News Article
-
UCSC music lecturer nominated for a Grammy Award
UCSC music lecturer and percussionist William Winant has been nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Small Ensemble Performance category for his work on ‘The Ten Thousand Things’ by John Cage.
-
Astrophysicist Piero Madau wins Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Piero Madau, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, has been chosen to receive the 2014 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.
-
New technique allows ‘nanobiopsies’ of living cells
UCSC researchers have developed a robotic “nanobiopsy” system that can extract tiny samples from inside a living cell without killing it.
-
UCSC alumni glow in TV spotlight
It’s been a hot week in Hollywood for two former students at UC Santa Cruz.
-
DANM student nominated for four Independent Game Festival Awards
Deirdra ‘Squinky’ Kiai–a first-year student in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media MFA program (DANM)–has been named a finalist in four categories of the 2014 Independent Game Festival Awards.
-
Decline of large carnivores creates dire environmental ripple effect
UC Santa Cruz environmental researchers contributed to an analysis of 31 carnivore species that shows for the first time how habitat loss, persecution by humans, and loss of prey combine to create global hotspots of carnivore decline.
-
Tobacco-free policy took effect on January 1
A ban on smoking on the UC Santa Cruz campus took effect on January 1, as the campus and other UC schools joined more than 1,000 universities and colleges nationwide that are making tobacco-free environments the new normal.
-
Crowd sourcing effort helps build Zimmerman Scholarship fund
A scholarship fund in Gabe Zimmerman’s honor has grown to nearly $80,000 and is poised to grow further from an innovative crowd sourcing effort launched January 8, the third anniversary of the UCSC alumnus’s death.
-
UCSC grad student’s book on Tibet earning acclaim from press in India
Three months ago, a new book by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa—a graduate student in literature at UC Santa Cruz—was launched in Dharamsala, India, by the prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile…
-
Cancer Genomics Hub adds childhood cancer data
Researchers studying the genetics of childhood cancers now have access to a large and growing set of genomic data through UCSC’s Cancer Genomics Hub.
-
UCSC astronomers discover ultra-bright young galaxies
Astronomers have discovered four surprisingly bright galaxies that are among the earliest and most distant galaxies ever observed.
-
World’s most powerful exoplanet camera looks skyward
Much of the key technology for the Gemini Planet Imager was demonstrated and validated at UCSC’s Laboratory for Adaptive Optics.