By Alison Galloway Campus provost/executive vice chancellor UC Santa Cruz At a recent national conference, organizers reported on a survey of members that asked whether they had ever experienced or witnessed sexual harassment while attending the annual meetings. …

By Dana Frank Professor of history UC Santa Cruz It was still partly daylight as the marchers started showing up at the entrance to the university, and everyone kept telling me the numbers looked smaller this week. Most people carried torches — the bamboo kind sold in the U.S. for…

By David Haussler Professor of biomolecular engineering Director of the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz Fifteen years ago, a scrappy team of computer geeks at UC Santa Cruz assembled the first complete draft of the human genome from DNA data generated by a global consortium, giving humanity its first…

In 2000, two dogged researchers at UC Santa Cruz defied the odds to become the first in the world to assemble the DNA sequence of the human genome — It was May 2000, the race to sequence the human genome was on, and UC Santa Cruz Biomolecular Engineering Professor David Haussler was worried. A private firm named Celera Genomics was beating a path to the prize with a big budget and what was reported to be the most powerful…

Remarks by Chancellor Dean E. McHenry, delivered in 1967 at the first UC Santa Cruz commencement. President Wellman, Doctor Kerr, Regents, Colleagues, Guests, and last and most, Graduates, whose day this really is. Just over twenty months ago — it seems only yesterday — you members of the Pioneer Class…