Office of Research
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UC Santa Cruz receives $191,000 grant to benefit grad students in humanities, arts, social sciences
UC Santa Cruz is one of five universities nationwide selected by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to be part of its new University Initiative program.
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Diversity, inclusivity key to a growing economy
The face of small business is shifting. From 2007–2012, Latino-owned businesses in the U.S. grew by 34.5 percent and African American-owned enterprises grew by 46.3 percent. A quarter of all new businesses were started by immigrants.
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GameSpace offers a playable visualization of 16,000 videogames
UCSC researchers developed the game as a tool to help people find information about videogames.
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Film professor contributes to new PBS documentary on race in America
UC Santa Cruz assistant professor of film and digital media Jennifer Maytorena Taylor has produced one of several short pieces that comprise The Talk: Race in America, a new film premiering Feb. 20 on PBS.
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Astronomy team releases planet-search data, finds more than 100 candidates
The HIRES spectrometer, designed and built by UCSC astronomer Steven Vogt, has been a planet-hunting workhorse for over two decades.
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Music professor receives patent to help fight bark beetles ravaging Western forests
UC Santa Cruz music professor David Dunn has joined forces with two forest scientists from Northern Arizona University to combat an insect infestation that is killing millions of trees throughout the West.
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Drought identified as key to severity of West Nile virus epidemics
Researchers found that drought dramatically increases the severity of West Nile virus epidemics in the United States.
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Black hole meal sets record for length and size
New observations confirm a theoretical model developed by UCSC astrophysicists of a black hole tearing apart a star.
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Marlene Tromp selected as UC Santa Cruz campus provost and executive vice chancellor
Tromp will serve as the chief academic officer and provide academic leadership to UC Santa Cruz.
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Sandra Chung to deliver 51st annual Faculty Research Lecture
UC Santa Cruz professor of linguistics Sandra Chung will deliver the 51st annual Faculty Research Lecture on Tuesday, February 7, at 7 p.m. at the Music Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Complex.
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UC Santa Cruz launches Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies
UC Santa Cruz has established an endowed chair to honor the person most responsible for the thriving Jewish Studies program that exists on the campus today.
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End of the pipeline
In a new book, Professor Flora Lu looks at the oil industry’s impact on the Waorani, an indigenous Ecuadorian population living in a region renowned for its ecological diversity.