2026
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Ethan van Thillo: From student film festival to a cultural institution
Ethan van Thillo (Merrill ’92, Latin American and Latino studies) founded the first-ever Chicano Film Festival at UC Santa Cruz, the first San Diego Latino Film Festival, and San Diego-based nonprofit Media Arts Center San Diego.
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UC Santa Cruz launches the Donor Collective as part of Inspiring Change—the Campaign for UCSC
The Donor Collective amplifies the shared values of UCSC donors and harnesses their philanthropy into powerful, lasting impact through student opportunities, educational programs, and breakthrough research. The Donor Collective creates a pathway for every donor to have the kind of impact they want to make in the world through supporting the university.
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They escaped the slave trade to an island in the middle of the ocean. Almost two centuries later, science is revealing their life histories.
The origin stories of Saint Helena’s Liberated Africans come into focus in a new study combining historical methods, computer modeling, and biogeochemical and DNA analysis.
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State funding supports UC Davis/UC Santa Cruz program to train future Central Coast physicians
The UC Programs in Medical Education Central Coast (PRIME Central Coast) is recruiting for its inaugural cohort of students, who will begin their medical training in 2027
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Alison Sanders to serve as associate chancellor and chief of staff
Sanders has worked in higher education for more than 25 years and currently serves as assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs and chief of staff in the UC San Diego Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.
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Collaborating to support youth leadership and voice
2026 Youth & Adult Partnership Summit promotes strategies for working effectively with youth, supported by UC Santa Cruz, United Way, and All Children Thrive.
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Beach season is here—just not for everyone
Marine and social scientists at UC Santa Cruz explain why privileged people enjoy more recreational, economic, and emotional benefits of the ocean than underresourced groups, and offer holistic remedies
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La temporada de playa ya está aquí—pero no para todos
Científicos marinos y sociales de la UC Santa Cruz explican por qué las personas privilegiadas disfrutan de más beneficios recreativos, económicos y emocionales del océano que los grupos con menos recursos, y ofrecen soluciones holísticas
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UC Santa Cruz team helps state better understand how wetlands sequester carbon and improve air quality
Atmosphere-monitoring towers operated by the Paytan Lab will tell the tale of two very different Southern California wetlands over the next two years
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Postdoctoral researcher to develop instrumentation to detect distant protoplanets
Supported by the new Astronova Fellowship program, Christina Vides will advance her research in a technique that sharpens the images from astronomical telescopes in order to detect faint planets in the glare of their bright host stars
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The color of penguin poo: Satellites reveal the chilling truth of global warming’s impact on an iconic polar species
Scientists study poop patterns of Adélie penguin colonies across all of Antarctica over a 30-year span using Landsat satellite images, a first for capturing food-web and population trends at continental and decadal scales relative to climate change
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‘Parent’ blood cells act as a buffer against the effects of aging
A new study shows cells called multipotent progenitors protect blood cell production and function