Research Programs and Units
Bioinformatics expert David Haussler and other UC Santa Cruz researchers, renowned for their role in the Human Genome Project, are now leaders in the exciting and promising field of cancer genomics.
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 Biomolecular Science & Engineering (CBSE)
- 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 Integrated Spatial Research
- Center for Integrated Water 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 the Study of Pacific War Memories
- Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems
- Center for Visual and Performance Studies
- Center for World History
- Chicano/Latino Research Center (CLRC)
- Innovation and Design Lab
- Institute for Humanities Research (IHR)
- Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP)
- nstitute 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
- Scientific Diving and Boating Safety Program
- Silicon Valley Campus
- Social Practice Arts Research Center
- Social Sciences Research Centers
- 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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