Research Programs and Units
In addition to individual research projects, UC Santa Cruz people are involved in 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 10-campus University of California system and beyond.
At UCSC, formal research activities or research groups include the following:
- Center for Adaptive Optics (CfAO)
- Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS)
- Center for Analytical Finance
- Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC)
- Center for Cultural Studies
- Center for Educational Research in the Interest of Underserved Students (CERIUS)
- Center for Emerging Worlds
- Center for Force Majeure Studies
- Center for Games and Playable Media (CGPM)
- Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)
- Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning
- Center for Integrated Spatial Research
- Center for Jewish Studies
- Center for Labor Studies
- Center for Mediterranean Studies / Mediterranean Seminar
- Center for Molecular Biology of RNA
- Center for Research on Equity and Collaborative Evaluation (CRECE)
- Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS)
- Center for Research in Storage Systems (CRSS)
- Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture, and Development (CenTREAD)
- Center for Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences (CSASS)
- Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems
- Center for Visual and Performance Studies
- Center for World History
- Chemical Screening Center
- Common Ground Center at Kresge College
- Innovation and Design Lab
- Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells
- Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
- Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators (ISEE)
- Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS)
- Satyajit Ray Film and Study Collection (Ray FASC)
- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP)
- Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group (SCPRBG)
- Santa Cruz Puma Project
- Science and Justice Research Center
- Silicon Valley Campus
- Social Practice Arts Research Center
- Social Sciences Research Centers
- Student Success Evaluation and Research Center
- UC Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick)
- UC Santa Cruz Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance
- UC Santa Cruz Genome Sequencing Center
- UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
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