University News & Events

• May 19, 2022

  Invaluable connections through alumni networks: How three slugs came together to help one another

  With the help of UCSC alumni Marcia Wall (Stevenson ‘92, English and American literature) and Frank Marquardt (Stevenson ’92, American studies), alumna Morgan Jones (Stevenson ’04, linguistics and cognitive science) was able to land her dream job in UX design.

• May 19, 2022

  Politics doctoral candidate wins Newcombe Fellowship for research on women’s testimony against sexual violence

  Natali Levin-Schwartz is one of 22 winners of a national fellowship award for scholars working on ethical or religious issues. Her dissertation research focuses on how women resist and organize against sexual violence and the role that testimony plays in that process.

• May 18, 2022

  Stories of UCSC rugby: Leslie Riehl and Pam Krone, the first women on the team

  Alumni Leslie Riehl (Cowell ’78, Mathematics) and Pam Krone (Cowell ’75) were the only women on UCSC’s rugby club in 1974, making their stand as women in the sport years before the women’s rugby club formed in 1979.

• May 18, 2022

  Instrumentation grant will establish UCSC hybrid robotic systems experimental testbed

  A $275K instrumentation funding award from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program will support a multi-university project to create a hybrid robotics system test environment to run verification and validation testing on autonomous systems.

• May 18, 2022

  New findings enable monitoring for harmful toxin in freshwater environments

  Researchers have identified the genes involved in biosynthesis of guanitoxin, a potent neurotoxin produced by some freshwater harmful algal blooms.

• May 18, 2022

  Sloan Foundation funds two-year pilot open source program office at UC Santa Cruz

  The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded Professor Carlos Maltzahn a $695,000 two-year grant aimed at establishing an open source program office (OSPO) that will serve the entire campus community.

• May 17, 2022

  Father of Modern Entrepreneurship to speak during inaugural Entrepreneurial Day at UCSC

  The first annual Entrepreneurial Day at UC Santa Cruz will take place Saturday, May 21. The two-part event will feature a fireside chat with Steve Blank, the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship, followed by a resource fair and networking event with clubs from around campus.

• May 16, 2022

  Former UCSC Chancellor Karl S. Pister dies at age 96

  Former UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Karl S. Pister, who devoted more than 70 years to the University of California, to higher education, and to expanding educational opportunities for students from kindergarten to graduate school, died on Saturday, May 14, at his home in Walnut Creek.

• May 16, 2022

  Grant funding will augment calculus courses to support engineering students’ success

  A seed grant from the state-funded California Learning Lab will be used to help address the equity gap in calculus courses and increase retention for engineering students at UC Santa Cruz.

• May 16, 2022

  A new class in the Arts Division aims to broaden students’ understanding of careers in the creative economy

  Careers in the Creative Economy, a first-time course in the UC Santa Cruz Division of the Arts, has been introducing students to a wide array of professionals in creative fields to help them explore and prepare for arts careers.

• May 16, 2022

  Large Hadron Collider restarts after major upgrades

  UC Santa Cruz physicists have been at the forefront of U.S. participation in the LHC and contributed to a major upgrade of the ATLAS detector during the shutdown.

• May 12, 2022

  UCSC student wins second place at UC systemwide Grad Slam 

  Astronomy and astrophysics Ph.D. candidate Amanda Quirk came in second place in an elite group of ten competitors at the UC systemwide Grad Slam finale on May 6. She pulled off this feat after winning the UCSC Grad Slam in March.

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