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.

• October 07, 2020

  10-screen film installation and photo exhibition by professor Isaac Julien opens at McEvoy Arts

  The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco will present the West Coast debut of 'Lessons of the Hour,' a moving image and photography exhibition about the life of Frederick Douglass by British filmmaker, installation artist, and UC Santa Cruz professor of the arts, Isaac Julien.

• October 05, 2020

  Chemistry grad student awarded DOE support for research at national lab

  Vivien Cherrette, a graduate student in chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz, is among 52 outstanding U.S. graduate students to receive support from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

• September 28, 2020

  Seed funding grants support plans for innovative research centers

  The UCSC Office of Research has awarded seed funding to six campus research groups to support their efforts to develop innovative new research centers.

• September 24, 2020

  Bioelectronic device achieves unprecedented control of cell membrane voltage

  A closed-loop biohybrid device driven by a machine learning algorithm maintained a set membrane voltage in human stem cells for 10 hours.

• September 15, 2020

  UCSC engineers developing all-electric power train for future aircraft

  Funding from the Department of Energy for the UCSC team is part of a major effort to develop carbon-neutral hybrid electric aviation.

• September 10, 2020

  New art game explores intersection of personal trauma and climate induced wildfires

  Sin Sol (No Sun) is an augmented reality game that allows players to experience the feelings of a climate change event. Set 50 years in the future, it tells the story of environmental collapse from the past—which is our present in 2020.

• September 10, 2020

  High-fidelity record of Earth’s climate history puts current changes in context

  A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun is much smaller than projected future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions.

• September 09, 2020

  Cooperative research effort documents northward migration of kelp forests

  From Alaska to Mexico, warming waters are driving widespread changes in these highly productive coastal ecosystems.

• September 01, 2020

  New data science institute includes a focus on ethics and algorithms

  The Institute for Foundations of Data Science is a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Chicago.

• August 31, 2020

  History professor Eric Porter examines musical improvisation as a response to crisis

  "Playing for Keeps: Improvisation in the Aftermath" is an exploration of the various ways that musical improvisation can be used as a method for responding to crisis and dealing with trauma and stress.

• August 27, 2020

  UCSC partners in institute to explore the role of AI in education

  The NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming envisions intelligent computers in classrooms working side-by-side with groups of students.

• August 26, 2020

  New observations of black hole devouring a star reveal rapid disk formation

  The first clear confirmation of accretion disk formation in a tidal disruption event without x-ray emissions supports theoretical predictions.

• August 19, 2020

  Alaska’s salmon are getting smaller, affecting people and ecosystems

  A comprehensive study of four salmon species across all regions of Alaska finds salmon are returning to rivers smaller and younger than in the past.

• August 12, 2020

  UCSC historian Greg O’Malley awarded NEH grant for research on slavery in early America

  UCSC history professor Gregory O’Malley has received a Public Scholars Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a biography of David George, who was born a slave in 1743 and whose pursuit of freedom intersects with major events of the Revolutionary Era.

• August 12, 2020

  UCSC partners with CSUMB for postdoctoral training and mentorship program

  A $4.2 million NIH grant to UCSC’s Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells is funding an innovative program to address underrepresentation of minorities in biomedical faculty.

• August 07, 2020

  Going with the flow—famed Ocean Explorers Summer Camp heads online

  COVID-19 compelled the Seymour Marine Discovery Center to take its popular Ocean Explorers Summer Camp virtual after running the program in person for 21 years—a successful experiment that presented both challenges and opportunities.

• August 07, 2020

  County, UCSC partner to expand local testing capacity

  UC Santa Cruz has received CARES Act funds from Santa Cruz County to enable the purchase of new equipment for the UCSC Molecular Diagnostic Lab.

• August 05, 2020

  UCSC linguists receive $400,000 NSF grant for research on rarely studied languages

  UC Santa Cruz linguistics professors Maziar Toosarvandani, Ivy Sichel, and Matthew Wagers have been awarded a $411,058 grant from the National Science Foundation to support research on endangered languages.

• August 05, 2020

  Calcium-rich supernova examined with x-rays for first time

  An international team has obtained unprecedented observations of a rare calcium-rich supernova.

• July 29, 2020

  Toy or therapy device? Researchers study effectiveness of fidget tools

  The study will assess whether a high-tech fidget device increases focus and relieves anxiety in adults with ADHD, which is particularly relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic.