March 2023 News Archive

Grad student Huazhi Ge wins postdoctoral fellowship for planetary science research

Huazhi Ge, a doctoral candidate in planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has won a prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from the Heising-Simons Foundation to support his postdoctoral

New program advises UCSC Ph.D. students on their path to entrepreneurship and venture capital

Many student-led innovations never make it out of the lab. A new program at UC Santa Cruz aims to change that by mentoring Ph.D. students in the life

Staff Appreciation Picnic Save the Date and Tabling Information

Please save the date for our annual Staff Appreciation Picnic.

Community health guidance for returning from spring break

This message from Student Health Services shares guidance to help our campus community mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

Community health guidance for returning from spring break

As you prepare to return to campus and begin spring quarter, we write to share community health guidance as related to COVID-19.

New partner for Employee Assistance Program

Starting Saturday, April 1, ComPsych will be our new partner for delivering services and support for our Employee Assistance Program.

Spring 2023 Emeriti Lecture: Peace Teachers In and From Soledad Prison

John Brown Childs began offering courses on transcommunality at Soledad Correctional Facility eighteen years ago. Almost two decades later, his teachings continue to transform the lives of incarcerated

Dickens Project honored with the 2023 Award of Merit from the California Association of Teachers of English.

The CATE award recognizes the Dickens Project’s long history of outreach and partnerships with high school students and

A scholar in his own community: Kevin Weatherwax

Computational Media Ph.D. student Kevin Weatherwax's research is supported through the Piatt Fellowship, a scholarship for doctoral students from Santa Cruz County.

Improving access to Early Start Summer Edge Program

This year, to advance access to a summer start, the Division of Undergraduate Education has removed the Summer Edge $50 registration fee, which is one of several initiatives taken to encourage new admits, and particularly transfer students, to take advantage of the opportunity to make degree progress before their first fall.

Humans and housing density are the leading cause of death for local pumas

Two new studies involving UC Santa Cruz researchers are shedding light on the challenges facing local pumas where humans are encroaching on their natural

Honoring the contributions of Gordon Moore

Science has lost one of its greatest champions with the death of Gordon Moore, a visionary engineer whose pioneering work on semiconductors set the stage for a technological revolution that changed the world in countless ways and enabled research breakthroughs in fields far and wide. 

Grant funds Sarker's aquaculture sustainability research

Pallab Sarker received a foundation grant fund from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, amounting to $170,947 over three years to strengthen his lab’s ecological aquaculture

Pedroza received Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant

Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Pedroza aims to learn more about these challenges and speak to them, with the help of a recently awarded grant from the Russell Sage

JWST’s first direct spectrum of planetary-mass object reveals dynamic atmosphere

The most detailed spectrum ever for a planetary-mass object outside our solar system covers an unprecedented range of wavelengths, providing a wealth of new

Thankful for our community

We are so proud to be part of our outstanding Banana Slug community.

Center for Labor and Community opens on UC Santa Cruz campus

Scholars studying the economic and social impacts of a variety of labor and employment issues facing workers in Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay Area just announced the

Computer engineering research prompts bug fixes, updates to major GPU frameworks

A new suite of GPU tests developed by Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Tyler Sorensen and his students led to changes to an important GPU framework

Collaboration with NASA uses eDNA technology to monitor biodiversity

UCSC scientists collected environmental DNA samples in South Africa as part of the BioSCape

The State of California offers a new program to help first-time homebuyers

The California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) under Governor Newsom is launching a new program to benefit first-time homebuyers.

Bike race to partially close Hagar and Coolidge on April 9

A bicycle race at UC Santa Cruz will close the northbound lane of Hagar Drive and the southbound lane of Coolidge Drive from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 9.

Notice of Open Comment – UC Clery Act Policy

The University of California Office of the President invites comments on the interim Clery Act Policy – Campus Safety and Security Reporting.

Scientists, policy leaders, and insurance experts meet to address climate risks

The Coastal Climate Resilience Symposium held at the Seymour Center focused on integrating nature-based solutions into risk management and

UCSC names astronomer Bryan Gaensler dean of Physical and Biological Sciences

UC Santa Cruz has appointed internationally recognized astronomer Bryan Gaensler to serve as dean of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, effective August

Cultivating equitable communications

Elise Duffau was awarded the Frederico and Rena Perlino Memorial Scholarship in 2022. Learn more about how scholarships support students at UC Santa Cruz.

Announcing appointment of Dean of Physical & Biological Sciences

We are excited to announce the appointment of Bryan Gaensler as UC Santa Cruz’s next Dean of Physical & Biological Sciences. His first day at UCSC is set for August 15.

Andrew Kramer: A witness to war

Black Studies minor builds momentum 

The Black Studies minor at the University of California, Santa Cruz has grown in size and influence at a time when the United States continues to grapple with

Supporting our neighbors in need

The university has reached out to students from the Pajaro area offering support and campus resources.

UC Santa Cruz moving forward on project to increase student housing, expand childcare services

Student Housing West will provide housing for more than 3,000 students following project, finance approvals by the UC Board of

Regent action advances Student Housing West

UC Santa Cruz, following finance and project approvals earlier today by the UC Board of Regents, is now able to move ahead with construction of our long-planned 3,000-bed Student Housing West project.

Young Supernova Experiment releases first set of transient survey data

UC Santa Cruz astronomers organized the survey, which has discovered thousands of cosmic explosions and other transient events of interest to astronomers and

Researcher solves nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma

Dejan Milutinovic has solved a nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma called the wall pursuit game, with implications for better reasoning about autonomous systems such as driverless

Join the Campus Advisory Committee on the Status of Womxn

Our Campus Advisory Committee on the Status of Womxn (CACSW) invites interest and nominations for roles: Co-Chair (Faculty), Co-Chair (Staff), Secretary/Treasurer, and Member(s)-at-Large.

Announcing our new Chief Campus Counsel

Eréndira Rubin will serve as the Chief Campus Counsel, beginning March 16. With more than 10 years of experience in higher education, Eréndira will lead the Office of

Local educators shared expertise at the first STEM Education Central Coast Conference

The conference, which was organized by California State University Monterey Bay in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz, was designed by and for local educators in science, technology, engineering

Strengthening UC Climate Policy: Community Feedback Forum

As the climate crisis worsens, UC is evolving its response with an updated climate policy that shifts away from a carbon neutrality strategy that requires significant reliance on offsets towards a strategy of direct decarbonization.

Welcoming the new director of Undergraduate Admissions

Timetra Hampton has been appointed as UC Santa Cruz’s new Director of Undergraduate Admissions. She will begin on May

Notice of Open Comment, UC Policy on Inventions, Patents, and Innovation Transfer

The University of California Office of the President invites comments on a proposed Presidential Policy on Inventions, Patents, and Innovation Transfer.

Minke whales are as small as a lunge-feeding baleen whale can be

Research on the feeding behavior of Antarctic minke whales found that a smaller whale could not capture enough food to survive using the lunge-feeding strategy of baleen

Winning Grad Slam presentation highlights disease threat to Hawaiian birds

Ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student Christa Seidl will compete in the UC systemwide Grad Slam in May, presenting her research on avian

Advocating for human rights

Nicole Britton was awarded the Weiss Family Scholarship in 2022. Learn more about how scholarships support students at UC Santa Cruz.

Planetary scientist Myriam Telus wins NSF CAREER Award

Myriam Telus, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)

Where is your squid coming from? Most likely unregulated waters, according to a new international study

Scientists and policymakers have voiced growing concerns about the decline of global squid stocks, but little has been done to date to target squid fishing activities that are

New project will develop safer, highly accurate GPS alternative

Ricardo Sanfelice, UCSC professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his team of graduate students and researchers are designing a new and resilient Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)

First images released from James Webb Space Telescope’s largest general observer program

Mosaic images from the COSMOS-Web program offer a treasure trove of early galaxies, including dazzling examples of spiral galaxies, gravitational lensing, and evidence of galaxy

SAB Winter Forum - Virtual Only

The Staff Advisory Board invites you to join us on Wednesday, March 15, 12 - 1 pm, for the second 2023 winter forum to introduce staff members to three of our campus vice chancellors.

Imagining Freedom: Dr. Angela Davis and Dr. Gina Dent Participate in Panel Highlighting UCSC’s Visualizing Abolition Curriculum

On the recent panel “Imagining Freedom,” presented by the Mellon Foundation, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor Dr. Gina Dent and Distinguished Professor Emerita Angela Y. Davis participated in

Alumni Councilor April Yee

April Yee joined the UCSC Alumni Council in 2017.

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

Incoming Storm Thursday and Friday

The National Weather Service is forecasting heavy rains and strong winds in Santa Cruz beginning Thursday and continuing into Saturday.

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

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

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

New Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships announced

Lorena Rodriguez was appointed the Director of the Financial Aid and Scholarship Office as on March 1, 2023. Most recently serving as the Deputy Director of Financial

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

Continuing an Academic Legacy

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

Notice from Office of Admissions: Admitted Student Tours Beginning April 3

Michelle Whittingham, associate vice chancellor for enrollment management and interim director of undergraduate admissions shares important dates for and upcoming information about upcoming programs and services for newly admitted students.

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

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

Celebrating UCSC’s Pioneer Alumni

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