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Diverse scents of woodland star wildflowers driven by coevolution with pollinators
Scientists found a surprising diversity of floral scent compounds produced by different species of woodland stars and even by populations of the same species in different locations.
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Campus awarded grant for bike path safety improvements, education
UC Santa Cruz was awarded a $799,000 grant from the California Transportation Commission, funding that will go toward widening most of the bike path through the Great Meadow and expanding bike safety educational efforts.
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Novel electrocatalyst outperforms platinum in alkaline hydrogen production
A ruthenium-based catalyst developed at UC Santa Cruz has potential applications in sustainable hydrogen production for clean energy and in industrial processes.
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Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen receives Foundation Medal
UC Santa Cruz presented Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen with the Foundation Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the campus.
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Question Bridge: Black Males exhibition opens Feb. 6 at Sesnon Art Gallery
‘Question Bridge: Black Males’ is an exhibition in which a wide array of videos have been merged together to simulate face-to-face conversations between a diverse group of more than 160 black men across the United States.
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Study of brine discharge from desalination plant finds good news and bad news
Brine discharged from the Carlsbad Desalination Plant raises offshore salinity levels more than permitted, but researchers found no direct local impacts on sea life.
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Jody Greene and Mary Beth Pudup named to inaugural board of UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement
UC Santa Cruz professors Jody Greene and Mary Beth Pudup are among 19 leading University of California scholars who have been named to the inaugural academic advisory board of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
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Why beaked whales return to Navy sonar range despite frequent disturbance
A new study using underwater robots reveals dense patches of deep-sea squid attract beaked whales to a Navy sonar test range off Southern California.
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MaNGA data release includes detailed maps of thousands of nearby galaxies
Major data release from Sloan Digital Sky Survey includes galaxy maps, new data access and visualization tools, and a huge ‘stellar library’.
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Madeleine Albright in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning UCSC alumna Martha Mendoza on Feb. 5
Madeleine Albright, the first United States female Secretary of State, will speak about her new book, “Fascism: A Warning”–in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UC Santa Cruz alumna Martha Mendoza–on Tuesday, February 5, at the at the Kaiser Permanente…
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‘What refugees taught me about Shakespeare’
On Jan. 31, New York theater director Jessica Bauman will come to campus for a special evening at Kresge Town Hall titled ‘What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare.’ Together with UCSC professor Cat Ramirez, she will explore the ways that…
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Art professor receives 2019 Creative Capital Award plus SFFILM artist residency for new documentary film
UC Santa Cruz professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones has received a 2019 Creative Capital Award for “Run With It,” a feature-length animated documentary film she is currently working on in collaboration with San Francisco artist Nomi Talisman.
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Gov. Newsom appoints UCSC alumna Kris Perry to key post
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed UC Santa Cruz alumna Kris Perry, a nationally recognized advocate for children, to a key post in his new administration.
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Questions That Matter public humanities series to spotlight ‘Data and Democracy’ at Kuumbwa Center
The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz will present “Data and Democracy”—the fifth installment of its signature Questions That Matter series—on Tuesday, January 29, at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz.
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Waves in Saturn’s rings give precise measurement of planet’s rotation rate
Saturn’s ring system acts as a sensitive seismograph, enabling scientists to measure the giant planet’s vibrations and determine its rotation rate.
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Grad student working to advance Beyond Compliance initiative
Across the world, graduate student Alison Hanson has focused on preventing and responding to sexual violence. She’s now bringing her expertise to UC Santa Cruz, where she’s part of the campus Beyond Compliance initiative.
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Idled farmland presents habitat restoration opportunities in San Joaquin Desert
Land no longer suitable for agriculture could be reclaimed as habitat for dozens of endangered species, according to a new analysis.
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Janet Yellen: Honoring a living legend
Janet Yellen, widely regarded as one of the most successful Federal Reserve chairs in history, will receive the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal at a ceremony in Menlo Park next month.
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Upper-ocean warming is changing the global wave climate, making waves stronger
The energy in ocean waves has been increasing as a consequence of climate change, according to a new study.
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Professor honored by Linguistic Society of America for decades of work on endangered languages
UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor of linguistics Judith Aissen was awarded the prestigious Kenneth L. Hale Award last week in New York City at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). The LSA is the major…
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Biologist Jeremy Sanford awarded prestigious $1.85 million grant from NIH
MIRA grant funds Sanford to extend his studies of the mechanisms of RNA processing and RNA-binding proteins, which are involved in inherited diseases and cancer.
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Institute of Arts and Sciences to present talk by politically provocative artist Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon is perhaps best known for his landmark series of text-based paintings, which draw on the words of such diverse figures as Richard Pryor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gertrude Stein. On Jan. 15, the Institute of Arts and Sciences…
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NSF funds innovative stable isotope equipment at UC Santa Cruz
The new equipment will support research across a wide range of disciplines, ranging from oceanography and earth science, paleontology, anthropology, ecology and fundamental biochemical cycle research.
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Isaí Ambrosio named UCSC’s inaugural “activist-in-residence”
Isaí Ambrosio is going back to school in January. The program director of the Davenport Resource Service Center (DRSC) has been named the inaugural activist-in-residence of UCSC’s Research Center for the Americas (RCA).
