Media Coverage

  • NBC News

    Judge weighs whether Trump violated federal law by deploying National Guard to LA 

    Dana Frank, Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed in an NBC report on state and federal governments giving their final arguments over the legality of President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Southern California.

  • Metro Silicon Valley

    The AI Bump

    Across Silicon Valley, educational institutions are launching focused credential programs in AI-related roles. UC Santa Cruz Extension offers U.C.–approved certificate tracks in AI application development and prompt engineering, accessible to current professionals and non‑technical learners alike. 

  • Smithsonian Magazine

    Five Astounding Ways Humans Are Driving Animal Evolution, Including Causing Lizards to Grow Longer Legs and Leading Moth Populations to Become Darker

    Eric Palkovacs, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, says that fishermen often have a financial incentive to target and catch the largest fish.“That’s a direct selective pressure against large size,” he says, “and because fish get larger when they get older it’s also a selection against old age.”

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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. 

  • San Francisco Chronicle

    Where do UC alumni land jobs? See the list of companies for every campus

    The San Francisco Chronicle shared data about the top employers of recent UC Santa Cruz alumni, along with the top job titles alumni reported two years and five years after graduation. These numbers come from data released by the University of California on alumni career pathways. 

  • Scientific American "SA" logo

    A Surprising Twist Puts Desalination Plants at the Bottom of the Ocean. Here’s Why

    Although proponents of subsea desalination technology say it would have little effect on undersea life, others urge further research to gauge its impact on marine ecosystems. The twilight zone is “extremely important for many ocean processes such as the carbon cycle and nutrient cycling,” says Adina Paytan, a professor affiliated with the Institute of Marine…

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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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    Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms: letter

    Angela Davis, distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, coauthored a letter published in The Guardian condemning the UK government for designating Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, arguing that the move represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine movement and on fundamental freedoms of expression, association, assembly, and protest. 

  • Cosmos "C" logo

    Mirror universe on the wall, is this where dark matter comes from after all?

    A physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz has published 2 studies which put forward a new approach to explain where dark matter comes from. Professor Stefano Profumo has drawn from the well-established quantum chromodynamics. Additional coverage in Yahoo News, The Debrief, Science News Today, and IFL Science.

  • Times Of India

    How the Bay Area is shaping the future of space exploration and why it should work with India

    UC Santa Cruz hosts a world-leading Department of Astrophysics, perhaps the best in the nation, and is headquarters for the University of California Observatories. The campus is a pioneer in adaptive optics and segmented mirror technology.

Last modified: Apr 02, 2025