2025
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Changing the story: Acclaimed author William Finnegan on his long journey to The New Yorker
Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Finnegan (Cowell, ‘74, Literature), this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Award, spoke of the need for self-reinvention, crooked paths, career switches, and “changing your story” during his acceptance speech at this week’s Celebrating the Humanities event.
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A quarter century of new perspectives: The Humanities Institute turns 25
The Humanities Institute has an outsized impact on UC Santa Cruz and the wider world with its strong focus on research excellence, student success, and public engagement.
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Important: UCPath Direct Deposit Phishing Alert
These sophisticated scams involve using fake but convincing websites, as well as spoofed phone calls and text messages pretending to be from IT or help desks.
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Transfer Day 2025: Welcoming future Banana Slugs
More than 2,000 admitted transfer students and their families attended Transfer Day 2025 at UC Santa Cruz. The event featured a keynote by alumna Reyna Grande, campus tours, resource fairs, and sessions to help students explore life as a future Banana Slug.
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AI is good at weather forecasting. Can it predict freak weather events?
New study tests neural networks’ ability to handle ‘gray swan’ events.
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Whales and the stories they carry about climate change are the subject of new art and science exhibition at the IAS
A new exhibit at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz merges cutting-edge whale research with immersive art to tell powerful, interdisciplinary stories about climate change and ecological justice.
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UC Santa Cruz Police, students collaborate on innovative crime visualization dashboard
Users can view categorized crime data, time trends, and geographic mapping of reported crimes and incidents—features that enhance both public awareness and efforts to strengthen community safety.
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Become a Commencement ambassadors needed
Over 4,000 Slugs will cross the stage June 13–16. We need ambassadors to help make sure everything runs smoothly during commencement. We’re hoping you’ll sign up!
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Experimental economist explores overlooked aspects of human behavior
Alumna Alessandra Cassar, now a professor at the University of San Francisco, found her path by working with UC Santa Cruz’s Learning and Experimental Economics Projects (LEEPS) laboratory as a graduate student.
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Inside Spring Give 2025
Spring Give brought together 94 project teams and the broader UC Santa Cruz community for 11 days of collective support for student success.
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‘Selfish’ genes called introners proven to be a major source of genetic complexity
UC Santa Cruz researchers are studying the ways certain genetic elements hide and make copies of themselves, so they can propagate within a species’ DNA, or even hop from one species to an unrelated one in a process called “horizontal gene transfer.”
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UC Santa Cruz foundry marks 50 years with bronze pour and celebration of legacy
UC Santa Cruz celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundry—the last of its kind in the UC system to teach classes—with a festive bronze pour, alumni and student collaboration, and heartfelt tributes honoring its legacy, mentors, and community impact.