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  • Transition to college is subject of UC study

    Like moving or taking a new job, the transition to college is a major change, and the University of California is conducting an in-depth study of first-year college students to learn more about the challenges and rewards that accompany the milestone. UC Santa Cruz team conducts in-depth study of first-year students “The university has put…

  • New studies reveal connections between oceanographic processes and rockfish populations

    More than 60 species of rockfish live along the U.S. West Coast, including about 10 commercially important species (often sold as red snapper) that inhabit the shallow rocky reefs and kelp beds of the California coast. Like most marine fish, rockfish produce larval young that spend the first few months of their lives drifting about…

  • UCSC literature professor links Santa Cruz to international theater event for peace

    On March 3, Santa Cruz will join hundreds of cities around the world in hosting a staged reading of Aristophanes’ ancient Greek antiwar comedy Lysistrata. The local play reading is part of the international Lysistrata Project, the first-ever worldwide theater event for peace. As of mid-February, 380 readings have been scheduled in 31 countries to…

  • Gary Novack selected as UC alumni regent by UCSC Alumni Association

    Gary Novack’s loyalties run deep. He still has his student ID card from his days as an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1970 to 1973. And when he returned to UCSC this month, an old alumni volunteer name badge was in his pocket. Those loyalties will be put to good use…

  • Folksinger Rosalie Sorrels to give free concert at UC Santa Cruz Library

    Folksinger, storyteller, and social activist Rosalie Sorrels will present a free public concert, Friday, February 14, at 4:30 p.m. at the UC Santa Cruz Library’s Special Collections. Social activist will donate peace quilt to archives in Special Collections During the event, Sorrels will officially present the Peace Quilt […]

  • UC Santa Cruz psychologist shares prize for work on intergroup relations

    For the second time in his career, social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew has received the prestigious Gordon Allport Award in recognition of his work on intergroup relations. He shares the award with his former graduate student, Linda R. Tropp, now an assistant professor of psychology at Boston College. The recipients of the 2002-03 Gordon Allport Award…

  • Lecture promises ‘behind the headlines’ look at Keiko the whale

    Keiko the killer whale has been making headlines since the early 1990s, when he starred in the popular Free Willy movies. For a look behind the headlines at the effort to return Keiko to the wild, the public is invited to a talk at UCSC’s Long Marine Laboratory by Charles Vinick, executive vice president of…

  • UC Santa Cruz offers resources to students displaced by off-campus fire

    UC Santa Cruz officials are encouraging students displaced by a fire in an off-campus co-op on Sunday to use university resources to secure replacement housing. In addition, they are putting the word out to displaced students to attend a meeting that will take place Tuesday (February 4). An estimated 30 UCSC students were living in…

  • Anthropologist pens an artful natural history of the Amazon

    With his new book In Amazonia: A Natural History, anthropologist Hugh Raffles has set a new standard for the genre of natural history, artfully bringing to life the people, history, and science of this highly romanticized region. In engaging prose, Raffles traces the mystique of the Amazon back to 16th-century explorers and describes how it…

  • UC Santa Cruz dean honored by social psychologists

    Martin Chemers, a professor of psychology and dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will be honored by the members of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) at their annual meeting on Feb. 6, 2003. Chemers is being recognized for his service to the 3,700-member organization,…

  • Volcanic seamounts siphon ocean water through the seafloor–researchers trace flow over long distances

    Researchers have discovered a pair of seamounts on the ocean floor that serve as inflow and outflow points for a vast plumbing system that circulates water through the seafloor. The seamounts are separated by more than 30 miles (52 kilometers). “One big underwater volcano is sucking in seawater, and the water flows north through the…

  • UC Santa Cruz biodiversity workshop focuses on Santa Lucia Mountains

    The Santa Lucia Range, rising steeply from California’s Big Sur coast, is one of the most environmentally complex and biologically rich areas of the state. An all-day workshop held last week at the University of California, Santa Cruz, brought together representatives of the many governmental and nongovernmental agencies, private groups, and university researchers studying this…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025