October 2025
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WASC Reaccreditation—Opportunity to Meet with the Review Team on October 30, 2025
UC Santa Cruz is undergoing a reaccreditation review. These reviews happen every ten years.
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Rooted in education, expanding opportunity
Inspired by a shared love of learning and a family of educators, alumnus Roger Koopmann (Stevenson ’80, economics) and his late husband, Tom Bullen (Ph.D. ’86, Earth sciences), established scholarships that give UC Santa Cruz students the chance to pursue research and study abroad experiences.
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UC Santa Cruz named National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research
The recognition highlights UC Santa Cruz’s research and educational contributions to advancing cybersecurity.
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Educational Partnership Center awarded $18.33 million in federal GEAR UP grants
UC Santa Cruz received two of the five GEAR UP Partnership grants in California, expanding educational access and opportunities for Central Coast students and families.
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Lessons from a historic quest to heal spider bites are helping to fight neglected tropical diseases today
Associate Professor Lily Balloffet’s latest research traces successful early efforts to produce new antivenoms in Latin America and explores implications for modern public health issues, like snakebite and Chagas disease
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Prescribed burns near campus starting Monday, October 6
California State Parks will conduct prescribed burns at Wilder Ranch State Park beginning Monday, October 6 through Friday, October 10.
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Two UC Santa Cruz Education Ph.D. candidates receive 2025 National Academy of Education fellowships
Micah Card and Emanuel Suarez Jimenez were awarded the 2025 Spencer Dissertation Fellowships to study crucial emerging issues in education.
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Coastal flooding in the Bay Area: New research illuminates strategies for adaptation
Center for Coastal Climate Resilience finds mix of hard infrastructure and nature-based solutions offers best defense against sea-level rise in San Francisco Bay
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Invitation to the SAB Virtual Fall Forum
The Staff Advisory Board invites you to the Fall Forum with Chancellor Larive on November 4.
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NSF grant explores impact of embedding ethics into genomics, neuroscience, and AI
Professor Jenny Reardon will study how scientists working on high stakes emerging technologies are partnering with ethicists and social scientists to consider societal implications.
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UC Santa Cruz Alumnus Marty O’Reilly takes the stage on The Voice
Marty O’Reilly (Kresge ’12, environmental studies) turned three out of four judges’ chairs during The Voice blind auditions.