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Lecturer Ryan Coonerty named UC Free Speech Fellow
Ryan Coonerty, a longtime lecturer in the Legal Studies program at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a 2020-21 fellow of UC’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
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Watch UCSC participants talk about hope during TEDx Santa Cruz
Last December, TEDx Santa Cruz hosted a day-long extravaganza of talks curated around the theme of “The Art of Hope.” Those talks, including ones by several UCSC affiliates, are now available for online viewing.
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Biologist Upasna Sharma wins prestigious Searle Scholars grant
Funding from the Searle Scholars Program will support Sharma’s research on how environmental effects can be passed down from parents to their offspring.
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UC Santa Cruz theater arts costume shop steps up to combat COVID-19
Just a couple of weeks ago, Brent Foland never imagined he’d be building face masks for his fellow UC Santa Cruz employees.
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Art in the time of COVID
UC Santa Cruz’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences offers shelter-in-place relief with a new, virtual museum called Art Without Distance, featuring sights, sounds, words, curricula, and even a quirky campus tour.
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Agroecology major available this fall
Beginning this fall, students will have an opportunity to enroll in a new agroecology major, an interdisciplinary program housed in the Environmental Studies Department.
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Delivery and ridehailing workers lack critical protections from coronavirus
Chris Benner led an online survey of app-based workers in San Francisco, and preliminary results reveal significant financial hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Cholera studies reveal mechanisms of biofilm formation and hyperinfectivity
A series of publications from microbiologist Fitnat Yildiz’s lab provides new understanding of cholera biofilms and why the bacteria in biofilms are so highly infectious.
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New high-throughput approach yields libraries of probes for immunological assays
Technical innovation enables rapid assessment of T cell repertoires for research and diagnostics, with potential applications in studying COVID-19 immune responses.
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UC Santa Cruz joins the Association of Pacific Rim Universities
Joining the organization offers UC Santa Cruz another opportunity to widen institutional partnerships and relationships on a critically important international stage.
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Planetary scientist Myriam Telus wins NASA Early Career Award
Myriam Telus, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences, has received funding from NASA through the Planetary Science Early Career Award program to support her research in cosmochemistry, the chemical analysis of extraterrestrial materials.
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New formation theory explains the mysterious interstellar object ‘Oumuamua
A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts for all of the observed characteristics of the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system.