![New state initiative selects UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project](/2015/08/images/haussler-ez-thumb.jpg) | New state initiative selects UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project The Genomics Institute's California Kids Cancer Comparison project has received $1.2 million from California's Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine. |
![New Presidential Chair will support Dickens Project and literature studies](/2015/07/images/dickens-thumb.jpg) | New Presidential Chair will support Dickens Project and literature studies Campus receives a $500,000 gift, plus matching funds from the UC Regents, to establish a $1 million Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair. |
![Undergraduate research opportunities blossom during summer](/2015/07/images/ashley-guinevere-thumb.jpg) | Undergraduate research opportunities blossom during summer Transfer student Guinevere Ashley is finding meaning and purpose in biomedical sciences research this summer while working in a campus lab. |
![Alumnus Brannon Braga wins Peabody award for ‘Cosmos’](/2015/07/images/braga-thumb.jpg) | Alumnus Brannon Braga wins Peabody award for ‘Cosmos’ Film and digital media grad ('90) served as executive producer and director for the re-launch of 'Cosmos,' the iconic 1980 PBS miniseries with Carl Sagan. |