UC Santa Cruz: Model Reveals Interactions Between Rivers And Fault Lines

As tectonic plates slip past each other, the rivers that cross fault lines change shape. The shifting ground stretches the river channel ...

UC Santa Cruz: Seymour Center Welcomes New Executive Director

After an extensive search, the UC Santa Cruz Seymour Marine Discovery Center has chosen Jonathan Andres Hicken to be its new executive d ...

UC Santa Cruz: Library's New Community Archiving Program To Broaden Scope Of Regional History Project

The University Library has announced the establishment of a new Community Archiving Program that will build on the foundation of its dec ...

UC Santa Cruz: New Research On Aquaculture Feed Will Test Alternative Ingredients To Help Minimize Water Pollution

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz's ecological aquaculture lab won a three-year, $1 million grant from the Agriculture and Food Research In ...

UC Santa Cruz: Quantitative Ecologist Kai Zhu Wins NSF Funding For Climate Change Research And Education

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Kai Zhu recently won $732,127 in funding through a five-year grant from the National Scienc ...

FAFSA Completions Down In CA: How Santa Cruz Area Schools Compare

See how college aid applications changed for Santa Cruz area high schools.

UC Santa Cruz: Jonathan Fortney Garners Simons Investigator In Astrophysics Award

The Simons Foundation has appointed Jonathan Fortney, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, as a Simons Investigator ...

UC Santa Cruz: Martian South Polar Cap Composition Focus Of New Study

Mars Express, a spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, is the second longest surviving continually active spacecraft ...

UC Santa Cruz: Graduate Student Organizing Community Workshops On The Queer Black Experience

June is for celebrating LGBT stories and experiences, but one woman whose scholarship focuses on the experiences of Black queer individu ...

UC Santa Cruz: Cosmic Dawn Occurred 250 To 350 Million Years After Big Bang

Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, accord ...

UC Santa Cruz: Tracking Data Show How The Quiet Of Pandemic-Era Lockdowns Allowed Pumas To Venture Closer To Urban Areas

New research from the University of California, Santa Cruz shows how regional shelter-in-place orders during the coronavirus pandemic em ...

UC Santa Cruz: New Study Shows How Loss Of Drought-Sensitive Species Could Affect Health Of California Grasslands

A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how the health of a California grassland m ...

UC Santa Cruz: Nathaniel Deutsch's ‘A Fortress In Brooklyn' Reveals Provocative Counter-History Of American Jewry

A new book by UC Santa Cruz history professor Nathaniel Deutsch details how a group of determined Holocaust survivors survived in one of ...

UC Santa Cruz: Work In Social Justice Pushes Recent Grad Toward Career In Medicine

One could be forgiven for thinking Isabella Bullock didn't catch a wink of sleep throughout her entire college career.

UC Santa Cruz: Searching For Answers In The Cosmos

In her sophomore year of high school, Olivia Ross (Kresge '20, astrophysics), winner of this year's prestigious Steck Family Award, lear ...

UC Santa Cruz: Hydrologist Margaret Zimmer Wins NSF CAREER Award

Margaret Zimmer, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award fro ...

UC Santa Cruz: Pulitzer Prize-Winning UCSC Alumnus Jeffrey Stewart Gives Keynote Address At Humanities Spring Awards

UC Santa Cruz alumnus Jeffrey Stewart (Cowell College '71, philosophy) delivered the keynote address at the 2021 Humanities Spring Award ...

UC Santa Cruz: UC Santa Cruz Names Peter F. Biehl As New Vice Provost, Dean Of The Graduate Division

UC Santa Cruz has appointed Peter F. Biehl, professor of anthropology at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York (SUNY), ...

UC Santa Cruz: Doctoral Student Wins Ford Foundation Fellowship For Work On Gender, Race, And Policing

Uriel Serrano, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology and critical race and ethnic studies, recently won a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowsh ...

UC Santa Cruz: Research Partnership Will Highlight STEM Learning In Local Community Garden

A $50,000 grant from the Spencer Foundation will help UC Santa Cruz education researchers document the many types of STEM learning takin ...

UC Santa Cruz: Claire Max To Retire As Director Of UC Observatories

Claire Max, director of the University of California Observatories (UCO) and the Bachmann professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC ...

UC Santa Cruz: Vaishnavi Dornadula

Long before she started designing robots and high-tech "smart jackets" at UC Santa Cruz, Vaishnavi Dornadula loved crafting jewelry and ...

UC Santa Cruz: Simayijiang Xirenayi

Simayijiang "Sherin" Xirenayi grew up in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China, where her family is part of the Uyghur ethnic minorit ...

UC Santa Cruz: Nicholas Hidy

It's tough being a performing arts major when all the performing arts spaces are shut down.

UC Santa Cruz: Sharon Valle Rodriguez

Relocating to New York for her senior year at UC Santa Cruz because of the pandemic wasn't exactly an unprecedented move for Sharon Vall ...

UC Santa Cruz: Biologist Roxanne Beltran Wins Funding From Beckman Young Investigator Program

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has awarded a $600,000 grant to Roxanne Beltran, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary ...

UC Santa Cruz: Social Sciences Division Celebrates Outstanding Students

As spring quarter draws to a close, the Division of Social Sciences is recognizing excellence in scholarship and research through its an ...

UC Santa Cruz: Dead Zones Formed Repeatedly In North Pacific During Warm Climates, Study Finds

An analysis of sediment cores from the Bering Sea has revealed a recurring relationship between warmer climates and abrupt episodes of l ...

UC Santa Cruz: Feminist Studies Ph.D. Student Receives Institute For Citizens & Scholars Fellowship

Claire Urbanski, a Ph.D. candidate in feminist studies, has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow by the Insti ...

UC Santa Cruz: Professor Karen Holl Wins MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair To Support Work On Natural Climate Solutions

This week, campus leadership awarded Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl the MacArthur Foundation Chair at UC Santa Cruz. This fi ...

UC Santa Cruz: Clinic Director Had To Adapt To COVID Challenges

Starting a new job and moving to a new area is hard no matter what, but how about trying that with a broken foot in the middle of a pand ...

UC Santa Cruz: Exhibition Explores The Art Of Creating Comfort In A Year Of Unexpected Hardship And Isolation

Twelve of UCSC's most promising artists will have their work on display in the 35th annual Irwin Scholarship exhibition, beginning June ...

Congratulations, Angel Colin, Soquel High Class Of 2021

Before this year's seniors head on to that next step in their lives, we want to take a moment to let their stars shine here on Patch.

UC Santa Cruz: Growing Heritage And Healing Through Traditional Asian Vegetables

A group of faculty, staff, and alumni from UC Santa Cruz are drawing upon and strengthening their cultural heritage and connection to As ...

UC Santa Cruz: Non-Hallucinogenic Psychedelic Analog Reverses Effects Of Stress In Mouse Study

A novel compound similar in structure to the psychedelic drug ibogaine, but lacking its toxic and hallucinogenic effects, has been found ...

UC Santa Cruz: UC Collaboration Launches First Online Course In The Punjabi Language

The first online Punjabi language course for University of California students that launched earlier this year is a collaboration of sev ...

UC Santa Cruz: ‘We Are What We Eat': Alice Waters To Celebrate New Book In Live Event With Michael Pollan 

On June 1, Penguin Random House will publish We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto, a new book by renowned chef and food activist Al ...

Congratulations, Soquel High Grad Ella Vilozny

Santa Cruz Patch is celebrating this year's seniors for their accomplishments.

UC Santa Cruz: A Shot In The Arm

This story is part of UC Santa Cruz's vaccination advocacy campaign, Arm in Arm, which is aimed at communicating to our campus community ...

UC Santa Cruz: Study Shows Which North American Mammals Live Most Successfully Alongside People

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz led a team of researchers from 30 institutions across North America in analyzing data from 3,212 camera trap ...