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Preserving Habitat. Expanding Opportunity.

To advance conservation, teaching, and research, UC Santa Cruz and The Conservation Fund (TCF) announced a collaboration that will conserve more than 200 acres of currently privately held land ...
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Pulitzer Prize recipients

With a reputation for teaching students to ask the hard questions, it’s not surprising that UC Santa Cruz is home to 11 winners of 13 Pulitzer Prizes. Their writing has given voice to victims and ...
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Crown College opens

Crown College opens, with facilities built through a partnership of public funds and a gift from the Crown Zellerbach Foundation. Professor of biological sciences Kenneth V. Thimann is the founding ...
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Letter from foundation chair

For the past 50 years, the UC Santa Cruz Foundation has been a steadfast partner in expanding the university’s impact. Your financial contributions have enabled the ...
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Address and phone

Find UC Santa Cruz's address and phone number for inquiries or correspondence.
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Annual Report

UC Santa Cruz continues on its remarkable trajectory. Over our nearly 60-year history, we have established a track record of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, high-level teaching, ...
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Milestone: 500

July 31, 2024 Trung Tran Graduate student enrollment reaches 500.
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2025 Applications, Deadline May 2

Deadline to apply is Friday, May 2, 2025 at 5 p.m. Awards will be announced by June 15. Application requirements Applicant Names, Division, Department, titles Project Title (175 characters, including ...
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Regents establish University of California Observatories

Regents establish University of California Observatories (UCO) at Santa Cruz to manage both Lick Observatory and UC’s component of the new Keck Observatory in Hawaii, where the world’s largest optical ...
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Learning from a master

Acclaimed performer and writer the late Spalding Gray teaches a summer session course at UCSC. The experience helps spark his interest in dramatic monologue.
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Huffman coding

Founding computer science department faculty member, David Huffman, arrives at UCSC. As an MIT graduate student in 1952, Huffman developed a data compression scheme called Huffman coding—which is now ...
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Creating a beacon for students

As a member of UCSC’s pioneering class in 1965, Bill Dickinson (Cowell ’68, philosophy) is considered to be the first former foster youth to attend the university. Over three decades later, he founded ...