Social Sciences
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A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds
Anthropology Professor Dolly Kikon was part of a delegation of 20 Indigenous Naga leaders, elders and scholars that recently visited the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford to advocate for repatriating the hundreds of human remains in the collection back to Naga ancestral lands on the Indian subcontinent.
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Class action lawsuit shines a harsh spotlight on Manitoba’s use of solitary confinement
Craig Haney, the plaintiffs’ expert and a psychology professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, toured Manitoba correctional facilities. “In terms of harshness and the risk of harm to which they subject prisoners, (Manitoba facilities) rivaled anything I have observed in some of the worst solitary confinement units in the United States,” Haney wrote in a…
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UC Santa Cruz medical training partnership with UC Davis to launch with 6 students in 2027
UC Santa Cruz is launching a new medical training program in partnership with UC Davis, aiming to address a regional physician shortage and lay the groundwork for a future UCSC medical school.
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Las turberas: el desconocido ecosistema que puede almacenar hasta 10 veces más carbono que los bosques amazónicos y que existe en Colombia
Colombian newspaper El Tiempo interviewed Environmental Studies Professor Scott Winton and Ph.D. student Edmundo Mendoza about their research uncovering peatlands across Colombia that provide important carbon sequestration ecosystem services.
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The sticky study of sunblocking a warming planet
Secrecy about solar geoengineering breeds disinformation, said Sikina Jinnah, an environmental studies professor at UC Santa Cruz. “We don’t want to have a potential tool in our toolbox excluded from consideration because people misunderstand what it is,” she said.
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Enfoque California: Impacto de la Ley Grande y Hermosa de Trump sobre impuestos y Medicaid
Associate Professor of Sociology Juan Pedroza joined Telemundo’s Enfoque California program to discuss Trump Administration immigration policies and the repercussions of ICE activities in communities.
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Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.
“It’s absolutely imperative to engage with both local communities and broader publics around not just the work that is being proposed or is being planned, but also the broader implications of that work,” said environmental studies professor Sikina Jinnah.
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County’s ancient Indigenous sites face new threat as California eases environmental rules to spur housing development
“Cultural resources are finite resources that can provide unparalleled opportunities to learn about human history generally,” said Tsim Schneider, an archaeologist and associate professor at UC Santa Cruz.
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The Mistake Parents Make With Chores
Saying “Let’s do this together” can make a task more engaging, according to distinguished professor of psychology Barbara Rogoff, who has studied how children learn from participating in household activities.
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Texas is trying a new kind of death row – one with a sense of community
“The basic harmfulness of solitary confinement is now a largely settled scientific fact,” said University of California, Santa Cruz psychology professor Craig Haney.
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The spectacle presidency: How Trump governs through distraction
Nolan Higdon, a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department, argues that the phrase “about two weeks” has become a hallmark of Trump’s communication style.
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Blue States Invest Retirees’ Savings in Firms Boosting Trump’s Extreme Agenda
Mike McCarthy, director of UC Santa Cruz’s Community Studies Program, noted the “tremendous lack of democracy in [pension] funds,” adding: “There’s a lack of any oversight from workers about how these funds are invested.”