A young Hawaiian monk seal is providing researchers at UC Santa Cruz a rare opportunity to study the physiology of this critically endangered species.
In the most comprehensive study of animal evolution ever attempted, an international consortium of scientists plans to assemble a genomic zoo--a collection of DNA sequences for 10,000 vertebrate species, approximately one for every vertebrate genus.
One of the top physics students in Mexico is spending this summer studying astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz as the first winner of the John Bahcall Award, established by UCSC astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz to honor his mentor.
A Cancer Genomics Browser developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz provides a new way to visualize and analyze data from studies aimed at improving cancer treatment by unraveling the complex genetic roots of the disease.
Last winter, government agencies killed one third of Yellowstone National Park's bison herd due to concerns about the possible spread of a livestock disease to cattle that graze in areas around the park. Such drastic measures may be unnecessary, however, according to researchers who have assessed the risk of disease transmission from Yellowstone bison to cattle.
Students at UC Santa Cruz majoring in computer game design--an interdisciplinary program that provides a rigorous background in the technical, artistic, and narrative elements of creating interactive computer games--are the lucky beneficiaries of a settlement reached in a class action lawsuit involving video gaming employees at Sony.
From polling and party politics to taxes and global warming, the following experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are available to discuss the hot topics this election season.
Wildlife biologist Glenn Stewart is both pleased and amused at the huge popularity of the webcams he has set up to allow people to watch peregrine falcons in action.
What kind of injury is an insult? What is its role in social and legal life? In his new book, Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults, Humanities Professor Jerome Neu examines how notions of insult shape our beliefs about character, honor, free speech, social interaction, and law.
Countries around the world are embracing the jury system in a wave of judicial reform that is democratizing jurisprudence in nations as diverse as South Korea, Mexico, and Japan, according to UC Santa Cruz jury expert Hiroshi Fukurai.
Like a marketer's dream come true, Americans have responded to environmental hazards by shopping, as if buying bottled water and organic vegetables will protect them and their loved ones, but "buying green" offers little real defense, says sociologist Andrew Szasz.
A massive project to map a distant region of the Universe in multiple wavelengths--from x-rays through ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and radio waves--is releasing its data this week to both fellow scientists and the general public. It is the first data release from the AEGIS survey and the first release of multiwavelength data to take advantage of the capabilities of Google Sky.
The online reference site Wikipedia enjoys immense popularity despite nagging doubts about the reliability of entries written by its all-volunteer team. A new program developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aims to help with the problem by color-coding an entry's individual phrases based on contributors' past performance.
A team of researchers has documented major changes in the behavior, ecology, and geographic range of the northern fur seal over the past 1,500 years using a combination of techniques from archaeology, biochemistry, and ecology. Among their findings is evidence of reproductive behavior in the past that is not seen in modern populations of northern fur seals.
The University of California, Santa Cruz, received $157,000 from the Sunlight Foundation to support an online, open-source archive of U.S. House and Senate proceedings created by two graduate students--part of grants totaling $267,000 the foundation has distributed to advance transparency and openness in Congress.
HP has joined UC Santa Cruz and NASA in a new venture focused on developing revolutionary science breakthroughs in the coming decades. As the first industry affiliate of the Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute (BIN-RDI), a collaborative venture led by UCSC at its Silicon Valley Center, HP will play a key role in establishing the institute's policies and priorities.
Tattooing"¦piercing"¦anorexia"¦self-cutting"¦plastic surgery"¦body-building"¦the use of life extension technologies: A new book coedited by UC Santa Cruz professors explores our fascination with altering our bodies, offering a fresh perspective on the widespread and dramatic changes that have taken place over the past two decades in attitudes about the body.
Graduate students in history at UC Santa Cruz have developed a new globalized model curriculum for college-level survey courses in U.S. history. Under the direction of UC Santa Cruz history professor and UC Presidential Chair Edmund Burke III, four UCSC graduate students recently introduced the new curriculum through a panel titled "Globalizing the U.S. History Survey" presented at the 15th annual summer conference of the World History Association in Long Beach.
Quantum mechanics, one of the most successful theories in all of science, says some strange things about the fundamental nature of the world. In a new book, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness, physicists Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner present a clear exposition and entertaining discussion of the baffling mysteries of quantum physics.
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has approved a new major in computer game design, the first of its kind in the UC system. The new major, leading to a B.S. degree, provides students with a rigorous background in the technical, artistic, and narrative elements of creating interactive computer games.
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