University News & Events

• August 10, 2022

  Incoming UC Santa Cruz class exemplifies academic excellence and diversity

  UC Santa Cruz anticipates welcoming approximately 5,100 new Banana Slugs this fall, concluding an admissions cycle that reflected increased interest in the campus. Campus leaders are carefully managing student enrollment and working to provide more on-campus housing for students because of a statewide housing crisis that is particularly difficult in Santa Cruz.

• August 8, 2022

  Locally supportive climates may do little to aid mental health for LGBTQ+ youth amidst broader societal stigma

  New research shows little difference in mental health outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth between some of California's most and least supportive communities for sexual and gender diversity. The findings also indicate factors that may contribute to this trend.

• August 5, 2022

  With a focus on student success and research impact, UC President Michael V. Drake visits UC Santa Cruz

  The daylong visit included meetings with faculty, staff, and students to learn more about research, teaching, and learning at UC Santa Cruz—and the important work that supports the university’s mission as a Hispanic-Serving research university centered on student success.

• August 4, 2022

  Dickens Universe returns to campus

  The Dickens Universe, now in its 41st year, returned to campus in late July after two years in the virtual realm. The conference turned UCSC into a bustling community of scholars, students, and community members who socialized at Victorian teas, talked about books, and wrapped up their evenings with “post-prandial potations.”

• August 3, 2022

  New research explores opportunities for eliminating equity gaps in computer science gateway courses

  New research shows how addressing “gateways within gateway courses,” specific factors that hold able students back from success in introductory courses, may provide a path forward for closing equity gaps for students pursuing engineering degrees.

• August 2, 2022

  UCSC student named one of 50 top hackers of 2022

  Rising second-year computer science: computer game design student Mansi Saini has been recognized by Major League Hacking for outstanding contributions to the hackathon community.

• July 29, 2022

  New book traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border

  In her new book, Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Felicity Amaya Schaeffer draws stunning connections between indigenous ways of life and relationships to the land with modern-day, militaristic border surveillance technologies.

• July 29, 2022

  As alumni regent, Art Torres advocated for access, diversity in higher education

  Art Torres (Stevenson, ’68, government) worked to support the University of California in advancing the diversity of its student body while serving a two-year term as the alumni representative on the UC Board of Regents.

• July 28, 2022

  UC Santa Cruz teams with TiE Global to help entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life

  UC Santa Cruz and TiE Global are establishing the Destination Silicon Valley program to leverage the Silicon Valley presence of both organizations and create new learning opportunities for university-based entrepreneurs from across the world, including University of California students and innovators, and others from TiE’s 59 chapters.

• July 28, 2022

  Data from elephant seals reveal new features of marine heatwave ‘the Blob’

  Instruments carried by migrating elephant seals measured deep warm-water anomalies that lasted much longer than the surface warming.

• July 25, 2022

  Steve Kang celebrates a career of seizing challenges

  As the first in his family to graduate college and in taking on positions as the second dean of the Baskin School of Engineering and chancellor of UC Merced, Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang has always been someone ready and willing to take on challenges. 

• July 22, 2022

  Measuring the universe with star-shattering explosions

  An international team of scientists has analyzed archive data for powerful cosmic explosions from the deaths of stars and found a new way to measure distances in the distant universe.

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