2025
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This year’s Dickens Universe will explore a neglected Victorian melodrama
This summer’s edition of The Dickens Universe – a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity – will give Dickens admirers a chance to rediscover The Old Curiosity Shop.
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UC Santa Cruz earns high marks in Princeton Review rankings
UC Santa Cruz has been named one of the nation’s top universities by The Princeton Review for 2025, earning national recognition for its exceptional financial aid, strong value, sustainability leadership, and stunning campus—affirming its reputation as a student-centered, socially conscious, and academically rigorous institution.
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Here’s how we help an iconic California fish survive the gauntlet of today’s highly modified waterways
New ‘facilitated migration’ framework gives water managers a playbook for getting more juvenile Chinook salmon from the Central Valley to the sea
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New software promises to make precision genome editing with CRISPR accessible to more researchers
Integration into widely used UCSC Genome Browser makes tool available to entire life-sciences community
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Art, activism, and ecosexuality converge in Beth Stephens’ new film, Playing with Fire
Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency, the latest film by UC Santa Cruz professor Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, premiered at Frameline 49, blending queer sexuality, environmental activism, and performance art to explore our intimate relationship with fire and the climate crisis.
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Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning
Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.
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Alumna wins first season of ‘Yes, Chef!’ on Peacock
UC Santa Cruz alumna Emily Brubaker won the first season of ‘Yes, Chef!’ against 11 other professional chefs.
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Eric Palkovacs appointed new director of Institute of Marine Sciences
The professor of ecology and evolutionary biology is also UC Santa Cruz’s associate vice chancellor for research and director of the Fisheries Collaborative Program
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Games promote preparedness and build community resilience to wildfire
UC Santa Cruz game makers invite users to test their safety instincts before disaster strikes
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State assemblymember honors The Humanities Institute
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz celebrated its 25th anniversary with a lively Night at the Museum event at the MAH, featuring speculative fiction projects, public scholarship, and a special commendation from State Assemblymember Gail Pellerin.
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Curing the incurable: Alumni-founded biotech firm partners with global immunology company
The research collaboration opens up treatment possibilities for diseases in areas like oncology, cardiometabolic disorders, and autoimmune conditions.