Yuanchao Xu will lead this research with the support of one of the most prestigious grants in support of early-career faculty ...

August Lee Stevens’s music career has taken off since her time at UC Santa Cruz. Stevens wrote her first single in her dorm ...

A $2.2 million grant will scale a pioneering environmental DNA-based index, adding a broad biodiversity assessment tool that ...

The new effort will bring together a broad range of voices to create scholarship and policy recommendations for reorienting ...

Commencement 2026 is nearly here! This celebration of student achievement will be a joyous and momentous occasion that will require many hands. Over 5,000 Slugs will cross the stage on June 12–15. We ...

Hayden V. White, professor emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, died at his Santa Cruz home on March 5, 2018, at age 89. He was a 40-year resident of Santa Cruz who ...

UC Santa Cruz’s Forest Fear Lab reveals how the dense upper story of the Amazon carries the cries of frightened birds to ...

New study finds that many of the state’s valuable and most recognizable trees could decline sooner than expected because ...

A model of the a-Heal wearable device. As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A wearable device called “a-Heal,” ...

UC Santa Cruz Library has digitized and made publicly available 3,200 images taken by Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones from ...