UC Santa Cruz

The university says the large number of admitted students will not lead to a substantial increase of newly enrolled students, but was a strategic way to maximize offers to students from within California.

Three weeks in, the statewide strike of University of California academic workers is creating a complicated situation for undergrads facing final exams.

The statewide strike includes 48,000 workers involved in teaching and instruction, who are demanding higher wages to keep up with the rising cost of living in California

For more than 20 years, the African American Theater Arts Troupe at UC Santa Cruz has provided a place for students of color to find a sense of belonging through performing arts.

An endangered tropical plant known as the corpse flower made a stink this week, as its enormous smelly flower miraculously bloomed after it seemed to die just days earlier.

Natalie Bathala, an astrophysicist at UC Santa Cruz, scans the stars in search of planets, including some that might support life. The recently launched James Webb Space Telescope will provide the clearest picture yet of these “exoplanets” that orbit stars beyond our solar system.

A conversation with oceanographer Gary Griggs about the risk tsunamis pose to the Monterey Bay, and what do when the next one strikes.

California’s underwater kelp forests are in trouble. A combination of climate change and hungry purple sea urchins have decimated these vital forests. But…

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic many businesses have had to cope with closing and reopening as the state goes in and out of various types of…

A group of linguists at UC Santa Cruz are on a mission to save a rarely studied endangered language. Through investigation and collaboration, they hope to…