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.

• July 06, 2021

  Library’s new Community Archiving Program to broaden scope of Regional History Project

  The University Library has announced the establishment of a new Community Archiving Program that will build on the foundation of its decades-old Regional History Project. 

• July 02, 2021

  Unusual currents explain mysterious red crab strandings

  New findings suggest that abnormal ocean currents cause the occasional appearance of pelagic red crabs outside their native range.

• June 29, 2021

  Martian south polar cap composition focus of new study

  A team of scientists have determined that Mars’ south polar ice sheet may be made of clays, metal-bearing minerals, or saline ice.

• June 29, 2021

  Jonathan Fortney garners Simons Investigator in Astrophysics award

  The $500,000 award from the Simons Foundation will support Fortney’s research on planetary atmospheres.

• June 24, 2021

  Cosmic dawn occurred 250 to 350 million years after Big Bang

  Cosmic dawn, when stars formed for the first time, occurred 250 million to 350 million years after the beginning of the universe, according to a new study.

• June 23, 2021

  Tracking data show how the quiet of pandemic-era lockdowns allowed pumas to venture closer to urban areas

  During regional shelter-in-place orders, declining levels of human mobility emboldened local pumas to use habitats they would normally avoid out of fear of humans.

• June 22, 2021

  Nathaniel Deutsch’s ‘A Fortress in Brooklyn’ reveals provocative counter-history of American Jewry

  A new book by UC Santa Cruz history professor Nathaniel Deutsch details how a group of determined Holocaust survivors survived in one of the roughest parts of New York City—reshaping the urban landscape of postwar Brooklyn.

• June 21, 2021

  New study shows how loss of drought-sensitive species could affect health of California grasslands

  At a grassland site near San Jose, scientists studied experimental research plots to determine what might happen if the plants that ecologists expect to be hit hardest by drought actually disappeared.

• June 16, 2021

  Hydrologist Margaret Zimmer wins NSF CAREER Award

  Margaret Zimmer, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences, has received an award from the National Science Foundation to support her research on the role of Earth’s subsurface in regulating the water cycle.

• June 09, 2021

  Research partnership will highlight STEM learning in local community garden

  A grant from the Spencer Foundation will help UC Santa Cruz researchers document the many types of STEM learning taking place in a Latinx immigrant-led community garden in Watsonville.

• June 09, 2021

  Doctoral student wins Ford Foundation fellowship for work on gender, race, and policing

  Uriel Serrano recently won a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship to support his research on how gender ideologies are formed in relation to carceral violence.

• June 07, 2021

  Axions could be the fossil of the universe researchers have been waiting for

  A new study suggests finding the hypothetical particles known as axions could mean finding out for the first time what happened in the universe a second after the Big Bang.

• June 07, 2021

  Snowflake morays can feed on land, swallow prey without water

  While most fish need water to feed, the unique anatomy of moray eels gives snowflake morays the ability to grab and swallow prey on land.

• June 02, 2021

  Dead zones formed repeatedly in North Pacific during warm climates, study finds

  Over the past 1.2 million years, marine life was repeatedly extinguished in low-oxygen ‘dead zones’ in the North Pacific Ocean during warm interglacial climates.

• May 26, 2021

  Somalia’s fight for God-given rights

  The latest book from Politics and Legal Studies Professor Mark Fathi Massoud challenges Western notions of Islam and secular law-making by revealing how Somali Muslims have embraced Sharia as a force for progress and liberation.

• May 25, 2021

  Non-hallucinogenic psychedelic analog reverses effects of stress in mouse study

  Free of toxic and hallucinogenic side effects, ibogaine-inspired tabernanthalog shows promise as a potential treatment for the detrimental effects of stress on the brain.

• May 20, 2021

  Astronomers track down fast radio bursts to galaxies’ spiral arms

  Mysterious flashes of radio energy that disappear in the blink of an eye originate from young, massive galaxies.

• May 20, 2021

  Survival of migrating juvenile salmon depends on stream flow thresholds

  New understanding of relationship between stream flows and salmon survival provides a critical tool for balancing water needs in the highly managed Sacramento River.

• May 19, 2021

  UC Santa Cruz names Celine Parreñas Shimizu new dean of Arts Division

  UC Santa Cruz has appointed award-winning filmmaker and film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu as dean of the Arts Division, effective July 1.

• May 19, 2021

  Missing the middle: the importance of regional-scale field research

  Regional-scale research networks such as the UC Natural Reserve System are ideal for documenting the impact of climate change on plants and animals.