2025
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Explaining how our biological clocks work and how to better regulate our circadian rhythms
As anticipation builds for the longer days that follow this weekend’s switch to daylight savings time, the moment seemed ideal to turn to one of the nation’s leading circadian-rhythms researchers, UC Santa Cruz’s Carrie Partch.
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Timely Warning Crime Bulletin: Burglary
The UCSC Police Department and/or Title IX became aware on March 4, 2025, of three incidents potentially related to a violation of California Penal Code 647.
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AI chatbots perpetuate biases when performing empathy, study finds
A new study explores how GPT-4o, the latest model from OpenAI, evaluates and performs empathy compared to humans, and finds major gaps exist.
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Join the 2025 International Freezer Challenge
The UC Santa Cruz Office of Sustainability is excited to announce campus participation in the 2025 International Laboratory Freezer Challenge, a global initiative promoting sustainable cold storage practices. This is a fantastic opportunity for labs across UCSC to reduce energy use, improve efficiency, and contribute to our campus sustainability goals.
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Parking will be limited in Hahn Lot (Lot 101) from April 1 – 11
UC Santa Cruz will welcome more than 10,000 admitted and prospective students and their families to campus between April 1 and April 11, as they consider saying “Yes to UCSC.” This is an opportunity for all of us to share what is special about UC Santa Cruz.
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UC Santa Cruz earns Integrated Pest Management Achievement Award
In recognition of long-standing efforts to safely and sustainably manage pests, UC Santa Cruz has earned the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s Integrated Pest Management Achievement Award. Integrated Pest Management is any approach that uses the least-toxic, effective method to solve pest problems. Sustainable Pest Management (SPM) is a whole-system approach that builds on the…
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2025 CITRIS Multi-Campus Seed Funding Program open for submissions
The CITRIS Seed Funding Program issues competitive awards that advance information technology research for societal benefit and catalyze proof-of-concept results that can lead to transformative solutions for industry and the public sector.
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New biology study reveals four novel genes required for male fertility in mice
The pioneering research of UC Santa Cruz’s Upasna Sharma to determine how a father’s life experiences and environment can influence the health and wellbeing of his children moves forward with the recent discovery of four genes required for male fertility and the creation of specific RNA molecules in sperm.
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Clinical pediatric cancer lab at UC Santa Cruz is cleared to accept and test patient samples
The UC Santa Cruz Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory has received its CLIA certificate of registration from the California Department of Public Health, which clears the way for it to begin accepting patient samples.
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New way to activate UCSC Adobe Creative Cloud software
There is a new way to activate UCSC Adobe Creative Cloud accounts.
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UC Santa Cruz ocean scientist Adina Paytan honored for international research leadership
Adina Paytan, a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science Department and the Institute of Marine Science, has been awarded the Tommy and Yvette Edmondson Distinguished Service Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.