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.

• March 17, 2020

  New understanding of immune modulator interleukin-2 guides drug discovery

  A new study shows how IL-2’s flexible structure governs its effects on the immune system, providing crucial information for harnessing its therapeutic potential.

• March 16, 2020

  Study shows widely used machine learning methods don’t work as claimed

  Researchers demonstrated the mathematical impossibility of representing social networks and other complex networks using popular methods of ‘low-dimensional embeddings’.

• March 11, 2020

  UCSC thin-film expertise to help develop NASA’s next generation of space telescopes

  Engineer Nobuhiko Kobayashi's expertise in thin-film technology could improve the performance of NASA’s next generation of space telescopes.

• March 10, 2020

  Astronomers use slime mold model to reveal dark threads of the cosmic web

  The problem-solving prowess of a simple slime mold has been harnessed to trace the large-scale structure of the universe.

• March 10, 2020

  Research shows mangrove conservation can pay for itself in flood protection

  A new global study shows that mangroves provide billions of dollars worth of flood risk reduction benefits every year.

• March 04, 2020

  Elaine Sullivan uses 3D technologies to peel away the layers of history

  A new "born-digital" publication by UC Santa Cruz associate history professor Elaine Sullivan takes a fresh look at the ancient Egyptian burial site of Saqqara to demonstrate how it has evolved over more than 2,500 years.

• March 02, 2020

  Engineer Heiner Litz wins NSF CAREER Award for data storage research

  Heiner Litz, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

• February 27, 2020

  UC Santa Cruz leads collaboration to speed wound healing with a novel smart bandage

  With up to $16 million in funding from DARPA, UC Santa Cruz engineers will work with doctors and scientists at UC Davis and Tufts University to develop bioelectronic intelligent control of wound regeneration.

• February 24, 2020

  Heising-Simons Foundation supports exoplanet imaging projects at UC Santa Cruz

  Three new grants totaling $2.4 million will fund work at UCSC on new instruments and technologies to support research on planets beyond our solar system.

• February 19, 2020

  Researchers get a ‘whale’s-eye view’ of Antarctic sea ice

  Cameras attached to a rare species of Antarctic whale are giving scientists an unprecedented view of how the whales survive in their sea ice habitat.

• February 18, 2020

  Art professor’s exhibition in Spain addresses algae and climate change

  UC Santa Cruz art professor Jennifer Parker believes that algae are an “unsung hero of the planet”--noting that these photosynthetic organisms produce one half of the total global oxygen, while absorbing one third of the carbon dioxide produced worldwide...

• February 13, 2020

  Molecular switch mechanism explains how mutations shorten biological clocks

  Understanding the molecular mechanisms of our internal clocks may enable the development of therapies for sleep disorders and other effects of clock disruption.

• February 06, 2020

  Proposed hydropower dams pose threat to Gabon’s fishes

  Proposed hydropower dams in Gabon pose a substantial threat to the African nation’s most culturally and economically important fishes, according to a new study.

• February 05, 2020

  Unprecedented study yields most comprehensive map of cancer genomes to date

  Pan-Cancer Project discovers causes of previously unexplained cancers, pin-points cancer-causing events, and zeros in on mechanisms of development.

• January 29, 2020

  UCSC taking art/science LASER talk series downtown for special evening at Rio Theater

  On Wednesday, Feb. 19, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences will bring its local LASER—now in its seventh year of quarterly talks on campus—downtown for a special evening at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, beginning at 7 p.m.

• January 27, 2020

  Seismic biomarkers in Japan Trench fault zone reveal history of large earthquakes

  Researchers found multiple faults with evidence of more than 10 meters of slip during past large earthquakes in the region hit by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami.

• January 27, 2020

  Study connects marine heat wave with spike in whale entanglements

  Entanglements of humpback whales in fishing gear along the U.S. West Coast increased dramatically during the 2014 to 2016 marine heat wave known as the ‘warm blob’.

• January 24, 2020

  Graduate student funds for travel to Latin America available through RCA

  New funding is available for graduate students traveling to Latin America to conduct preliminary research, thanks to a grant from the Tinker Foundation and matching funds from the university that were received by the Research Center for the Americas.

• January 16, 2020

  In death of dinosaurs, it was all about the asteroid — not volcanoes

  Volcanic activity did not play a direct role in the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, according to an international team of researchers.

• January 15, 2020

  CITRIS Core Seed Funding program invites proposals for 2020

  The 2020 CITRIS Core Seed Funding program is now open for submissions.