2020
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Post-election events, resources
While we wait the outcome of the president election, UC Santa Cruz is providing several opportunities for students to gather and get support. This page will be updated as more events are scheduled.
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Student housing environmental review affirmed by the courts
A UC Santa Cruz project that will significantly increase campus housing options for current graduate and undergraduate students has cleared a crucial hurdle in the courts.
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Novel technique spotlights neuronal uptake of amyloid beta in Alzheimer’s disease
Study finds a short section of the amyloid beta protein is recognized by the cellular prion protein, which mediates its uptake into neurons and subsequent toxicity.
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Best practices for hybrid and remote teams
Our work environment has changed dramatically. Our management and supervision practices are changing as a result.
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Wildfire brings destruction and opportunity to researcher’s field site
Hydrologist Margaret Zimmer has received NSF funding to study the impact of wildfire on the site where she has been studying how water moves through the landscape.
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Shaping our country’s future, exercising your rights
On Tuesday, Americans will decide for themselves the direction they’d like to see our country head. Voting is a hard-fought right in the United States, and I urge all who are eligible to exercise it, either through mail-in balloting or by going to the polls.
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Open Enrollment 2020
The annual Open Enrollment (OE) period Open Enrollment will take place from 8 a.m. on Oct. 29 through 5 p.m. on Nov. 24. Changes made during Open Enrollment become effective on January 1, 2021.
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Campus publishes reports on CARES Act funding
UC Santa Cruz has published two reports summarizing how it has used funding received through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
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Update about the campus budget, voting and COVID testing
The economic impacts of COVID are also sobering, for families and our country. The University of California system is not immune to these realities.
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Genetic analysis system yields new insights into bacterial pneumonia
Using a CRISPR interference system to study virulence genes in a mouse model of pneumonia, scientists observed surprising variability in how the disease progresses.
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Big Ideas contest offers up to $20,000 for big ideas in social innovation
Big Ideas contest, open to all UC students, seeks student-led, early-stage projects or ideas with a social impact focus.
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Scientists discover how a common mutation leads to ‘night owl’ sleep disorder
A small change in a key component of our biological clocks lengthens the clock period, causing people to stay up late at night and sleep late in the morning.