Research Programs & Units
Research at Santa Cruz is thriving, facilities are excellent, and the amount of external funding received for research continues to grow. In addition to their individual research projects, faculty are involved in organized research on various scales, from small focused activities within academic divisions, to large research units, some with campuswide scope and others with wider connections to the whole 10-campus University of California system. Individual research programs and facilities are listed below.
Arboretum
Arts Instructional Computing Laboratories
Arts Research Institute
Baskin School of Engineering Computer Facilities
California Carlyle Edition
Center for Adaptive Optics (CfAO)
Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS)
Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering (CBSE)
Center for Cultural Studies
Center for Global, International & Regional Studies (CGIRS)
Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS)
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
Center for Integrated Water Research
Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community (CJTC)
Center for Molecular Biology of RNA
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE)
Chicano/Latino Research Center (CLRC)
Dickens Project
Educational Partnership Center (EPC)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Laboratory
Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (IAFR)
Institute for Humanities Research (IHR)
Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP)
Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS)
Linguistics Research Center (LRC)
Monterey Bay Education, Science, and Technology Center (MBEST)
Natural Reserve System (NRS)
New Teacher Center (NTC)
Satayajit Ray Film and Study Collection (Ray FASC)
Santa Cruz Center for International Economics (SCCIE)
Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)
Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPRBG)
Scientific Diving and Boating Safety Program
Social Sciences Media Laboratory
STEPS (Science, Technology, Engineering, Policy, and Society) Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research
University Affiliated Research Center
University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick)
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