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

New space telescope reveals entire gamma-ray sky [More]

Anthropologist explores plausibility of bulbs and tubers in diet of early human ancestors [More]

Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics [More]

Study shows clumps and streams of dark matter in inner regions of the Milky Way [More]

Two UCSC professors receive prestigious Humboldt Research Awards [More]

Researchers find new mode of gene regulation in mammals [More]