Author: Jennifer McNulty
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Sexualization of girls is linked to common mental health problems in girls and women, says APA task force chaired by UC Santa Cruz professor
A report of the American Psychological Association (APA) released today (Monday, February 19) found evidence that the proliferation of sexualized images of girls and young women in advertising, merchandising, and media is harmful to girls’ self-image and
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SF Bay Area’s poor and minorities face disproportionate burden of exposure to environmental hazards
From African American residents of West Oakland’s diesel-choked neighborhoods to Latinos in San Francisco’s traffic-snarled Mission District, poor and minority residents of the San Francisco Bay Area get more than their share of exposure to air pollution
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UC Santa Cruz film scholar B. Ruby Rich chairs panel at Sundance Film Festival
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Film scholar B. Ruby Rich will chair a panel discussion at the Sundance Film Festival about how the counterculture has changed since the 1960s.
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Richard Musgrave, renowned pioneer of public finance, dies at 96
SANTA CRUZ, CA–Richard A. Musgrave, widely regarded as the founder of modern public finance and an adviser on fiscal policy and taxation to governments from Washington to Bogota to Tokyo, died Monday, Jan. 15.
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UC Santa Cruz honored during Ecological Farming Conference Jan. 24-27
SANTA CRUZ, CA–The contributions of UC Santa Cruz to sustainable agriculture will be in the spotlight during this year’s Ecological Farming Conference, with a focus on the 40th anniversary of the campus’s pathbreaking Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticu