michaelis-Ow, UCSC alumnae Shannon Brownlee, and UCSC distinguished professor Gail Hershatter.

UCSC hosts 'Genomics Gets Personal: Property, Persons, Privacy' Sept. 27

UC Santa Cruz will convene a world-class panel of medical and legal experts September 27 at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus to discuss the fundamental ethical, social, and legal issues surrounding personal genomic research.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents work of John Jota Leaños

"Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta"--a bilingual multi-media opera by UCSC assistant professor of film and digital media John Jota Leaños--will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, September 14-16.

UCSC’s DANM program to be featured at ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose

UCSC”s Digital Arts and New Media program (DANM) will showcase campus projects at the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial—an international festival featuring work at the intersection of art and technology—that takes place in Silicon Valley and around the Bay Area, September 12 to December 8.

UCSC provides access to encyclopedia of the human genome

The ENCODE project is giving biomedical researchers a solid genetic foundation for understanding how the body works in health and disease.

UCSC taps Tang Museum director to lead innovative museum project

The UC Santa Cruz Arts Division announced today that John Weber—currently Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York—has been hired to guide the development of a new institute of the arts and sciences.

Crossing the boundaries of media-focused computer science, digital humanities and arts

Interaction between media-focused computer science, the digital humanities and digital arts have the potential to drive major progress in interactive media creation and understanding.

Shakespeare Santa Cruz launches new season July 24

Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC) will kick off its 31st season on Tuesday, July 24. Nearly 60 UCSC students and alumni help make it happen.

Undergrad finds clue to scientific mystery in ancient text

UCSC undergrad Jonathon Allen found a clue in historical archives that may explain unusual isotope levels in growth rings of Japanese cedars.

Researchers find increase in Lyme disease mirrors drop in red fox numbers

A continued increase of Lyme disease in the United States, once linked to a recovering deer population, may instead be explained by a decline of the red fox, UC Santa Cruz researchers suggest in a new study.

Physicist Alexander Sher named Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

Alexander Sher, assistant professor of physics, will receive $240,000 to support his research on how the retina heals itself after laser surgery.

Year of the Slug: Great UCSC moments in 2011-12

From the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame to cancer research to its ranking as one of the top “young” universities in the world, UCSC stood in the spotlight this year.

UCSC psychology society holds first undergraduate research conference

The UC Santa Cruz chapter of Psi Chi is highlighting undergraduate research in psychology this week as it hosts the department's first Undergraduate Research Conference.

UCSC social scientists examine the economic crisis and its social impacts

UC Santa Cruz social scientists will examine and assess the causes and effects of the unprecedented global economic recession during a one-day forum Tuesday, May 22 at University Center.

Medical robotics expert Jacob Rosen named Health Care Hero

The Silicon Valley Business Journal honored robotics expert Jacob Rosen with a 2012 Health Care Heroes award.

Grad students present impressive array of research projects at symposium

Graduate students from across the divisions presented their work at the 8th Annual Graduate Research Symposium.

UC Santa Cruz builds national data center for cancer genome research

UCSC has established a large-scale data repository and user portal for the National Cancer Institute's cancer genome research programs.

Lasting friendship, enduring inspiration: J. Herman Blake and Don Rothman move crowd at forum

On Friday night, when emeritus writing lecturer Don Rothman and Oakes College founding provost J. Herman Blake sat down to talk about the transformative power of education, they made than 40 years of UCSC history feel intimate, personal and immediate.

Teaching luminaries share classroom secrets at Academic Forum

The large crowd that attended the Academic Forum at the Humanities Lecture Hall —one of the cornerstones of the UCSC Alumni Reunion Weekend—had a rare opportunity to hear these and other teaching secrets of renowned educators, ranging from social psychologist Elliot Aronson to noted feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker.

A fusion of art and science

DANM 2012 MFA Exhibition: ‘I've got something on your mind’

Eleven graduate students from UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. Program (DANM) will conclude two years of artistic study with "I've got something on your mind"--an exhibition of their work running April 28 through May 6 at the UCSC Digital Arts and Research Center.

Oakes College founding faculty trace UCSC's roots in upcoming forum

Herman Blake,founding provost of Oakes College, and his old friend and UCSC senior lecturer emeritus in writing Don Rothman, will discuss the enduring values of UCSC and the history of Oakes during Alumni Reunion Week.

UCSC film professor John Jota Leaños wins 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship

UC Santa Cruz assistant professor of film and digital media John Jota Leaños has been awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for the creative arts.

Exhibition documents anthropology's focus on emerging worlds

Emerging Worlds, a new faculty exhibition now open at Porter Sesnon Gallery on the UC Santa Cruz campus, documents and illustrates the research theme of UCSC's anthropology department.