UCSC Nuz Highlights  
developed NASA's newest telescope to the universe in high-energy gamma rays
Solved mystery of massive stars
Engineers tackle problems of: sustainable energy, high-tech devices for disabled people in speech, hearing, vision, robotics, reasearching the human genome.
With the amount of digital informatio doubling each month, engineers are working on information storage and system management
video games and human interaction.
"The research being pursued...is truly leading edge" said acting Engineering dean Michael Isaacson.
Investigating the origins of life in biomolecular engineering
Engineers designing robotic exoskeleton arms
World Music Composition considered top, and developing ties with Korean universities.
Animal Rights protestors firebombed scientists
Community Studies program threatened cut

Physicists helped developed "string theory" unifying the forces of nature.
UCSC Indian students held candlelight vigil protesting Mumbai massacre.
Engineering grad students researched nanostructured materials for photovoltaic devices.

Developing national health insurance policy (a UCSC sociology PhD alumni, now an assistant professor at UCSF)

I'm not sure what all those mean, but I'm sure they're rather smart, wouldn't you say?!