CNN follows Friedlaender lab in studying humpback whales, chemists use peptides from Alzheimer’s and Type II diabetes to describe five new rippled beta-sheets, Roxanne Beltran and Jacqueline Kimmey named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows, and more...
FEBRUARY 2024
This month in science:
CNN follows Friedlaender lab in studying humpback whales, chemists use peptides from Alzheimer’s and Type II diabetes to describe five new rippled beta-sheets, Roxanne Beltran and Jacqueline Kimmey named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows, and more...
CNN followed an international team of whale experts throughout 2023, from Ari Friedlaender’s lab at the University of California at Santa Cruz to humpback breeding grounds off the Pacific coast of Colombia, and their feeding grounds at the bottom of the world. While Friedlaender has been collecting whale data for more than 25 years, his work found new relevance after a team of economists from the International Monetary Fund estimated a single baleen whale provides about $2 million worth of Earth services, both in life and death.
UC Santa Cruz was recently awarded a 2024 SEA Change Initiative Institutional Bronze Award. This award recognizes the university’s commitment to long-term, sustainable institutional transformation in support of DEI in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine through self-assessment.
Patrick O. Brown, MD, PhD will speak at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz on March 14. In 2010, Pat dedicated his focus on the roots of climate change and founded Impossible Foods to replace beef as a major carbon emitter on earth.
