Research That Makes A Difference

UC Santa Cruz faculty have made significant contributions to the body of research that has earned the University of California the ranking as the foremost public research institution in the world. In the process, they are demonstrating that cutting-edge research and high-quality teaching are mutually supportive.

Wentai Liu (pictured above) has been working on an artificial retina to restore vision to the blind. [More]

HIGHLIGHTS

Research Programs and Units

UCSC people are engaged in a large number of activities in which the research is conducted in affiliation with a program, center, or organization. [More]

Undergraduate Research

UCSC offers undergraduates many ways to engage in research activities, either by participating in the ongoing projects of the faculty or by developing their own projects under faculty supervision. [More]

HEADLINES

Information about biomedical research at UCSC [More]

Rare Hawaiian monk seal brought to Long Marine Lab for study and treatment [More]

New Hubble treasury project to survey first third of cosmic time [More]

New York Times features story on historical impact of UCSC's Grateful Dead Archive [More]

Researchers to explore hidden world of life beneath seafloor [More]

Massive planet is being torn apart by its own tides [More]

Genome analysis of marine microbe reveals a metabolic minimalist [More]