#1 Physical & Biological Sciences Dean’s Funds
Gifts to the excellence fund maximize your impact on student scholarships, diversity, research projects, and new research facilities in the sciences at UC Santa Cruz.
Building a Better Fieldwork Future Program
Building a Better Fieldwork Future prepares students, researchers, and instructors to maintain well-being in field settings through trainings to prevent, intervene in, and respond to sexual harassment and assault, to make scientific fieldwork a safe and inclusive place.
Curricular Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE)
Your gift supports lab courses based on faculty-led research projects, where students gain intensive lab experience, including data analysis, critical thinking, and soft skills necessary for successful careers in the life science industry.
The Mary Zavanelli Fund for Undergraduate Research in Health Sciences
Your gift supports undergraduates conducting independent research projects in faculty laboratories to gain important hands-on experience in health science research that can help launch their careers.
Robert A. Ludwig Memorial Graduate Student Fund
Your gift supports an outstanding graduate student selected annually by the Department of Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology in memory of professor Bob Ludwig.
Endowment for Undergraduate Research in Science & Technology (URST)
Your gift provides grants to undergraduate students working on research projects in science and technology, covering costs associated with conducting research and a stipend.
Mathematics Fellowships Fund
Your gift supports fellowships for graduate students in our Department of Mathematics.
Mathematics General Fund
Your gift supports the exploration of fundamental questions in mathematics and ensures students develop expertise needed for advanced training.
Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology General Fund
Your gift supports research and graduate training aimed at studying how environmental poisons and pathogens harm humans and other living things.
Chemical Screening Center Fund
Your gift supports a state-of-the-art chemical screening center—modern equipment, libraries, technical assistance, screens, and data analysis—for identifying new agents to address neglected and complex diseases.
Chemistry & Biochemistry General Fund
Your gift supports education in chemistry and biochemistry with cross-disciplinary emphasis, including research in biomedical and biotechnology, diseases and drug discovery (natural and synthetic compounds), energy conversion of nanomaterials, nanophotonics, and imaging.
RNA Center General Fund
Your gift supports the world’s premiere center for RNA research, with 16 laboratories representing every area of RNA science conducting work key to future breakthroughs in treating disease and in understanding life itself.