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The next pandemic could strike crops, not people
Environmental Studies Professor Gregory Gilbert spoke with Grist about how promoting diversity of plants in agricultural settings creates physical barriers to the spread of disease.
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An In-Depth Look at Latino History Among the Stars and Skies
Professor and Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies Catherine Ramírez spoke about Latino Futurism for a special podcast series of the National Air and Space Museum that was covered by Smithsonian Magazine.
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No Sanctuary: Animal Rescues Struggling with Climate Change
Environmental Studies Professor Mike Loik shared his insights on climate change effects and solutions with Good Times for a story about the impacts of climate change on local animal rescue operations.
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An economic strategy for India: Many bottlenecks and challenges that India faces require deeper integration across levels of govt
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh wrote an opinion column for Financial Express reflecting on India's economy in honor of the country's Independence Day.
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UCSC professor emerita of history Dana Frank was quoted in an Inside Higher Education story about the proposed name change for Cabrillo College
During the public discussion portion of a Cabrillo College Governing Board meeting covered by Inside Higher Education, Dana Frank spoke out in favor of changing the college's name. "In keeping the name, we would be teaching that it’s good to celebrate those who invaded other people’s ancestral homelands, killed and in many cases enslaved them,"…
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Disabled Music Fans Are Failed by Concert Venues and Ticketing Systems
Assistant Professor of Computational Media Kate Ringland's research is cited in a Teen Vogue story on accessibility in the live music industry.
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Wildfires once fueled extinctions in Southern California. Will it happen again?
“This paper provides a picture of how climate change can completely transform ecosystems,” said Jarmila Pittermann, a plant physiologist at UC Santa Cruz who researches extinction. “It is super-convincing and a massive warning to all of us.” Additional coverage in the Smithsonian Magazine.
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Art As a Radical Tool for Realizing Abolition
Three years into launching their multimedia initiative Visualizing Abolition, the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Professor Gina Dent and Dr. Rachel Nelson have built a consortium of musicians, scholars, and artists whose relationships to the criminal legal system vary.
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How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth
Ari Friedlaender researches whale behavior at UC Santa Cruz and has amassed a great deal of data on what behavior that could help move Earth Species closer to developing algorithms that can work across the full spectrum of the animal kingdom.
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Scientists solve the genetic puzzle of sex-related Y chromosome
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Karen Miga and UCSC genomicist and postdoc Monika Cechova were quoted extensively in coverage of the first complete sequence of a human Y chromosome. Additional coverage in CNN, STAT, Popular Science, USA Today, Business Insider, and many others.