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 25, 2018

  Film professor Jennifer Taylor wins fellowship for summer residency at MacDowell Colony

  Assistant professor of film and digital media Jennifer Maytorena Taylor has received a fellowship for a summer residency at one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations.

• April 23, 2018

  Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy

  A 'deep learning' algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at classifying real galaxies in Hubble images.

• April 17, 2018

  DANM 2018 MFA student exhibition culminates two years of intensive study and creative work

  Nine graduate students from the Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program (DANM) will conclude two years of artistic study at UC Santa Cruz with "Interstices"--an exhibition of their work running April 27-29, at the UCSC Digital Arts Research Center.

• April 17, 2018

  South County housing crisis to be discussed May 2

  University researchers and community leaders will host a public forum about the affordable housing crisis on Wednesday, May 2, at 7 p.m. in the Community Room of the Watsonville Civic Center.

• April 12, 2018

  J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves appointed director of CITRIS at UC Santa Cruz

  Computer engineer J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves has been appointed to serve as the UC Santa Cruz director for CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute.

• April 11, 2018

  Nature-based solutions can prevent $50 billion in Gulf Coast flood damages

  Researchers found that restoration of marshes and oyster reefs are among the most cost-effective solutions for flood risk reduction on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

• April 11, 2018

  Building a feminist psychology of resistance

  On a fateful trip to Nicaragua in 2005, Shelly Grabe, now an associate professor of psychology, met women who were organizing to fight domestic violence, and she saw what real and lasting social change looked like.

• April 10, 2018

  Coastal stream restoration projects concentrated where residents are 'whiter, wealthier, and more educated,' researchers find

  Stream restoration efforts along the coast of Central California are unevenly distributed, with activity more likely to occur in areas that are more highly populated and dominated by residents who are "whiter, wealthier, and more educated," according to an analysis by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

• April 05, 2018

  New 'Pan-Cancer' analysis reveals the common roots of different cancers

  In the largest study of its kind, cancer researchers analyzed and classified more than 10,000 tumors from 33 cancer types to trace connections between different cancers.

• April 04, 2018

  Jenny Reardon among scholars speaking out on genomics and race

  Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon joined 66 other scholars in signing an open letter about genetics and race, responding to a recent opinion piece in the New York Times written by David Reich, a professor of genetics at Harvard.

• March 21, 2018

  Seismologists introduce new measure of earthquake ruptures

  Seismologists have developed a new measurement of seismic energy release that can be applied to large earthquakes.

• March 20, 2018

  Marine researchers say recent sea star wasting disease epidemic defies prediction

  Some sea star communities on the west coast could recover, but marine scientists still can’t pinpoint the environmental factors behind the unprecedented disease outbreak.

• March 16, 2018

  Soil fungi may help determine the resilience of forests to environmental change, according to UC Santa Cruz study

  A major new study by Kai Zhu reveals that soil fungi could play a significant role in the ability of forests to adapt to environmental change.

• March 15, 2018

  NIH grant funds high-end instrument for shared biomedical research facility

  UC Santa Cruz establishes a Bay Area facility in electron paramagnetic resonance with a $1.5-million grant from NIH's High-End Instrumentation program.

• March 12, 2018

  Four kinds of algal toxins found in San Francisco Bay shellfish

  Researchers monitoring San Francisco Bay for algal toxins have found a surprising array of different toxins in the water and in mussels collected from the bay.

• March 09, 2018

  Antigen study supports new approach to vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus

  RSV causes serious respiratory disease in infants and older adults, but past efforts to develop a vaccine have met with frustration and disappointment.

• March 05, 2018

  Campus receives Mellon Foundation grant to help create new forms of digital publication

  UC Santa Cruz is the lead institution on a $100,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to help build a sustainable system for the digital publication and discovery of historical records.

• February 28, 2018

  Community Studies founder William H. Friedland dies at 94

  William H. “Bill” Friedland, professor emeritus of community studies and sociology at UC Santa Cruz, whose life and career encompassed the major social movements of the 20th century, from labor struggles during and after World War II, to farm worker and youth movements of the 1960s, to the agriculture-food awareness of today, died at his Santa Cruz home Feb. 20 at age 94.

• February 28, 2018

  Fixing damaged ecosystems: How much does restoration help?

  A new meta-analysis of 400 studies that document recovery from large-scale ecosystem disturbances worldwide suggests that while ecosystems can bounce back, they rarely mend completely, with the final stages of recovery being most difficult.

• February 26, 2018

  Tracking data reveal the secret lives of marine animals

  Seals, whales, sharks, turtles, seabirds, and other marine vertebrates show similar patterns of movement in marine environments.