Office of Research
Welcome to the UC Santa Cruz Office of Research, your partner and point of connection to the innovators and changemakers at UC Santa Cruz.
We offer strategic, customized support for a wide range of research needs, including proposal development, compliance and training, and navigating industry relationships.
We are here to help you advance your work and demonstrate its impact.
Achieving more
$235M
extramural funding in FY23
11.6%
increase in extramural funding
20.2%
increase in Department of Defense funding
26
new patents issued in FY23
Industry and community partnerships
Innovation & Business Engagement Hub
The Innovation & Business Engagement Hub facilitates access to faculty expertise, cutting-edge discoveries, and diverse talent to build long-lasting relationships that address your most pressing business needs.
Center for Coastal Climate Resilience
The Center for Coastal Climate Resilience (CCCR) leverages its deep expertise in research and policy and practice to help communities adapt to climate change. We are expanding the development of solutions that benefit people and nature.
Research news
UC Santa Cruz researchers’ tool creates ‘synthetic’ images of cells for enhanced microscopy analysis
Observing individual cells through microscopes can reveal a range of important cell biological phenomena that frequently play a role in human diseases, but distinguishing single cells from each other and their background is time-consuming. UC Santa Cruz researchers have developed a method to help that uses AI assistance.
Humanities program provides rewarding research experience—and also crucial career prep
Employing Humanities, funded by the Helen & Will Webster Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, provides undergraduate Humanities Humanities Division majors and minors with the opportunity to work with faculty in paid research opportunities that connect their classroom curriculum with hands-on training.
First results from DESI make the most precise measurement of our expanding universe
We now have the largest 3-D map of our cosmos ever created, thanks to a powerful instrument mounted atop a telescope in Arizona with a robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” that look into the night sky. A team of UC Santa Cruz astronomers hold crucial roles in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) international collaboration.
Save the date
May 2-August 4:
Sowing Seeds Exhibition Opening
May 8:
Politics Colloquium: Gerardo L. Munck
May 13, May 24, and May 31:
Bioethics in the 21st Century Speakers
May 16:
Industry Day
May 17:
Graduate Symposium
May 23:
Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution
May 30:
Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor
Our annual report
The Office of Research Annual Report highlights the variety of research and creative work happening at UC Santa Cruz. Learn more about our impact on the community, state, and the world.
See some of what happened in FY23.