 As of 2015 , UCSC 's faculty include 13 members of the National Academy of Sciences , 24 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and 33 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . The young Baskin School of Engineering , UCSC 's first professional school and home to the Expressive Intelligence Studio , and the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering are gaining recognition , as has the work that UCSC researchers David Haussler and Jim Kent have done on the Human Genome Project , including the widely used UCSC Genome Browser . UCSC administers the National Science Foundation 's Center for Adaptive Optics . 
