UC Santa Cruz News

Santa Cruz police believe they have foiled a high stakes heist by arresting the man they say was the mastermind behind it.

Messiah Lutheran Church and UCSC Lutheran Campus Ministry are working in collaboration for The World's Banquet, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 31, on the Messiah Lutheran Church campus.

Researchers and archivists from University of California are asking for help in transcribing field notes and identifying insect specimens dating back over 100 years.

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About 90 people gathered in the courtyard of the Museum of Art & History Wednesday to brainstorm how to apply lessons learned from Boulder and Fort Collins, Colo., two communities known as great places to live, work and start a business.

QB3 associate director Douglas Crawford, in the under-construction QB3@953: Helping life sciences startups through the 'valley of death.' A unique real estate partnership including the University of California's QB3 institute will expand San Francisco's amount of biotech incubator space by 50 percent, providing enough room for 20 to 30 young ... (more)

A home computer isn't going to improve a child's performance at school - but it also isn't likely to hurt it.

Study Finds Correlation Between Fiscal Conservatism And Big Biceps : Does physical strength lead to conservative beliefs? Conducted by researchers at Denmark's Aarhus University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, the study surveyed subjects by upper-body strength, socioeconomic status, and then compared those with the subject's response ... (more)

After gutting the interior, exposing the original brick and beams, and installing a new kitchen, Hall agreed to help find a new owner for the space.

Computer scientists, academics, and other technology professionals flocked to Rio last week for the 19th annual WWW2013 conference at the Windsor Barra Conference Center in Barra da Tijuca.

Software engineer, lawyer and professional golfer were a few of the professions that seventh-grade students offered up Tuesday while visiting UC Santa Cruz.

Staying up-to-date has never been simpler. Sign up for the free GenePool newsletter today! A new study in the journal Psychological Science took a look at the relationship between physical strength and political beliefs.

While eating quesadillas stuffed with vegetables and mixing smoothies with bike-powered blenders may seem satisfying enough, a healthy lunch was only the beginning for teens at the UC Santa Cruz farm on Monday.

Over 20 demos of some of the most innovative game designs were on display during the 11th annual Experimental Gameplay Workshop, as shown in this free GDC 2013 video.

In an homage to the original Kings Market, more than 50 people scaled scaffolds and wielded paintbrushes on Saturday to paint a mural at the Kings Village Shopping Center.

Students and parents from four different counties crowded in the lobby of UC Santa Cruz's Cowell College Saturday afternoon to watch middle school kids from Discovery Charter School demonstrate 3-D printing.

Throughout my four years in Santa Cruz, I have rented four different houses. All have been old, inefficient, and owned by absentee landlords.

Not a single member of the California Legislature earned an A from the tough graders at the University of California Student Association, who released their first-ever legislative report card at Wednesday's regents meeting.

Five months after a 340-ton rock officially became part of Michael Heizer's massive Levitated Mass sculpture on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, curator Rita Gonzalez installed the much smaller Lost Line sculpture on the third floor of the museum's Broad Contemporary building.

Former Santa Cruz Mayor Jane Weed-Pomerantz will share her experiences serving as a delegate to the 57th United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women at the May 21 meeting of the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom.