2026
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UC Santa Cruz advances partnerships in Indonesia, formalizes first 2+2 agreement
UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff traveled to Indonesia in February to sign the campus’s first 2+2 degree agreement with the University of Indonesia and explore additional academic partnerships with universities in Jakarta and Bandung.
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Parking will be limited in Hahn Lot (Lot 101) from April 1 – 10
April 1–10, Hahn Lot (Lot 101) will have limited parking during business hours as UC Santa Cruz welcomes more than 5,000 admitted students and families to campus.
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Father’s tobacco use may raise children’s diabetes risk
Mouse study finds link between father’s nicotine exposure and offspring’s metabolism
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‘Dignidad en los campos’: un reporte documenta las condiciones y presenta recomendaciones para los trabajadores agrícolas de Salinas.
El reporte ofrece soluciones prácticas y centradas en la equidad para las dificultades que limitan tanto el bienestar de los trabajadores como la prosperidad regional a largo plazo.
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‘Dignity in the Fields’: report documents conditions and outlines recommendations for Salinas farmworkers
The report provides practical, equity-centered solutions for the challenges that limit both worker well-being and long-term regional prosperity.
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Humanities EXPLORE Fellows bridge history, culture, and community
This year’s Humanities EXPLORE Program fellows are adventurous and ambitious, transcribing 300-year–old texts, helping to revitalize forgotten languages, exploring archives, and learning from faculty mentors. This winter, two fellows were given film cameras to preserve and share their experiences of connection, creativity, and purpose.
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Does sexual harassment behavior matter for ecosystems?
Intense harassment of females by male mosquitofish increases the ecosystem consequences of this highly invasive fish
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Maria Rocha-Ruiz named UC Santa Cruz’s Sea Dubs Wavemaker
Maria Rocha-Ruiz has been named UC Santa Cruz’s Sea Dubs Wavemaker, honoring her leadership expanding educational opportunity and mentoring generations of students across the Central Coast.
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Invest in student success: Donate to the Career Clothing Closet
UCSC Career Success helps students prepare for interviews and internships through its Clothing Closet, offering free professional attire each quarter and welcoming donations to support student success.
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Against all odds, popular math animator Grant Sanderson wooed into the redwoods
Mathematics Department convinced famous YouTuber to speak on campus, enthralling a full house with visualizations of high-dimensional geometry that powers large language models
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Engineered imagination
UC Santa Cruz alumna Lisa Winter (Porter ’09, art) brings an artist’s eye to the arena of combat robotics—evolving from childhood Robot Wars competitor to BattleBots judge and robotics entrepreneur.
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Campus releases second quarter financial summary, with updates on state, federal budgets
I write to share details about our second quarter financial summary, the state budget proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, and the federal funding package approved in February.