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  • Fisheries management study focuses on small-scale fishing cooperatives in the Gulf of California

    The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded a major grant to researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and other institutions to study fisheries in the northern Gulf of California. The $1.3 million grant funds a collaborative project to help local Mexican fishers and government officials understand and manage marine resources using cutting-edge…

  • Joseph Miller steps down as director of UC Observatories/Lick Observatory after 14 years at the helm

    Joseph S. Miller has resigned as director of the University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory (UCO/Lick), a position he held for 14 years. Miller will return to full-time teaching and research at UC Santa Cruz, where he is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics. Michael Bolte, also a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC, will…

  • ARCS Foundation scholarships support nine outstanding graduate students at UCSC

    Nine UC Santa Cruz graduate students have received scholarships worth a total of $100,000 from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation for the 2005-06 academic year. The Northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation is the most generous provider of annual private awards to the UCSC campus and has provided more than $1…

  • New analysis puts dark matter back into elliptical galaxies

    According to the prevailing “cold dark matter” theory of the evolution of the universe, every galaxy is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that can only be detected indirectly by observing its gravitational effects. This theory faced a challenge in 2003, when a team of astronomers reported a surprising absence of dark matter in…

  • Fall Plant Sale at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum on Saturday, October 8, features Australian fuchsias and South African featherheads

    The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum will hold its annual Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 8, from noon to 4 p.m. The sale will take place at the Arboretum’s Eucalyptus Grove on High Street near the intersection with Western Drive. For gardeners on the Central Coast, fall is always a good time to get new…

  • Fall lecture series at the Seymour Center will focus on sustainable fisheries

    The Fall Lecture Series at UC Santa Cruz’s Seymour Marine Discovery Center will focus on sustainable fisheries, with six speakers providing a range of perspectives on the serious challenges facing important fisheries on the West Coast and around the world. Lecture topics will include the future of seafood, the politics of fish and the oceans,…

  • Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group funds cancer research at UC Santa Cruz

    The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group (SCCBG) has established a new fellowship to support cancer research at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The SCCBG Research Fellowship is an annual award of $10,000 to support a UCSC graduate student or postdoctoral researcher engaged in cancer-related research. The group awarded the first SCCBG Research Fellowship to…

  • UC Santa Cruz will get training grants from California stem cell institute

    The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week announced its first grant awards, including a $1.2 million training grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to establish a new training program in the systems biology of stem cells. The UCSC program will be part of a larger CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell…

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSC faculty available to discuss aspects of Katrina aftermath

    A number of faculty from UC Santa Cruz are available to discuss aspects of the post-Hurricane Katrina story. Their fields of expertise range from the science of climate change to the racial implications of the story; their contact information follows: Climate Change and Destructive Storms Lisa Sloan Professor of Earth sciences; Vice Provost and Dean…

  • UC Santa Cruz physicists describe a new mechanism for metallic magnetism

    Predicting the magnetic behavior of metallic compounds is a surprisingly difficult problem for theoretical physicists. While the properties of a common refrigerator magnet are not a great mystery, certain materials exhibit magnetic properties that do not fit within existing theories of magnetism. One such material inspired a recent theoretical breakthrough by physicists at the University…

  • New research unveils complex mechanisms that control cell growth and division

    Researchers studying the molecular mechanisms that control cell growth and division are piecing together a surprising and complicated regulatory system that offers promising targets for anticancer drugs. A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has revealed the interactions between key regulatory proteins that determine when cells initiate the process…

  • UC Santa Cruz researchers awarded grant to develop faster, cheaper DNA sequencing

    A team including researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a major grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to develop new technology for genome sequencing. The grant is part of a NHGRI program to develop “revolutionary genome sequencing technologies” that will enable a human-sized genome to be sequenced for…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025