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  • UCSC instructor links writing to democracy in Higher Education Exchange interview

    Don Rothman views the writing classroom as a laboratory for democracy. After 27 years of guiding teachers and 32 years of teaching college students, he is convinced that writing classes are temporary communities in which students can develop critical thinking skills and lifelong habits that can contribute to democracy. A senior writing lecturer and founding…

  • New research unveils complex mechanisms that control cell growth and division

    Researchers studying the molecular mechanisms that control cell growth and division are piecing together a surprising and complicated regulatory system that offers promising targets for anticancer drugs. A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has revealed the interactions between key regulatory proteins that determine when cells initiate the process…

  • UC Santa Cruz researchers awarded grant to develop faster, cheaper DNA sequencing

    A team including researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a major grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to develop new technology for genome sequencing. The grant is part of a NHGRI program to develop “revolutionary genome sequencing technologies” that will enable a human-sized genome to be sequenced for…

  • UC Santa Cruz dream expert featured on Discovery Channel series

    Local dream expert and UC Santa Cruz psychology instructor Veronica Tonay is featured in the upcoming new miniseries Dream Decoders, a show that helps participants and viewers understand the hidden meaning of their dreams. The series premieres on the Discovery Health Channel discoveryhealth.com on Wednesday, August 17, at 10 p.m. (E.T./P.T.) and will air in…

  • UCSC Professor Emeritus William Friedland honored for lifetime achievement

    William Friedland, whose research revealed the “cozy” relationship between UC’s agricultural researchers and the state’s powerful farming interests, is being honored for his contributions during the Rural Sociological Society’s annual meeting August 8-12 in Tampa, Florida. “For me, the university has been a remarkable place–that’s the only way to describe it,” said Friedland, a professor…

  • Discovery of planet with a massive core lends support to a planet formation theory

    Astronomers have discovered an extrasolar planet with the largest core of any known planet. The discovery is especially exciting to planet formation theorists, because it provides extremely strong observational evidence in support of the “core accretion” theory, one of two main theories for how giant planets form. The findings were made by a consortium of…

  • Department of Energy grants fund work on new hydrogen fuel technologies at UCSC

    Nanotechnology may hold the key to developing a viable hydrogen economy, according to Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Zhang will receive $535,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for his part in two research projects aimed at developing new technologies for the production…

  • UC Santa Cruz biologist receives Fulbright Scholar award

    Ingrid Parker, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and do research at the University of Panama during the 2005-06 academic year. The grant will support Parker’s work on a project titled “Applied plant ecology in Panama: Building intellectual…

  • UCSC takes over operation of NASA Ames Airborne Sensor Facility

    The University of California, Santa Cruz, has taken over the operation of NASA’s Airborne Sensor Facility, a major program for observation and monitoring of Earth’s environment based at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field. The transfer of management strengthens the links between NASA and UCSC and will enhance the campus’s remote sensing capability and…

  • New findings show a slow recovery from extreme global warming episode 55 million years ago

    Most of the excess carbon dioxide pouring into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels will ultimately be absorbed by the oceans, but it will take about 100,000 years. That is how long it took for ocean chemistry to recover from a massive input of carbon dioxide 55 million years ago, according to a…

  • Exploding star left no visible core

    In 1987, earthbound observers saw a star explode in the nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomers eagerly studied this supernova–the closest seen in the past 300 years–and have continued to examine its remains. Although its blast wave lit up surrounding clouds of gas and dust, the supernova appears to have left no…

  • Patented technology captures carbon dioxide from power plants

    Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have invented a new method for controlling the emission of carbon dioxide from power plants. The technique, which mimics natural weathering processes, converts carbon dioxide gas into soluble compounds that can be disposed of in the oceans. Any strategy for…

Last modified: Mar 18, 2025