It starts with you. It starts here. UC Santa Cruz draws students who plan to change the world—in ways big and small. Whether you’re ready to fill out the application or in the planning stages, find ...

Our voices will define the century About Overview Achievements, Facts, and Figures Leadership Our Mascot: Sammy the Banana Slug Our Residential Colleges ...

For nearly a century, federally supported research and student aid conducted in partnership with U.S. universities has improved lives and livelihoods through breakthroughs in health, medicine, and ...

Santa Cruz is located at the north end of Monterey Bay on the Central California coast, approximately 75 miles south of San Francisco. Getting here is easy since several major highways run to Santa ...

Mirella Ferraz, Electrical and Computer Engineering Linking Microbial Activity, Carbon Cycling, and Bioelectricity: Investigating MFCs as a Tool for Soil Process Insights ...

Michael Loik, Colleen Josephson, Greg Gilbert, and Matt Sparke, Innovations in Monitoring and Control of Powdery Mildew in Forests, Fields and Facilities Climate change is creating challenges for ...

Find contact information for UC Santa Cruz faculty, staff, and students. Search for faculty and postdocs in specific areas of academic expertise. Links to student, faculty, and staff web pages. Note: ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and ...

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the advancement of science and technology and to ...

Campuswide Narinder Kapany Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development Manel Camps, Director, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development Arts Kamil and Talat Hasan ...

Bonnie Garmus (Rachel Carson ’79, aesthetic studies/creative writing), author of the smash-hit novel Lessons in Chemistry, drew on many lessons learned at UC Santa Cruz on her way to finding the ...

Is there anyone who doesn’t love Sammy the Slug? In a counterculture reaction to the fierce athletic competition at most U.S. universities, UC Santa Cruz students chose the Banana Slug as their teams’ ...