DESI has made the largest 3-D map of our universe to date; scientists reveal new path to increasing lactation for nursing mothers; three UC Santa Cruz faculty members named 2023 AAAS fellows, and more
APRIL 2024
This month in science:
DESI has made the largest 3-D map of our universe to date; scientists reveal new path to increasing lactation for nursing mothers; three UC Santa Cruz faculty members named 2023 AAAS fellows, and more ...
Over the last five years, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has measured the spectra of more than 30 million galaxies and 3 million quasars to determine how fast the universe expanded over 11 billion years, enabling scientists to create the largest 3-D map of our cosmos to date.
The deadline is May 15 to nominate impactful alumni for UC Santa Cruz’s highest alumni honors: the Alumni Achievement Award (open to undergraduate and graduate alumni), Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award, Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, UCSC Ethos Award, and Fiat Lux Award. Let’s ensure that our Science Division alumni continue to be celebrated by the university.
After placing first in the qualifying Grad Slam at UC Santa Cruz, Natalie Pedicino, a Ph.D. student in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, will bolt up to San Francisco on May 3 to distill her past three years of research into a three-minute lightning talk that will test her stage presence and science-communication skills.
The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Science and Justice Research Center are excited to be supporting Associate Professor Karen Miga in opening up the speaker portion of her BME 80G Bioethics in the 21st Century course to the wider UC Santa Cruz community. This series will be held once a week in the Baskin Auditorium at 4pm.
