UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences
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| Type | Public research university |
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| Established | 1965 |
Parent institution | University of California UC Santa Cruz |
| Dean | Paul L. Koch (since 2011)[1] |
Academic staff | 480[2] 180 faculty 300 researchers |
Administrative staff | 350 |
| Students | 5,400 4,800 undergraduates 600 postgraduates |
| Location | , , |
| Affiliations | UCO, SCIPP, IMS, NASA, NOAA, NIH, DOE, NSF |
| Website | science.ucsc.edu |
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences (UC Santa Cruz Science) is the largest of five academic divisions at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2][3][4] It is a world-leading public research university with three international research institutes, nine departments, and three professional programs that offer 48 bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree programs.[2] UC Santa Cruz Science accounts for 55% of the university's annual research and development expenditures, 25% of the student body, and 26% of the university's alumni to date.[2][3] As of 2019, 23 faculty of the division are members of the National Academy of Sciences.[2]
History[edit]
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences was established in 1965. Initially established as the Division of Natural Sciences, it was controversially renamed in 2010 to better reflect the wide array of scientific disciplines administered by the division.[5]
The division’s founding dean, and the university's founding provost of Crown College, was plant physiologist Kenneth V. Thimann (1904–1997). Thimann came to UC Santa Cruz in 1965 with the task “to build the campus’s science faculty.”[6] He was the first faculty member at UC Santa Cruz, who was a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (and chairman of its botany section).[6] As noted in the university’s Regional History Project deposit on Thimann, “Certainly the early and distinguished development of the natural science faculty at UCSC was due to him. The scientists he recruited created what has become in only three decades one of the country’s most distinguished group of science departments at a public university.”[6]
Academics[edit]
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences comprises nine academic departments and three professional programs that offer 48 bachelor, masters, and doctoral degree programs and graduate training tracks.[2]
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Departments[7]
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Professional Programs[7]
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Degree Programs[8]
| Degrees Offered | Min. | B.A. | B.S. | M.A. | M.S. | Ph.D. | Other |
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| Applied Physics | ✓ | ||||||
| Astronomy & Astrophysics | ✓ | ||||||
| Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | ✓ | ||||||
| Biology | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Chemistry | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Chemical Biology, Biochemistry, & Biophysics | ✓ | ||||||
| Coastal Science & Policy | ✓ | Designated Emphasis (D.E.) | |||||
| Earth Science & Anthropology | ✓ | ||||||
| Earth Sciences | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Ecology & Evolution | ✓ | ||||||
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Environmental Sciences | ✓ | ||||||
| Human Biology | ✓ | ||||||
| Marine Biology | ✓ | ||||||
| Mathematics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4+1 B.A./M.A. | ||
| Microbial Biology & Pathogenesis | ✓ | ||||||
| Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology | ✓ | ✓ | 4+1 B.S./M.S. | ||||
| Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Neuroscience | ✓ | ||||||
| Ocean Sciences | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Physics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4+1 B.S./M.S. | ||
| Physics (Astrophysics) | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
| Plant Sciences | ✓ | ||||||
| Science Communication | ✓ | ||||||
| Science Education | ✓ |
Research[edit]
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences has more than 150 research labs, centers, and institutes.[9] The research groups explore the processes that mold the natural world — from the fundamental forces of nature and biochemical interactions, to biological evolution and the flow of energy through the oceans, atmosphere, and solid earth, to the forces that shape planets, galaxies, and the universe. Specifically, UC Santa Cruz Science has an outsized impact in three areas:[9]
- Solid Earth & Cosmos (astrophysics, high energy physics, geophysics, planetary science): The division's efforts in theory, observation, and instrumentation are accelerated by the UC Observatories headquarters on campus and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics.
- Environmental Science (evolution, ecology, conservation, oceanography, climate change, water): The Institute of Marine Sciences and extensive government agency and NGO partnerships accelerate the division's research output.
- Biomedical Science (RNA biology, infectious diseases, drug discovery, stem cells, cancer, neuroscience): The division's efforts to influence next generation medicine is laboratory-based, frequently reliant on clinical collaborations, and increasingly driven by genomics and bioinformatics.
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Land & Facilities[edit]
Science Hill
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences is primarily located in Coastal Redwood forests on “Science Hill” of the UC Santa Cruz Main Campus. Science Hill is centered in the heart of the campus and is comprised of eleven primary research and academic facilities:
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Coastal Science Campus
Managed by the division, the 100-acre UC Santa Cruz Coastal Science Campus is located on an oceanfront bluff of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary coastline, only ten minutes from the UC Santa Cruz main campus. The Coastal Science Campus consists of world-renowned research facilities, institutions, and a marine science education center with direct access to seawater via a 1,000 gallons per minute pumping system.[10]
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Observatories
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences is the headquarters and managing partner of the UC Observatories (UCO). UCO manages and is an operating partner of four observatories, providing UC Santa Cruz researchers and students with unparalleled access to state-of-the-art instrument and data reduction technology.[11]
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Natural Reserve System
UC Santa Cruz Science boasts a 10,000-acre Natural Reserve System composed of five reserves that service long-term research, conservation, and education. The reserves are a part of the University of California Natural Reserve System. The five reserves ring the Monterey Bay along the National Marine Sanctuary, extending from the San Francisco Peninsula to Big Sur.[12] This wide range of habitats, from fog-enshrouded redwood forest to maritime chaparral, provide an unparalleled natural laboratory for marine and terrestrial research and serve as study sites for university scientists and students.[12]
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Westside Research Park
The Westside Research Park is located across from Natural Bridges State Beach, just ten minutes from the UC Santa Cruz main campus. UC Santa Cruz Science hosts its Materials Science & Engineering Initiative, particle physics labs, and quantum computing research. The Materials Science & Engineering Initiative brings together experts in materials synthesis, characterization, and theoretical modelling to accelerate the fundamental knowledge and workforce training required to develop new materials used in sustainable technologies.[13]
Notable Alumni[edit]
As of 2017, the Division of Physical & Biological Sciences has more than 31,000 alumni, 63% of which are living and working in California.[2] Notable UC Santa Cruz Science alumni include:
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Kathryn D. Sullivan
Astronaut Hall of Fame, former NOAA Administrator, first woman to spacewalk -
Julie Packard
Ocean conservationist, philanthropist, cofounder of the Monterey Bay Aquarium -
Laurie Garrett
Science journalist, Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Award, and Peabody Award winner
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Astronomy & Astrophysics Alumni
- Natalie Batalha: Former science lead for NASA’s Kepler Mission and Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World (Ph.D ’97, Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- Alan Dressler: Award-winning astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science known for his work on Nova, National Academy of Sciences member and a NASA Public Service Medal recipient (’70, B.S. Physics; Ph.D. ’76, Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- Debra Fischer: Award-winning astronomer, part of the team to discover the first known multiple-planet system (Ph.D. ’98, Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- Marla Geha: Named "Brilliant 10" young scientists by Popular Science, now an award-winning professor of astronomy at Yale University (Ph.D. ’97, Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- Steven Hawley: Former NASA astronaut and NASA Distinguished Service Medal awardee (Ph.D. ’77, Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- Mark M. Phillips: Inventor of the Phillips relationship and pioneer in supernova cosmology (Ph.D. ’77, Astronomy & Astrophysics)
- Nicholas Suntzeff: Award-winning astrophysicist and cofounder of the High-z Supernova Search Team, which was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 for discovering dark energy (Ph.D. ’80, Astronomy & Astrophysics)
Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni
- Joseph DeRisi: Award-winning American biochemist for printing the first whole genome expression array, discovering the SARS virus, and work on malaria, MacArthur Fellow and National Academy of Sciences member (Crown ’92, B.A. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
- Sarah Gerhardt: Legendary big wave surfer, the first woman to ride Mavericks (Ph.D. ’03, Physical Chemistry)
- Howard Hang: Inventor of novel chemical tools for the study of microbe-host interaction (B.S. ’98, Chemistry)
- Lara Mahal: Known for pioneering work establishing lectin microarrays as a new technology for glycomics (B.S. ’95, Chemistry)
- Pamela Silver: Award-winning cell and systems biologist and cofounder of the emerging field of synthetic biology (B.A. ’74, Chemistry)
- Gia Voeltz: Award-winning biologist exploring neurodegenerative diseases, HHMI Investigator (Crown ’94, B.S. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Earth & Planetary Sciences Alumni
- Brent Constantz: Founder and CEO of Blue Planet Ltd, former Fulbright Scholar (Ph.D. ’86, Earth Sciences)
- Eric Reynolds: Co-founder of Marmot with alumnus David Huntley, the outdoor gear company started as a UCSC student organization called Marmot Club (B.A. ’73, Earth Sciences)
- David Huntley: Co-founder of Marmot with alumnus Eric Reynolds
- Kathryn Sullivan: Former NASA astronaut and Astronaut Hall of Fame (2004), first U.S. woman to walk in space in 1984, 10th Administrator of the NOAA (Cowell ’73, B.S. Earth Sciences)
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Alumni
- Shannon Brownlee: Groundbreaking researcher and writer on health care and policy (College Eight ’79, B.S. Biology; M.S. ’83, Marine Sciences)
- Stacy Jupiter: Director of the Melanesia Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society, MacArthur Fellows Program (Ph.D. ’03, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Julie Packard: Founder and executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium (Crown ’74, B.A. Biology; M.A. ’78)
- M. Sanjayan: Emmy nominee and science documentary and news host for CBS, PBS, BBC, Vox, and Discovery (Ph.D. ’97, Biology)
Mathematics Alumni
- Adragon De Mello: Graduated at age 11, at the time, he was the youngest college graduate in U.S. history (B.A. ’88, Computational Mathematics)
- William James Kent: Part of the team to first map the human genome and create the open-source UCSC Genome Browser (Kresge ’81, B.A. Mathematics; M.A. ’86, Mathematics; Ph.D. ’02, Biology)
Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology Alumni
- Laurie Garrett: Pulitzer Prize winner for reporting from Zaire on the 1996 Ebola virus outbreak, George Polk Award (twice) and Peabody Award winner (Merrill ’75, B.A. Biology)
- Richard Harris: Award-winning NPR science journalist and host (Crown ’80, B.S. Biology)
- William James Kent: Part of the team to first map the human genome and create the open-source UCSC Genome Browser (Kresge ’81, B.A. Mathematics; M.A. ’86, Mathematics; Ph.D. ’02, Biology)
- Cheryl Scott: Award-winning medical epidemiologist and former director of the CDC operations in Tanzania (Oakes ’74, B.S. Biology)
Ocean Sciences Alumni
- Deborah Steinberg: International leader in understanding the zooplankton and jellyfish ecology along with how the food web structures the flux of carbon to the deep sea (Ph.D. ’73, Ocean Sciences)
Physics Alumni
- J. Doyne Farmer: Award-winning econophysicist, pioneer and pioneer of chaos theory (Ph.D. ’81, Physics)
- Robert Shaw: Pioneer of chaos theory and MacArthur Fellow (Ph.D. '80, Physics)
Science Communication Alumni:
- Nsikan Akpan: Science editor at National Geographic, former science producer at PBS NewsHour (’14, Science Communication)
- Julia Calderone: Senior editor for parenting at The New York Times, former editor for Consumer Reports (’14, Science Communication)
- Kenneth Chang: Science reporter at The New York Times (’95, Science Communication)
- Nadia Drake: Award-winning science journalist at National Geographic and Wired (’11, Science Communication)
- Leslie Fink: Head of Media Relations and Public Information, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at National Science Foundation (’83, Science Communication)
- Laura Helmuth: Health, Science, & Environment Editor at The Washington Post (’98, Science Communication)
- Daniela Hernandez: Digital science editor at Wall Street Journal (’12, Science Communication)
- Jennifer Leman: Science journalist and editor at Popular Mechanics (’18, Science Communication)
- Tanya Lewis: Health and medicine editor at Scientific American (’12, Science Communication)
- Rosie Mestel: Chief magazine editor at Nature (’91, Science Communication)
- Clara Moskowitz: Senior editor, physics and astronomy at Scientific American (’07, Science Communication)
- Danielle Venton: Editor and reporter for KQED Science, an NPR-member radio station for the San Francisco Bay Area (’11, Science Communication)
Reputation & Rankings[edit]
The UC Santa Cruz Division of Physical & Biological Sciences has a strong global reputation within the scientific community, noted for its leading role in many large international research projects—particularly in Earth and space sciences. However, public perception of scientific research and academics at UC Santa Cruz tends to have low recognition. Former dean, David Kliger, put the university’s lack of recognition into perspective during an interview for the Regional History Project.
- “UCSC had very strong science departments, but it didn’t have a reputation for strong science. The reputation was not nearly as good as the reality. I think people really thought of this campus as a humanities campus. It was amazing to me how many times I would talk to people from off the campus, especially in Silicon Valley, and when I would say I was from UCSC and would say that I was the dean of natural sciences they would be shocked that we had any natural science departments on the campus. So it became pretty obvious right away that we needed a lot of work to develop our reputation in the science area.”[14]
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See also[edit]
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- ↑ "Researchers & Faculty - Paul Koch". science.ucsc.edu. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "About UC Santa Cruz Science". science.ucsc.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "OSP Annual Report FY 2018–2019" (PDF). UC Santa Cruz Office of Sponsored Projects. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ↑ Doyle, William (2011). UC Santa Cruz: 1960-1991. Lulu. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-257-02657-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Doyle, William (2011). UC Santa Cruz: 1960-1991. Lulu. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-257-02657-9. Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Thimann, Kenneth V.; Jarrell, Randall (June 15, 1997). "Kenneth V. Thimann: Early UCSC History and the Founding of Crown College". Regional History Project, University of California, Santa Cruz Library. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Departments & Units". UC Santa Cruz Science. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ↑ "Degree Programs". UC Santa Cruz Science. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Research". UC Santa Cruz Science. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ↑ "Coastal Science Campus Facilities". UC Santa Cruz Institute of Marine Sciences. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ↑ "Our Mission". UC Observatories. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Our Reserves". UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserves. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ↑ "About the Initiative". Materials Science & Engineering Initiative (MSEI). Retrieved 10 January 2020.
- ↑ Kliger, David; Reti, Irene (2011). "Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, David Kliger". Regional History Project, University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved Aug 6, 2019.
- ↑ "University of California--Santa Cruz - U.S. News Best Grad School Rankings". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ↑ "U.S. News Best Global Universities for Space Science". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Science Journalism Degrees—Do They Make a Difference?". Science. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ↑ "Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, by Research Citation Index". Times Higher Education. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Nature Index National Rankings for Academic Institutions by Subject". Nature Index. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, by Research Citation Index". Times Higher Education. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, by Research Citation Index". Times Higher Education. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Nature Index National Rankings for Academic Institutions by Subject". Nature Index. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, by Research Citation Index". Times Higher Education. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
- ↑ "Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, by Research Citation Index". Times Higher Education. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
