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Engineering student wins NVIDIA Agents for Impact Hackathon
16+ hour, 12+ min ago (460+ words) Preet Karia built an AI-powered tool to turn physics notes into 3D visualizations. Engineering student Preet Karia with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. Preet Karia, a second-year robotics and computer science engineering student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, claimed first…...
Long days, snacks, and scan-a-thons: student archivists stepped up to save a treasure trove of Okinawan-American memories
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (681+ words) Undergraduates working for OMI had long "scan-a-thons" in a small conference room in the Humanities building. These undergraduates are working for the Okinawa Memories Initiative (OMI), a public history research project that is housed in and sponsored by The Humanities…...
New oral history chronicles life and legacy of sociologist John Brown Childs
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (264+ words) New oral history chronicles life and legacy of sociologist John Brown Childs'UC Santa Cruz - News A newly published oral history documents the life, scholarship, and community engagement of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology John Brown Childs, whose work has centered…...
Finding direction through creativity: The Arts Division's Find Your Path! creates career pathways for students
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (217+ words) Arts Division students are invited to presentations and networking sessions that will guide them on how to pursue a successful career. By Maureen Dixon Harrison During the second day, students will be able to engage with career experts in a…...
UC Santa Cruz trio takes third at 2026 Mistral AI hackathon with cybersecurity platform
1+ week, 1+ day ago (539+ words) UC Santa Cruz team from left to right: Anthony Lamas, Ivan Severinov, and Daniel Perlove. A team of UC Santa Cruz students and an alumnus earned third place at the 2026 Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon in San Francisco for developing an…...
Exploring the impacts of California’s minimum wage for fast food workers
2+ week, 1+ day ago (431+ words) Workers at franchised fast food restaurants got a big pay bump about two years ago. A UC Santa Cruz economics researcher suggests that may have come with a side of unintended consequences. By Allison Arteaga Soergel California is about to…...
Arts & Culture Archives
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (336+ words) This year's Humanities EXPLORE Program fellows are adventurous and ambitious, transcribing 300-year'old texts, helping to revitalize forgotten languages, exploring archives, and learning from faculty mentors. This winter, two fellows were given film cameras to preserve and share their experiences of…...
With fastest solver and fourth place for D1 schools, UC Santa Cruz finishes strong at 2025 Codebreaker Challenge
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (270+ words) The challenge tasks students to develop their reverse engineering and cryptography skills using a realistic cybersecurity scenario Image by the National Security Agency Engineering students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, put up another strong finish at the National…...
Parking will be limited in Hahn Lot (Lot 101) from April 1 – 10
3+ week, 11+ hour ago (229+ words) Parking will be limited in Hahn Lot (Lot 101) from April 1 " 10UC Santa Cruz - News UC Santa Cruz will welcome more than 5,000 admitted students and their families to campus between April 1 and April 10 for admitted student programs as they consider saying "Yes…...
Engineered imagination
4+ week, 1+ day ago (872+ words) UC Santa Cruz alumna Lisa Winter (Porter "09, art) brings an artist"s eye to the arena of combat robotics'evolving from childhood Robot Wars competitor to BattleBots judge and robotics entrepreneur. UC Santa Cruz alumna Lisa Winter (front right) is a…...