$7.5M awarded for salmon-recovery science; more efficient chemical process for producing biodiesel discovered; Emily Brodsky discusses earthquake mechanics, and more...
NOVEMBER 2024
This month in science:
$7.5M awarded for salmon-recovery science; more efficient chemical process for producing biodiesel discovered; Emily Brodsky discusses earthquake mechanics, and more ...
UC Santa Cruz has received nearly $7.5 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to vault scientific research on imperiled Pacific salmon populations into one of the nation’s most powerful collaborations between the agency and academia to save the vital species.
Fundamental teaching strategies of making room for failure, and being explicit and transparent about how students’ knowledge will be assessed, combine to create an atmosphere that is more conducive to learning than traditional forms of physics instruction.
If ultimately fully funded, a new program led by chemistry professors Ted Holman and Laura Sanchez will identify 10 students at Monterey Peninsula College interested in STEM, and then guide them through targeted curriculum that will prepare them to transfer to UC Santa Cruz the fall of their junior year.
In this Kraw Lecture, Professor J. Xavier Prochaska will describe the rise of large datasets in astronomy and oceanography on the sky and ocean and then explain how AI enables scientists to perform unprecedented analyses. Prochaska will speculate on the future of scientific pursuit accelerated by ChatGPT and its friends.
DECEMBER 6 | 3–6 p.m. | SANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY
With curiosity and passion, scientists have worn the white coats with pride since 1860. Those white coats you see there represent people who aimed to help society with their discoveries. They, day by day, also help people be their best selves by mentoring younger generations. Please join us to explore what is behind those white coats, a multitude of cultures, identities, and more.
In this webinar, Daniel Kim, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, will discuss how he uncovered cancer-specific RNA profiles in patients’ blood, enabling him to develop RNA liquid biopsy technology for early cancer detection.
