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]

NASA's Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars [More]

UCSC anthropologist Adrienne Zihlman honored for pioneering research on human evolution [More]

Integrated optical trap holds particles for on-chip analysis [More]

Novel light-sensitive compounds show promise for cancer therapy [More]

Top physicists gather at UCSC to honor Tom Banks and Willy Fischler [More]

New technique improves estimates of pulsar ages [More]