Inspiring Change: Breakthrough Research
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American Astronomical Society honors four UC Santa Cruz affiliates
At this week’s national gathering, astronomy and astrophysics professors Bryan Gaensler, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, and Connie Rockosi were honored for outstanding contributions to the field, as was alumna Kathryn Johnston
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Advanced telescope instrument for observing planet formation to be created at UC Santa Cruz
World’s first facility-grade ‘astrophotonics’ instrument to be deployed at Lick Observatory
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David Deamer and David Haussler elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
The recognition is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
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UC Santa Cruz joins NASA project probing ocean worlds for signs of life
Earth and planetary sciences professor Andrew Fisher will lead hydrogeology simulations to study how water, heat, and chemicals circulate between rocky seafloors and subsurface oceans on worlds like Europa and Enceladus
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Arts & Culture, Campus News, Climate & Sustainability, Earth & Space, Health, Social Justice & Community, Student Experience, TechnologyInspiring Change: UC Santa Cruz launches $750M campaign
The campaign is a collective effort to raise funding to accelerate the campus’s groundbreaking discoveries, create real, lasting solutions to some of the world’s most consequential challenges, and amplify the next generation of leaders and scholars.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists to develop diamond-based sensors to monitor fusion-energy generation
Diamonds can withstand the extreme radiation inside the reactor of a nuclear power plant
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UC Santa Cruz is the top public research university in the world for highly cited researchers amid strong 2025 list
25 UC Santa Cruz researchers earned a spot on the prestigious annual list.
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Nation topped goal of ‘one million more’ STEM graduates over the past decade, analysis finds
But study also warns that current threats to agencies that track such data risks future progress and global competitiveness
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Effort aims to uncover the learning and reasoning potential of brain organoids
The Braingeneers team will test the ability of brain organoids to solve tasks in real time
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New AI tool detects hidden cancer mutations
UC Santa Cruz researchers unveil DeepSomatic, a deep learning method that will help make genomic sequencing a routine part of how cancer is diagnosed and treated
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High-proof alcohol preserved century-old fish DNA to enable ‘genomic time travel’
Unusual preservative in specimen jars proved to be a sweet solution for studying changes in genetic diversity among fish populations in the Philippines since the early 1900s
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Models explain mysterious feature controlling magnetic properties of the Sun
UC Santa Cruz applied mathematicians produced the first self-consistent models of the Sun’s tachocline incorporating the correct dynamical ingredients.