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Innovative Women in Climate & Tech

On January 30, UC Santa Cruz hosted an evening with women entrepreneurs, funders, and founders to discuss innovation and opportunities to create change.

This was a collaboration between the Innovation & Business Engagement Hub, QB3 and the Genomics Institute.

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UC Santa Cruz researchers receive grants for early-stage technology innovations

The Innovation Catalyst Grant program awarded targeted funding to four faculty members to commercially validate their technologies.

The 2023 recipients of the Chancellor's Innovation Impact Awards.

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Chancellor’s innovation awards honor excellence in research, creativity

UC Santa Cruz announced the recipients of the 2023 Chancellor’s Innovation Impact awards, recognizing the outstanding research and creativity taking place across the university. The awards included Innovator of the Year, Lifetime Achievement in Innovation, and Community Changemaker.

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NSF names campus an Innovation Corps Hub

UC Santa Cruz is one of eight partner institutions in the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps Hub for the Northwest Region.

Chancellor Cynthia Larive, Vice Chancellor for Research John MacMillan, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Business Engagement Ryan Sharp highlighted the campus's innovation and entrepenurship intitaitves.

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Campus leaders showcase innovation, entrepreneurship efforts to special Regents committee

UCSC’s research impact has been on a strong upward trajectory, with a roughly 63 percent increase in extramural funding over the past five years

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Cell biologist discovers two proteins are key to proper transfer of genetic material
April 9, 2025
The biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on two key proteins that choreograph the delicate dance between chromosomes when sexual-reproduction cells divide.
UC Santa Cruz researchers honored in Hollywood style at Breakthrough Prize ceremony
April 8, 2025
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Silicon Valley luminaries including the tech icons behind Google and Facebook, named UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Rebecca Jensen-Clem and former postdoctoral researcher Maaike van Kooten as co-recipients of the early-career New Horizons in Physics Prize.
Astronomy Ph.D. candidate researching mysteries of sub-Neptune planets wins fellowship
March 27, 2025
UC Santa Cruz astronomy Ph.D. candidate Sagnick Mukherjee has received one of the most sought-after postdoctoral awards in the field: the prestigious 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. In its March 27 announcement, the awarding Heising-Simons Foundation named Mukherjee one of eight new fellows, recognizing them as exceptional postdoctoral scientists who deserve support to continue their research […]
Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members named 2024 AAAS fellows
March 27, 2025
Three UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been named new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS awarded the lifetime honor to professors David Deamer, Theodore Holman, and Raphael Kudela on March 27.
Long-accepted theory explaining the nature of our universe may need updating, new analysis indicates
March 19, 2025
The standard model of how the universe works involves the widely accepted theory that dark energy is a fundamental constant of nature that drives the accelerating expansion of the universe. But a new analysis announced today by the international Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration raises the possibility that this theory may need to be […]
Forum captures urgency to use ecosystems now to keep people safe from looming natural disasters
March 12, 2025
The National Practice Forum on Nature-Based Solutions was held in Irvine on February 4 and 5, and sponsored by UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR). The forum drew over 500 attendees from around the country to discuss how our ecosystems can protect us from natural disasters.
Research Corporation for Science Advancement honors Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
March 12, 2025
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz has been named a recipient of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s (RCSA) Robert Holland Jr. Award, which honors outstanding contributions to research, leadership, and mentorship in the sciences.
Whale waste helps health of oceans by funneling nutrients to the tropics, new study shows
March 11, 2025
New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, supporting the health of tropical ecosystems and fish. UC Santa Cruz professors Dan Costa and Ari Friedlaender contributed their marine-mammal expertise to the study, which was published on March 10 in the journal Nature Communications.