• March 26, 2020

  California Sea Grant funds sustainable aquaculture project

  Pallab Sarker, an associate research professor in environmental studies, has received support from the Coastal Sea Grant program to fund his research into the development of sustainable feed for farmed fish.

• March 25, 2020

  Orin Martin recognized for 'Fruit Trees for Every Garden'

  Orin Martin's book 'Fruit Trees for Every Garden' has been recognized by the American Horticultural Society as one of the outstanding gardening books of 2019.

• March 25, 2020

  UCSC grad students win funding for research on salmon and coastal resilience

  California Sea Grant has awarded funding to two UC Santa Cruz graduate students for research projects involving restoration of salmon populations and management strategies for resilient coastal communities.

• March 24, 2020

  Thousands move out as campus transitions to remote learning

  As finals week wrapped up, more than 6,800 students had notified UC Santa Cruz that they planned to move off-campus for spring quarter. Another 1,300 told housing officials they planned to remain in campus housing. About 500 students have not yet shared their plans.

• March 24, 2020

  Recruiting raptors for rodent control along the Pajaro River levee

  UCSC’s Predatory Bird Research Group is working with the Santa Cruz County Flood Control District to encourage hawks and owls to patrol the levee for rodent control.

• March 18, 2020

  Tracking data used to identify biodiversity hot spots in Southern Ocean ecosystems

  An international team of scientists used electronic tracking data from birds and marine mammals to identify areas of ecological significance in the waters around Antarctica.

• 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

  UC Santa Cruz campus was ready for its close-up

  Producers of 'Devs,' the new sci-fi thriller that premiered March 5 on Hulu, were looking for just the right location to depict a high-tech corporate campus with a tinge of dystopia. It needed to look like Northern California — sort of Silicon Valley-ish — and it needed to say science and tech. UC Santa Cruz was the right place at the right time.

• 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 16, 2020

  Two programs will support undergrads in research, service learning, and peer mentoring

  Undergraduates in the Division of Social Sciences will soon benefit from two programs that will provide paid opportunities to do research, engage in service learning, and mentor their peers.

• March 16, 2020

  Timing is key for parents who want to help children learn at museums, say researchers

  Children's museums can be a challenging environment for parents who feel the urge to explain the science behind all the novel activities that dazzle youngsters. New research suggests that timing is key to supporting children's learning in these environments.

• March 12, 2020

  New book debunks myths about who causes crime and why

  Craig Haney, a distinguished professor of psychology, is the author of the new book Criminality in Context: The Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform, a comprehensive analysis of 40 years of research into the root causes of criminal behavior.

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