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First Faculty Ethics Bowl at UC Santa Cruz to focus on the future
May 10, 2019
What role should thinking about the far future—1,000 years ahead and beyond—play in research on campus? That’s the key question that will be discussed at "Ethics and the Far Future"--the first UC Santa Cruz Faculty Ethics Bowl.
Ancient galaxies reveal new clues about a cosmic transformation
May 8, 2019
The unexpected brightness of early galaxies may explain "reionization," a transformative epoch in the history of the universe.
Astronomers assemble wide view of the evolving universe
May 2, 2019
A team led by UC Santa Cruz astronomer Garth Illingworth used 16 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations to create a new portrait of the distant universe.
Alumni Weekend 2019: Slugs in the mist
April 30, 2019
More than a thousand people, including 560 alumni, converged on the hilly forested campus for Alumni Weekend 2019, complete with thought-provoking lectures, snacks, free Slug Taxis, a fond farewell, and dancing into the night.
Sandra Faber receives American Philosophical Society's Magellanic Premium Medal
April 29, 2019
Faber was honored for her transformative research on galaxy formation and evolution.
UC Santa Cruz hosts summer program on machine learning in astronomy
April 19, 2019
The Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics brings together an international group of scientists and students for a six-week program of learning and research.
Astronomer Natalie Batalha elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 17, 2019
The academy's class of 2019 also includes UCSC alumnus Joe Palca, as well as Michelle Obama and Jonathan Franzen.
Summer programs draw visitors to Lick Observatory for music and stargazing
March 25, 2019
Tickets go on sale in April for the observatory's popular summer evening programs.
Leading the charge for change
March 10, 2019
Alumna Amita Kuttner, a current graduate student in the Physics Department, is running as a Green Party candidate for a seat in Canada’s House of Commons in order to make policy around climate change—a quest sparked by a devastating loss
UCSC to bring art/science LASER series downtown for special evening at Rio Theater
March 1, 2019
On Tuesday, March 12, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz will bring its local LASER—now in its sixth year of quarterly talks on campus—downtown for a special evening at the Rio Theater.
In memoriam: Irene Osterbrock
February 20, 2019
Widow of late Lick Observatory director was tireless UC Santa Cruz advocate, volunteer, supporter of graduate students, and arts patron
