Office of Research
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Study identifies ways to reduce flood risk while protecting natural habitat
Scientists from UC Santa Cruz and The Nature Conservancy release a timely report as forecasts indicate El Niño could bring dangerous flooding to California.
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Keck Foundation awards UC Santa Cruz $2 million for human genome variation project
The Human Genome Variation Map being developed by the UCSC Genomics Institute will be a valuable new resource for medical researchers.
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Gift to UC Santa Cruz funds new chair in water resources and food sustainability
UC Santa Cruz has received $500,000 from the Helen and Will Webster Foundation that with matching funds from UC Regents has established the Stephen R. Gliessman Presidential Chair in Water Resources and Food System Sustainability.
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Study finds surprisingly high geothermal heating beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
UC Santa Cruz team reports first direct measurement of heat flow to the bottom of the West Antarctic ice sheet
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UC Santa Cruz partners with UC Merced in nanotechnology center
Nanotechnology researchers at UC Santa Cruz are partners in a new center for nanomaterials research funded by NASA and based at UC Merced.
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Fish declines linked to effects of excess nutrients on coastal estuaries
Offshore fisheries that depend on the health of fish nurseries in coastal estuaries are adversely affected by excess nutrients in runoff from land
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Scientists discover a protein that silences the biological clock
A protein associated with cancer cells is a powerful suppressor of the clock that drives the daily rhythms of cells throughout the body.
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Dance professor fights cultural amnesia with ‘Splinters in Our Ankles’
‘Splinters in Our Ankles’ is UC Santa Cruz theater arts professor Gerald Casel’s choreographic response to what he calls “the collective cultural amnesia” about the Philippine national dance.
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Community effort provides new ‘gold standard’ for genomic data analysis
UC Santa Cruz researchers contributed to a comprehensive assessment of methods for identifying mutations in cancer genomes.
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Gifts from alum Sage Weil provide $3 million for open source research at UC Santa Cruz
Alumnus Sage Weil has established an endowed chair and provided an additional $2 million for research in open source software.
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LASER talk to explore research in environmental art, recycling, ocean medicines, and film
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences will present its final LASER talk of the academic year on campus this spring on Tuesday, May 19, at 7 p.m. in the Digital Arts Research Center.
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Against all odds: Astronomers baffled by discovery of rare quasar quartet
Astronomers discovered four quasars, each one a rare object in its own right, in close physical proximity to each other.