Office of Research
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City, university wharf partnership earns Silicon Valley award
The GreenWharf is a suite of collaborative projects that together minimize the footprint of wharf operations on the surrounding environment while enhancing its appeal as a visitor destination.
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UC Santa Cruz receives $2.2 million for innovation and entrepreneurship program
New support program will help bring research innovations to the marketplace and spur economic development in the Santa Cruz area.
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Santa Cruz receives $450,000 grant to study economic inclusivity in emerging countries
UC Santa Cruz will test and refine the foundation’s emerging inclusive economies framework in geographic contexts and markets.
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UC Santa Cruz engineers work with Samsung on promising new memory technology
Innovations in “spintronics” have led some to predict the eventual emergence of a universal memory technology to replace all others.
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Campus inventors recognized for recent patents
The Office of Research is working to bolster patent activities and services for technology transfer, part of an effort to help faculty, students and staff commercialize inventions and discoveries.
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UC Santa Cruz team chosen to compete in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Challenge
UCSC computer scientists have won a sponsorship from Amazon to develop a “socialbot” that can converse with humans.
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Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization and DDT’s slow decay
Rising temperatures due to climate change were found to have less influence on mosquito populations than land use changes and the decay of residual DDT in the environment.
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Some bats develop resistance to devastating fungal disease
White-nose syndrome has decimated the little brown bat, but researchers found populations that appear to have developed resistance to the disease.
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UC Santa Cruz biologist Harry Noller wins $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
From antibiotics to the origins of life, Noller’s findings on the protein factories of all cells have broad implications.
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Feminist studies professor Karen Barad receives multiple honors in Europe
Karen Barad–professor of feminist studies, philosophy, and history of consciousness at UC Santa Cruz–also happens to have a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory…
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Using memory to foster well-being
Psychology Ph.D. Artie Konrad has found his dream job at Facebook, where he is a user experience researcher on the On This Day project.
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Structure of human astrovirus could lead to antiviral therapies, vaccines
Research led by structural biologist Rebecca DuBois is laying the foundation for new antiviral therapies and vaccines for human astroviruses.