Office of Research
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Percolating ideas
Grad student Sarah Beganskas is studying what could become part of the solution to California’s water crisis: collecting storm runoff so it can seep into the ground instead of being diverted to rivers and seas.
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Astronomer Jonathan Fortney prepares for Cassini mission’s grand finale
NASA has tapped Fortney to support the final act of its Cassini mission and serve on a science team starting to plan for a potential future mission to Uranus or Neptune.
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UCSC student entrepreneurs headed for major international trade show
Developers of a robotic camera system will join the UC delegation to the Hannover Messe, the world’s biggest industrial fair.
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Student entrepreneurs pitch business ideas at annual showcase in Silicon Valley
This year’s Business Design Showcase competition in Silicon Valley featured 16 entries.
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UC Santa Cruz art professor Dee Hibbert-Jones wins 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
UC Santa Cruz associate professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones has been awarded a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship in film and video.
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UC Santa Cruz receives $1 million to support Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Alumnus Nion McEvoy has donated $1 million to support programming for UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences over the next five years.
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Student entrepreneurs pitch startups at the fourth annual Business Design Showcase
About 16 teams are expected to participate in the annual event that draws together some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent entrepreneurs.
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BRCA Exchange aggregates publicly accessible data on breast cancer genes
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute led development of a web portal for patients, clinicians, and researchers.
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Grad students face off in second annual Grad Slam competition April 6
Ten graduate students will face off April 6 in the second annual Grad Slam competition, a spirited forum during which doctoral students present their research in three minutes.
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An eccentric ‘hot Jupiter’ yields clues to planet formation and evolution
Astronomers investigate how some gas giant planets end up so feverishly close to their stars.
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Study shows biodiversity benefits of removing invasive mammals from islands
A global study documents conservation gains from efforts to eradicate invasive species from island ecosystems.
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Current rate of carbon emissions is unprecedented in past 66 million years
New analysis shows that carbon emissions from human activities are moving the Earth’s climate system into uncharted territory.