Faculty
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New program advises UCSC Ph.D. students on their path to entrepreneurship and venture capital
Many student-led innovations never make it out of the lab. A new program at UC Santa Cruz aims to change that by mentoring Ph.D. students in the life sciences on alternative career pathways outside academia: entrepreneurship and venture capital.
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Community health guidance for returning from spring break
As you prepare to return to campus and begin spring quarter, we write to share community health guidance as related to COVID-19.
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A scholar in his own community: Kevin Weatherwax
Computational Media Ph.D. student Kevin Weatherwax’s research is supported through the Piatt Fellowship, a scholarship for doctoral students from Santa Cruz County.
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Humans and housing density are the leading cause of death for local pumas
Two new studies involving UC Santa Cruz researchers are shedding light on the challenges facing local pumas where humans are encroaching on their natural habitats.
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Honoring the contributions of Gordon Moore
Science has lost one of its greatest champions with the death of Gordon Moore, a visionary engineer whose pioneering work on semiconductors set the stage for a technological revolution that changed the world in countless ways and enabled research breakthroughs in fields far and wide.
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Grant funds Sarker’s aquaculture sustainability research
Pallab Sarker received a foundation grant fund from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, amounting to $170,947 over three years to strengthen his lab’s ecological aquaculture work.
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Pedroza received Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant
Assistant Professor Juan Manuel Pedroza aims to learn more about these challenges and speak to them, with the help of a recently awarded grant from the Russell Sage Foundation.
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Thankful for our community
We are so proud to be part of our outstanding Banana Slug community.
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Center for Labor and Community opens on UC Santa Cruz campus
Scholars studying the economic and social impacts of a variety of labor and employment issues facing workers in Santa Cruz and the Monterey Bay Area just announced the opening of a new center on campus that will provide timely and policy-relevant labor research, will educate the next generation of labor and community leaders and will…
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Computer engineering research prompts bug fixes, updates to major GPU frameworks
A new suite of GPU tests developed by Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Tyler Sorensen and his students led to changes to an important GPU framework for programming web browsers.
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Celebrating and Observing Ramadan, Easter and Passover
As we begin the spring quarter on April 3, Muslim, Jewish and Christian community members may observe Ramadan, Passover and Easter, respectively. These holidays will take place over the next month.