Social Sciences
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UCSC study links immigration status to COVID deaths, survival rate
“This was the first study to really link immigration status and make it possible to link legal immigration status to excess death rates,” said Alicia Riley, and associate professor of sociology and core faculty member in the Global and Community Health Program.
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Nagaland University hosts workshop on ‘Ecologies of care’
UC Santa Cruz cohosted the workshop, and Professor Dolly Kikon, director of Center for South Asian Studies, introduced the initiative as a collaborative dialogue to explore the Himalayan region’s various intersections, expressions and care practices.
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Hamptons real estate scam allegations raised red flags for years
The lawsuits filed by many of the homebuyers are also notable because they involve plaintiffs who had the cash to purchase homes but lacked access to traditional lenders, said Juan Manuel Pedroza, a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Fishmeal and fish oil alternatives are here but a greater scale is needed for true impact
“Eighty seven percent of fishmeal and 74 percent of fish oil are consumed by the aquaculture feed industry, and the salmon sector is the largest user of both,” Assistant Professor Pallab Sarker at UC Santa Cruz told the Advocate. “This use of wild-caught fish to raise carnivorous species is concerning because of the depletion of…
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As farmworkers face longer, hotter harvest seasons, their risk of heat-related illness grows
Matt Sparke, co-director of the global and community health program, is creating an app that maps health risks related to climate change. The app can be used by community health workers, farmworkers, and policy makers.
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New FAIR Plan data reveals problem with zoning restrictions in California
UC Santa Cruz researchers argue that rapid population growth and development in WUIs throughout the country, but especially in California, has been driven by an affordable housing crisis.
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Enfoque California: El impacto del estatus migratorio durante una crisis de salud
Associate Professor of Sociology and Global and Community Health Alicia Riley joined Telemundo’s Enfoque California program to discuss her recent research on how immigration status affected mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.