The quality and quantity of research activities at UC Santa Cruz are reflected in these recent NewsCenter stories, below. The work draws attention from reporters, whose coverage of the campus is showcased in the NewsCenter's In the News section.

• April 14, 2023

  Rebecca London testifies in support of bill that would guarantee recess for California students

  Associate Professor of Sociology Rebecca London testified before the California State Senate Education Committee on April 12 in support of SB 291, which would guarantee at least 30 minutes of recess per day for California students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

• April 13, 2023

  Study pushes back the emergence of African grasslands by more than 10 million years

  An international team of scientists has documented the earliest evidence for local abundance in eastern Africa of the types of grasses that now dominate grassland and savannah ecosystems in tropical and subtropical regions around the world.

• April 12, 2023

  Naming system for transfer RNA fragments will increase research productivity, standardization

  UC Santa Cruz Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Todd Lowe and his group created a new naming scheme for tRNA fragments aimed at standardizing research.

• April 11, 2023

  Colombian all-female team uncovers naturalist Elizabeth Kerr’s long-forgotten legacy

  Many fields of study have long been dominated by men but a team of eight female Colombian researchers are committed to uncovering the story of naturalist pioneer Elizabeth Kerr, whose legacy had remained invisible despite her vast contributions to ornithology.

• April 06, 2023

  Two major stem cell research projects supported with more than $2.6 million in funding

  The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) will provide more than $2.6 million in total funding for two major stem cell research projects led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz, the organization announced.

• April 04, 2023

  Milestone land acknowledgement event brings campus, local tribe and community members together

  On Wednesday, April 12, the campus will host its first Land Acknowledgment event, recognizing the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and its place in the local history of the land and the creation of UC Santa Cruz. The event will aim to answer the community’s questions about land acknowledgments, and the importance of such events moving forward.

• March 30, 2023

  New program advises UCSC Ph.D. students on their path to entrepreneurship and venture capital

  Many student-led innovations never make it out of the lab. A new program at UC Santa Cruz aims to change that by mentoring Ph.D. students in the life sciences on alternative career pathways outside academia: entrepreneurship and venture capital.

• March 27, 2023

  Humans and housing density are the leading cause of death for local pumas

  Two new studies involving UC Santa Cruz researchers are shedding light on the challenges facing local pumas where humans are encroaching on their natural habitats.

• March 25, 2023

  Pedroza received Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant

  Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Pedroza aims to learn more about these challenges and speak to them, with the help of a recently awarded grant from the Russell Sage Foundation.

• March 25, 2023

  Grant funds Sarker's aquaculture sustainability research

  Pallab Sarker received a foundation grant fund from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, amounting to $170,947 over three years to strengthen his lab’s ecological aquaculture work.

• March 22, 2023

  JWST’s first direct spectrum of planetary-mass object reveals dynamic atmosphere

  The most detailed spectrum ever for a planetary-mass object outside our solar system covers an unprecedented range of wavelengths, providing a wealth of new insights.

• March 21, 2023

  Computer engineering research prompts bug fixes, updates to major GPU frameworks

  A new suite of GPU tests developed by Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Tyler Sorensen and his students led to changes to an important GPU framework for programming web browsers.

• March 21, 2023

  Scientists, policy leaders, and insurance experts meet to address climate risks

  The Coastal Climate Resilience Symposium held at the Seymour Center focused on integrating nature-based solutions into risk management and insurance.

• March 21, 2023

  Collaboration with NASA uses eDNA technology to monitor biodiversity

  UCSC scientists collected environmental DNA samples in South Africa as part of the BioSCape project.

• March 15, 2023

  Young Supernova Experiment releases first set of transient survey data

  UC Santa Cruz astronomers organized the survey, which has discovered thousands of cosmic explosions and other transient events of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists.

• March 14, 2023

  Researcher solves nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma

  Dejan Milutinovic has solved a nearly 60-year-old game theory dilemma called the wall pursuit game, with implications for better reasoning about autonomous systems such as driverless vehicles.

• March 13, 2023

  Minke whales are as small as a lunge-feeding baleen whale can be

  Research on the feeding behavior of Antarctic minke whales found that a smaller whale could not capture enough food to survive using the lunge-feeding strategy of baleen whales.

• March 13, 2023

  Winning Grad Slam presentation highlights disease threat to Hawaiian birds

  Ecology and evolutionary biology graduate student Christa Seidl will compete in the UC systemwide Grad Slam in May, presenting her research on avian malaria.

• March 10, 2023

  Where is your squid coming from? Most likely unregulated waters, according to a new international study

  Scientists and policymakers have voiced growing concerns about the decline of global squid stocks, but little has been done to date to target squid fishing activities that are expanding into unregulated spaces, according to a new international study.

• March 09, 2023

  New project will develop safer, highly accurate GPS alternative

  Ricardo Sanfelice, UCSC professor of electrical and computer engineering, and his team of graduate students and researchers are designing a new and resilient Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) system.