Engineering
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Birdwatching tourism is booming. Some countries are benefiting, while others are left behind
Birding tourism can support sustainable development and habitat conservation across the tropics, but only if countries can successfully attract birders. New research reveals what affects birdwatchers’ choice of destinations.
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UC Santa Cruz among top 15 Alt-Ivies of 2025 by Town & Country
Town & Country said UC Santa Cruz was included because of its “growing reputation for research, social justice, and environmental sustainability.”
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Digital game demonstrates the power of religion for climate change education
‘Shloka’ uses Hindu deities, practices, and narratives to communicate the problems of climate change
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Artificial biosensor can better measure the body’s main stress hormone
This research paves the way for point-of-care cortisol testing and diagnoses.
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New air quality sensors enable community decision-making in Pajaro Valley region
Newly deployed sensors will fill in significant gaps in the area’s air quality monitoring network
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Center for Coastal Climate Resilience Fellows bridge disciplines to build resilient communities
In part two of our series highlighting CCCR fellows, we spoke with fellows who use their unique cross-disciplinary backgrounds to advance climate resilience.
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New software promises to make precision genome editing with CRISPR accessible to more researchers
Integration into widely used UCSC Genome Browser makes tool available to entire life-sciences community
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Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning
Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.
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Games promote preparedness and build community resilience to wildfire
UC Santa Cruz game makers invite users to test their safety instincts before disaster strikes
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Using technology and games to build climate-resilient communities
Linda Hirsch, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Santa Cruz who is supported by the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, is exploring how technology can help individuals and communities prepare for and recover from climate-related hazards.
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A fresh look at TikTok: short food videos encourage long-term healthy eating habits in teens
Research from UC Santa Cruz human-computer interactions scholars is revealing how online habits translate into offline actions
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A data-driven model to help avoid ecosystem collapse
New study gives conservationists a simpler, general approach for predicting an ecosystem’s tipping point and what comes next