2024
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Gearing up for Giving Day
The ninth annual 24-hour crowdfunding campaign will host more than 175 project teams, 20 challenges and is poised to amplify and support thousands of students.
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Three UCSC alumnae named in SF Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business of 2024
Three alumnae, Judith Bell, Katherine Evans, and Ruby Bolaria Shifrin have been named in SF Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business of 2024.
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Rooted in resilience: Alumna Natalie Nguyen reflects on her journey
Recent UC Santa Cruz graduate Natalie Nguyen (Kresge ’23, economics) reflects on her UC Santa Cruz journey and post-graduation endeavors.
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UC Santa Cruz HSI team secures $3 million grant to support Latiné and low-income student success
CULTURA grant seeks to close post-pandemic equity gaps and support pathways to graduation, graduate school, and high-demand careers for Latiné and low-income students
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Professor A.M. Darke creates groundbreaking work in Black representation
A.M. Darke, an associate professor of Performance, Play, & Design at UC Santa Cruz, has spent her career becoming one of the leading voices of diversity in games, especially in the context of representing Black hair. For her latest work Darke has helped compile a program that better represents coily hair in animation.
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Transit systems in Kenya demonstrate some potential upsides of worker monitoring technologies
In a new paper for the October issue of the American Economic Review, UC Santa Cruz economist David Schönholzer shared findings from an experimental application of a worker monitoring technology for minibus transit companies in Kenya. The results demonstrate how, in some cases, monitoring technologies can lead to broader societal good.
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Modern politics reexamined through classic play ‘Inspector General’
Michael Chemers’, a professor of Performance Play and Design and chair of the department at University of California, Santa Cruz, most recent project adapts The Inspector General, a Russian play by Nikolai Gogol which criticized 19th century Russian politics, for a contemporary audience. The show will open on November 15 and runs through November 24…
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Engineers awarded CDC contract to build pathogen-tracing public health tools
The CDC has awarded Corbett-Detig and his team at the UCSC Genomics Institute a two-year, $2.52 million contract to continue their work tracking the COVID-19 virus’s evolution and expand their software tools to track other pathogens.
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A popular Humanities course is unwrapping the strange and fraught history and cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies.
In their co-taught course, LIT 159M/HIS 159M: The Curse of the Mummy, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Literature Renee Fox and Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan are looking into the strange pop-cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies, which keep showing up as supernatural villains in movies and books.
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California General Election
Tuesday, November 5th is Election Day in California for the General Election.