Category: Partnerships

UC Santa Cruz welcomed a delegation of faculty and staff from Aarhus University in Denmark in October 2025, marking a milestone in the two institutions’ deepening partnership and building on a September 2024 UC Santa Cruz faculty delegation to Aarhus University to develop faculty and research connections.  This collaborative exchange and the reciprocal visits between…

In October 2025, a UC Santa Cruz delegation visited Mexico City to initiate and strengthen partnerships with Mexican universities. The delegation’s goals included developing potential dual degree and graduate pathway agreements, fostering bilateral research collaborations, exploring joint grant opportunities, facilitating faculty and student exchange, and enhancing UC Santa Cruz’s presence and engagement in Mexico’s academic…

UC Santa Cruz faculty and graduate students have recently received a range of research funding and academic support through UC Alianza MX, supporting cross-border collaboration between University of California campuses and Mexican institutions. The awards span joint research, strategic projects, faculty travel, postdoctoral fellowships, and graduate student exchanges, highlighting the university’s growing role in engagement…

Over the past three years, UC Santa Cruz has cultivated a partnership with Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) that has grown from hopeful conversations into a vibrant, multifaceted collaboration spanning multiple disciplines. With shared commitments to academic excellence, innovative teaching, and impactful research, both institutions have invested time and resources into faculty exchanges, joint grant proposals,…

Global Entrepreneurship (GEn): Innovation Meets Silicon Valley The GEn Program, a five‑week blend of online modules and intense on‑campus study, launched in July with a cohort of international students from Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland) and Kyung Hee University (South Korea) eager to develop startups or serve real-world organizations. Structured into internship and accelerator tracks,…

In May 2025, Professor of Performance, Play, and Design Patty Gallagher and Professor of Music Ben Leeds Carson brought their acclaimed production of An Iliad to the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast for the play’s first international performance. Associate Professor of Literature Renée Fox also joined and met with Queen’s…

Three faculty members from Queen’s University Belfast, Professor Aoife McGrath, Lecturer Aislinn Clarke, and Lecturer Ali FitzGibbon, visited UC Santa Cruz from March 3–5 for a dynamic exchange of ideas, research, and collaboration with the arts and humanities. This visit, which followed a previous visit in October of 2024 to pursue faculty-driven partnership opportunities, featured…

The Division of Global Engagement and Division of Graduate Studies hosted an International Research Funding Opportunities Forum on March 5, bringing together faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students eager to explore funding options for their international research endeavors. The in-person event provided a platform for scholars to gain insights into securing international grants, developing global…

A delegation of six faculty members from the University of Bristol, led by Esther Dermott, Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean for Arts, Law & Social Sciences, visited UC Santa Cruz from February 3–5 to broaden an existing student exchange and explore avenues for collaborative research. This visit, which followed a visit to University of…

A delegation of ten UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff, led by Campus Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Lori Kletzer, traveled to Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY) in Mérida, Mexico from October 27–30. The three-day trip followed a delegation visit to UC Santa Cruz in June led by the UADY President, Carlos Alberto Estrada Pinto.…

A delegation from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) visited the University of California, Santa Cruz from Nov. 18-20. The visit, following a UC Santa Cruz faculty delegation to UABC in May, explored opportunities for joint research, educational partnerships, and faculty engagement across various disciplines. Dr. Dora-Luz Flores Gutiérrez, General Coordinator of Research and…

Following the UK Faculty Seminar Away in April 2024, UC Santa Cruz welcomed a delegation from Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) to facilitate ongoing faculty-driven dialogue on research and expansion of academic collaboration between the two institutions. The visit, the first of three anticipated reciprocal visits, was hosted in cooperation with several of the UC Santa…