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Scientists reconstruct genome of common ancestor of crocodiles, birds, dinosaurs
A new study of crocodilian genomes led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz reveals an exceptionally slow rate of genome evolution.
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UC Santa Cruz leads UC effort to study effects of climate change on ecosystems
A $1.9 million grant from the new UC President’s Research Catalyst Awards will fund a UC-wide institute on climate impacts.
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New fiction by alumna author featured in New Yorker
“Savage Breast,” a new short story by UC Santa Cruz alumna Elizabeth McKenzie, will be featured in the December 15 issue of The New Yorker magazine.
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UC Santa Cruz professor honored by San Francisco Film Society
UC Santa Cruz arts professor B. Ruby Rich was honored at the San Francisco Film Society’s fifth annual Essential SF, an event celebrating the Bay Area film community’s most vital figures and institutions.
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Student robotics competition on Dec. 12 features “Game of Thrones” theme
Small autonomous robots built by UC Santa Cruz engineering students will face off in “Game of Drones” competition.
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Lick Observatory plans major upgrade for Shane Telescope
UC Santa Cruz received $350,000 in grant and donor funds for an upgrade of the Kast Spectrograph, a crucial instrument for UC astronomers.
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Study of deadly bat disease finds surprising seasonal pattern of infections
White-nose syndrome fungus can infect an entire bat colony during hibernation, but surviving bats clear the infection after they become active.
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Campus food drive launches for holiday season
Another holiday season is upon us, and with it comes our annual UC Santa Cruz Holiday Food Drive which works in cooperation with Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County providing healthy meals to our friends and neighbors in need.
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Scott Hernandez-Jason named director of news and media relations at UC Santa Cruz
Scott Hernandez-Jason has joined UC Santa Cruz as director of news and media relations. His first day was Monday, December 1.
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Composting bins promote a handy diversion toward 2020 zero-waste goal
The first zero-waste stations at McHenry Library are in place, another step toward a goal of making the campus zero-waste by 2020.
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Sea otter at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Lab turns 21 years old
Stranded as a pup in 1993, Taylor turned 21 this month, far exceeding the average life span for a southern sea otter
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Hubble observations deepen mystery of how globular clusters form
New findings are at odds with leading theories for the formation of globular clusters of stars in galaxies