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Courthouse News Service
California lawmaker proposes $23 billion bond measure to fund scientific research
Support for the legislation also came from John MacMillan, a professor at UC Santa Cruz. New approaches and datasets to help treat childhood cancer are made at his institution. Additionally, his university researches climate change and builds tools to combat a warming planet. Like others, his university also has faced impacts from federal cuts. “SB…
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The New York Times
‘People Are Losing Hope’: Suicide Risk Is Rife in ICE Detention Centers
UC Santa Cruz Psychology Professor Craig Haney emphasized that many detainee suicide attempts, and suicidal thoughts, were the result “of their circumstances, a reaction to an otherwise very despairing situation,” he said.
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KPFA.org
UC Berkeley hands names of 160 students and faculty members to government in antisemitism probe: KPFA broadcast
Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History Dana Frank was interviewed in a KPFA FM story about UC Berkeley giving names of students and faculty to government as part of a probe into antisemitism
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Zocalo Public Square
What’s a Labubu Doing at an Anti-ICE Protest?
Chris Connery, emeritus faculty in the literature and History of Consciousness departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said he wasn’t shocked to learn that Labubus so easily resonated with people at the protests. “There’s a kind of improbability, unpredictability to popular cultural fads that are in excess of whatever aesthetic or material components…
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Lincoln Star Journal
An inmate died in a Nebraska prison fire. That was just the first tragedy.
Craig Haney, a psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, explained how restrictive housing in prisons affects inmate behavior. “They’re allowed to deteriorate in these environments,” he said. “Eventually, they act out. The prison system responds to the acting out in the only way it knows, which is the application of force. And…
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Fox KTVU 2
Analysis: Shooting death of Charlie Kirk
UC Santa Cruz lecturer Nolan Higdon comments on Charlie Kirk’s influence in the modern conservative movement, especially in terms of reaching young people.
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Los ecosistemas invisibles en la lucha contra la crisis climática
Scott Winton, ecólogo de la Universidad de California Santa Cruz, llevó a cabo tres años de extenso trabajo de campo para desarrollar el primer mapa basado en datos de turberas recientemente documentadas y previstas en los Llanos Orientales y la Amazonía colombiana.
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Santa Cruz Local
As a new state bill pushes back against license plate cameras, Watsonville looks to add more
Ram Sundara Raman, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UC Santa Cruz, said there is a troubling lack of transparency and oversight in Flock Safety’s data practices.
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Live Science
Do humans and chimps really share nearly 99% of their DNA?
David Haussler, distinguished professor of bimolecular engineering and scientific director at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, weighed in on the truth behind the frequently cited 98.8% similarity between chimp and human DNA.
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Financial Times
Is the US already in a recession?
Pascal Michaillat, professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a research associate at the NBER, estimates a 71 % probability that the US economy was already in recession in May.