https://news.ucsc.edu/rss/press_releases_page.html?utm_medium=rsshttps://news.ucsc.edu/rss/press_releases_page.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 23 Apr 2025 05:18:39 -0700Santa CruzAssistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton conducted three years of extensive fieldwork to develop the first data-driven map of both newly documented and predicted peatlands across Colombia’s eastern lowlands. https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/colombia-peatlands.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 15 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/colombia-peatlands.html?utm_medium=rssUC Santa Cruz scientists worked with Colossal Biosciences to help reveal secrets in the dire wolf genome that contributed to what the startup is calling the world’s first de-extinctionhttps://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/dire-wolf-genome.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 14 Apr 2025 07:05:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/dire-wolf-genome.html?utm_medium=rssNew documentary inspired by Professor Chris Benner's co-authored book “Charging Forward” explores environmental justice across Argentina, Chile, and California.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/power-in-the-desert.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/power-in-the-desert.html?utm_medium=rssAn upcoming concert series organized by the University of California, Santa Cruz Music Department embodies the theme of trans-cultural identity through both experimental and traditional music. https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/april-in-santa-cruz.html?utm_medium=rssFri, 11 Apr 2025 10:05:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/april-in-santa-cruz.html?utm_medium=rssUC Santa Cruz’s Center for Labor and Community will partner with the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO on a state grant to educate workers across the Central Coast in sectors like agriculture, hospitality, construction, manufacturing, and retail. https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/california-worker-outreach-program-grant.html?utm_medium=rssFri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/california-worker-outreach-program-grant.html?utm_medium=rssA biomolecular engineering course has recently been redesigned to give students experience with the entire process of DNA sequencing, from sampling to data analysis, using the latest nanopore devices from Oxford Nanopore Technologies.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/sequencing-bme23l.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 10 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/sequencing-bme23l.html?utm_medium=rssThe biological research of UC Santa Cruz’s Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on two key proteins that choreograph the delicate dance between chromosomes when sexual-reproduction cells divide.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/chromosome-crossover-control.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 09 Apr 2025 12:40:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/chromosome-crossover-control.html?utm_medium=rssThe SETI Institute has honored David Deamer, an emeritus professor of biomolecular engineering, with its Drake Awardhttps://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/deamer-seti-award.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/deamer-seti-award.html?utm_medium=rssAssistant Professor Carlos Martinez's latest co-edited book explores the public health impacts of punitive policing, incarceration, and deportation policies and describes how the abolitionist health justice movement is working toward a new, more just vision of “safety” that protects, rather than harms, the health and wellbeing of our society’s most vulnerable people. https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/public-health-impacts-prisons.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 08 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/public-health-impacts-prisons.html?utm_medium=rssThe Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Silicon Valley luminaries including the tech icons behind Google and Facebook, named UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Rebecca Jensen-Clem and former postdoctoral researcher Maaike van Kooten as co-recipients of the early-career New Horizons in Physics Prize.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/breakthrough-prize-winners.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 07 Apr 2025 17:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/breakthrough-prize-winners.html?utm_medium=rssStephanie F. Valadez blended together her latin heritage with her experience in motherhood to compose a concert that embodies who she is. This free performance at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall, was organized by Valadez and Dr. Russell Rodriguez, an assistant professor of music.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/mecate-ensemble.html?utm_medium=rssFri, 04 Apr 2025 11:55:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/mecate-ensemble.html?utm_medium=rssThe Arts Division is welcoming Connie Sheu, an esteemed guitarist, to campus for a performance that is free and open to the public. The April 18 show will demonstrate Sheu’s deep commitment to the guitar’s rich tradition, and her dynamic approach to showcasing works from the classical repertoire.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/connie-sheu-guitar.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 03 Apr 2025 12:30:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/connie-sheu-guitar.html?utm_medium=rssUC Santa Cruz leaders last week formally recognized the university’s burgeoning relationship with the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) through the signing of a memorandum of understanding. The agreement highlights a commitment by both institutions to develop cooperative research and cultural initiatives, and faculty and student exchanges.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/uabc-mou.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/uabc-mou.html?utm_medium=rssUsing in-vitro models of a specific type of brain cell, scientists show that neurons are capable of changing from one type to another.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/mostajo-radji-iscience.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/mostajo-radji-iscience.html?utm_medium=rssThree UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been named new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS awarded the lifetime honor to professors David Deamer, Theodore Holman, and Raphael Kudela on March 27.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/2024-aaas-fellows.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 27 Mar 2025 07:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/2024-aaas-fellows.html?utm_medium=rssFor the second year in a row, UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai was the fastest student to solve the National Security Administration’s (NSA) codebreaker challenge. https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/codebreaker-challenge-24.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 26 Mar 2025 08:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/codebreaker-challenge-24.html?utm_medium=rssAs more companies and governments issue often unpopular return-to-office mandates, there’s still very little evidence about how remote work compares to in-person settings, especially when it comes to communication, which is the foundation of collaboration. Psychology researchers at UC Santa Cruz have been working to fill in the gaps by investigating the nuances of virtual communication. https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/workplace-virtual-communications.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/workplace-virtual-communications.html?utm_medium=rssMany have seen the newest mural on campus, Danza a la Rebeldía (Dance as Rebellion), but now is the chance to learn more about it. On April 15 alumni muralists Irene Juarez-O’Connell and Victor Cervantes will join John Jota Leaños, a professor of Film and Digital Media and the assistant dean of Diversity Equity and Inclusion for the Arts Division, for a discussion about the work.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/danza-a-la-rebeldia.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/danza-a-la-rebeldia.html?utm_medium=rssProfessionals in arts disciplines know there is always a way to make a living doing what you love, and the award-winning faculty and alumni from UC Santa Cruz are here to prove it. Find Your Path!, an annual event hosted by the Arts Division brings together professionals from a variety of fields for a two-day seminar that helps students learn about potential pathways to success.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/find-your-path.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/find-your-path.html?utm_medium=rssUsing CRISPR-based engineering methods to prompt stem cells to organize into embryo-like structures, scientists at UC Santa Cruz were able to create “programmable” cellular models of embryos without ever experimenting with any actual embryos.https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/shariati-cellstemcell-25.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 20 Mar 2025 08:00:00 -0700https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/03/shariati-cellstemcell-25.html?utm_medium=rss