University News & Events

• January 20, 2022

  National Endowment for the Arts award to support 'Surge,' an afrofuturism festival

  Events will take place throughout the academic year, culminating in a month-long festival in May 2022 with live music concerts and dance performances.

• January 20, 2022

  Rebecca Hernandez to serve as campus's first community archivist

  Rebecca Hernandez, who previous served as the director of the American Indian Resource Center, will seek out partnerships with community organizations and leaders to support the preservation of community history, with a particular focus on reaching out to traditionally underrepresented communities.

• January 20, 2022

  Grant supports project to digitize, preserve materials at Biblioteca Amazónica

  The project will concentrate its efforts on those items within the archives that are unique to the Biblioteca Amazónica and not available elsewhere. One important inclusion will be back issues of three local newspapers — El Eco, La Razón, and El Oriente — that have never been fully digitized before.

• January 20, 2022

  UC Santa Cruz receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant to connect studies of humanities, engineering

  UC Santa Cruz will create a new Certificate in the Humanities introducing students enrolled in the Baskin School of Engineering to humanities disciplines aimed to help them better understand the social and cultural impacts of technological change.

• January 14, 2022

  Computer engineer Scott Beamer wins NSF CAREER Award

  Scott Beamer, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the NSF to support his work on verifiable computation.

• January 13, 2022

  Economics professor takes deep dive into challenges and opportunities of climate change

  The widespread impacts of climate change raise urgent and critical questions.

• January 13, 2022

  Appetite for entrepreneurship leads alum to launch successful meal-prep business

  Economics alumnus Andy Sartori, a Sacramento Business Journal 40 under 40 honoree, helps people eat with purpose.

• January 13, 2022

  Merrill College courses offer opportunity to learn about Africa, develop global connections

  Merrill is offering two Global Classrooms, courses developed with the support of the Global Engagement Division that involve online collaboration between students from UCSC and the Co-Operative University of Kenya.

• January 11, 2022

  MaNGA team releases largest-ever collection of 3D maps of nearby galaxies

  The release of the complete dataset of 10,000 galaxies observed by the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) project makes MaNGA the largest galaxy survey of its kind.

• January 10, 2022

  Simulated image shows how NASA’s Roman could expand on Hubble’s deepest view

  The Roman Space Telescope will have the power to perform an observation similar to the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, but on a much larger scale.

• January 10, 2022

  UCSC selects Akirah J. Bradley-Armstrong as vice chancellor for Student Affairs and Success

  Akirah Bradley-Armstrong, who comes to campus from the University of Colorado Boulder, is a dedicated student affairs professional with 17 years of experience in the field.

• January 6, 2022

  Astronomers witness the explosive end of a dying star

  The Young Supernova Experiment transient survey observed a red supergiant during its final 130 days leading up to a supernova explosion.

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