University News & Events

• December 5, 2024

  Mangroves save $855 billion in flood protection globally, new study shows

  Mangroves have been shown to provide $855 billion in flood protection services worldwide, according to a new study from the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz. The research is featured in the World Bank's 2024 edition of The Changing Wealth of Nations.

• December 4, 2024

  UC Santa Cruz innovators recognized for impact at 2024 Santa Cruz Works Titans Awards

  Two UC Santa Cruz faculty members, Richard (Ed) Green and Chris Benner, have been selected as awardees for the eighth annual Santa Cruz Works Titans Awards

• December 3, 2024

  Genomics Institute faculty and staff help create non-profit to center Indigenous Knowledge while accelerating conservation genomics research

  Several current and former UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff have joined with leading experts in the field of conservation genomics to launch Wise Ancestors, a non-profit centering Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities as co-creators of biodiversity conservation projects

• December 3, 2024

  Professor Elliot Anderson named the inaugural director of the new AI lab for the Arts Division

  The Arts Division’s new AI lab on campus, A4, has an inaugural director. Assistant Professor Elliot Anderson, who is also the chair of the Art Department, is using his years of experience bridging art and technology to run the new lab.

• December 2, 2024

  Physics experiment proves patterns in chaos in peculiar quantum realm

  Where do you see patterns in chaos? It has been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an international team co-led by UC Santa Cruz physicist Jairo Velasco, Jr. In the journal Nature, the researchers detail an experiment that confirms a theory first put forth 40 years ago stating that electrons confined in quantum space would move along common paths rather than producing a chaotic jumble of trajectories.

• December 2, 2024

  Magnetic tornadoes create Earth-size spots discovered at Jupiter's poles

  While Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, a team of astronomers have discovered equally large spots at the planet’s north and south poles that appear and disappear seemingly at random.

• November 27, 2024

  California court affirms campus understanding of water service agreements

  California’s Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that agreements signed in 1962 and 1965 by the City of Santa Cruz and UC Board of Regents require that the city provide water service to all parts of the residential campus.

• November 26, 2024

  UC Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay Aquarium lead collaboration on kelp conservation

  In May 2024, UC Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay Aquarium convened a workshop aimed at bridging the gap between scientific research and the practical application of evolutionary resilience concepts for kelp.

• November 26, 2024

  Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Marilynne Robinson to deliver 2024 Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture

  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, renowned for her deeply reflective explorations of faith, humanity, and the divine, will deliver this year’s Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture on Dec. 3 at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz.

• November 26, 2024

  Giving Day 2024 raises $1.3 million with record number of donors

  Giving Day 2024 wraps up with over $1.3 million raised to support students across 185 project teams with a record number of donors. Formula Slug raised the most money, had the largest number of donors, and landed five challenge wins.

• November 25, 2024

  24 in 2024: list of most highly cited researchers includes UC Santa Cruz scientists and engineers

  In a notable recognition of scholarly achievement, 24 scientists and engineers from UC Santa Cruz have earned a spot on the 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list, recently unveiled by Clarivate.

• November 22, 2024

  2024 iGEM team’s foundational science project tackles infant formula affordability

  The 2024 UC Santa Cruz iGEM team won a silver medal at the international Jamboree for a project focused on addressing the high cost of infant formula through a foundational synthetic biology approach.

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