Since graduating from UC Santa Cruz, Jessica Lum (Rachel Carson '09, environmental studies and economics) has built a career ...

The blue oak, an iconic tree found only in California and seen across the state’s inland ranges and hills, is far more vulnerable to climate change than is reflected by its current status on the ...

UC Presidential Chair Magy Seif El-Nasr shares insights on how AI has shaped academic publishing, and her observations on an ...

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,” ...

Students walk on the UCSC campus during Spring. The Spring Give—an 11 day fundraising campaign— wrapped up on Tuesday, May 20, with over $140,000 raised by over 1750 donors. All funds raised during ...

Long before Disney turned Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid into global blockbusters, European writers, editors, and folklorists captivated readers with their fairy-tale collections as early ...

One of the biggest mysteries of evolution is how species first developed complex vision. Jellyfish are helping scientists solve this puzzle, as the group has independently evolved eyes at least nine ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Finnegan (Cowell, ‘74, Literature), this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Humanities Undergraduate Alumni Award, spoke of the need for self-reinvention, ...

of desire, de Lauretis taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from the mid-1980s until her retirement in 2008 as Distinguished Professor Emerita.

A group of farmworkers speak with CBDIO team members in Monterey County. Salinas Valley, known as the “salad bowl of the world,” provides food for millions of people and powers a multi-billion dollar ...

Students with the Resource Recovery Team in the Grounds Department and Sustainability Office performing a waste audit to determine divertable materials from McHenry Library. Princeton Review has ...

micha cárdenas, a professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, used art to sound the warning about global climate tipping points in a high-profile artwork The Probability Engine: Atlantic Overturning.