← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
University Of California-Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
$493,513,682
Total funding
1,292
Grants
Funding over time
peak $36.6M · FY2005–26$50M$37.5M$25M$12.5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$493,513,682 · 1292
By mechanism
—$493,513,682 · 1292
Investigators at University Of California-Santa Cruz
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
Not enough data
Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Not enough data
All-Time
Most funded here, all years
Not enough data
Largest grants
Center for Adaptive Optics$38,255,400
· FY1999 · MPS
Gradute Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$12,757,707
· FY2013 · EDU
Graduate Research Fellowship Program(GRFP)$7,139,483
· FY2018 · EDU
Graduate Research Fellowship Program$6,489,750
· FY2007 · EDU
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)$6,299,333
· FY2022 · EDU
Collaborative Research: CPS: Frontier: Computation-Aware Algorithmic Design for Cyber-Physical Systems$5,808,472
· FY2022 · CSE
GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS$3,942,000
· FY2002 · EDU
WoU-MMA: Development of the Optical Alignment Systems for the Medium-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array$3,904,416
· FY2023 · MPS
NSF-NERC: Thwaites Interdisciplinary Margin Evolution (TIME): The Role of Shear Margin Dynamics in the Future Evolution of the Thwaites Drainage Basin$3,688,141
· FY2018 · GEO
MRI Consortium: Developments for a Novel Pixel Tracking Layer for the ATLAS Detector$3,550,000
· FY2010 · MPS
Effective Science Teaching for English Language Learners (ESTELL): A Pre-Service Teacher Professional Development Research Project Across Three Universities in California$3,100,000
· FY2008 · EDU
Secondary Science Teaching with English Language and Literacy Acquisition (SSTELLA)$2,885,185
· FY2013 · EDU
BIOCOMPLEXITY: Consequences of Greenhouse Warming for Biocomplexity and Biogeochemical Cycles: A Multidisciplinary Case Study Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary$2,498,392
· FY2001 · GEO
TRIPODS: Institute for Foundations of Data Science$2,230,384
· FY2020 · MPS
New, GK-12: SCWIBLES - Santa Cruz-Watsonville Inquiry-Based Learning in Environmental Sciences$2,114,255
· FY2010 · EDU
MRI: Development of Enhanced Adaptive Optics System and Infrared Instrumentation for the Shane 3-meter Telescope$2,000,000
· FY2009 · MPS
Developing Effective Engineering Pathways$2,000,000
· FY2003 · EDU
AccelNet-Implementation: SZNet - A Coordinated Global Effort to Understand Subduction Geohazards$1,999,834
· FY2023 · O/D
EFRI BEGIN OI: Reinforcement Learning for Scalable Biocomputing$1,958,603
· FY2025 · ENG
CUE-P: Establishing Servingness in Computing through Baskin Engineering Excellence Scholars Program$1,939,658
· FY2023 · CSE