The striking Collared Laughingthrush, or "Halloween bird," served as in inspiration for this research. Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, Monte Neate-Clegg, and the rest of their birdwatching group wait in a ...

UC Santa Cruz is joining UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UCLA and UC Merced in offering undergraduate students a housing guarantee of at least two years. (Photo by Nick Gonzales) UC Santa Cruz ...

The UC Santa Cruz Academic Affairs Division has appointed an associate vice provost to promote public scholarship and support early career faculty mentoring, and reappointed leaders to continue ...

María Ascención Ramos Bracamontes (Merrill ’02, language studies and Latino American and Latino studies) is a certified ...

Kevin Nolting (Porter ’79, aesthetic studies) has spent the majority of his career shaping some of the most beloved animated films ever made. In 2024, Nolting founded Slug 48 at UC Santa Cruz in ...

Esophageal cancer, which is cancer of the swallowing tube, has only a 22.2% five-year relative survival rate, but early ...

Bleak House, a 377,000-word page turner about family intrigue, wicked lawyers, and grinding legal bureaucracy, will be the ...

A puma fitted with a GPS tracking collar rests in a tree in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Photo Credit: Richard King California’s iconic Santa Cruz Mountains are an outdoor recreation wonderland. With a ...

Researchers use DESI’s huge 3D map to study dark energy. Earth is at the center of this map, and every point is a galaxy. Credit: DESI collaboration and KPNO ...

California is about to mark an important milestone in the implementation of a hotly contested economic policy. Two years ago, in April 2024, a statewide, sector-specific minimum wage increase went ...

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 ...