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MIT Technology Review
The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment
Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah, who co-chaired the Advisory Committee for Harvard's proposed SCoPEX solar geoengineering experiment, told MIT Technology Review that the need for early public engagement in future research proposals is one of the major take-home lessons from the project.
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KALW
Confirmation Bias In Policing And The American Nightmare
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney joined KALW radio show Your Legal Rights for a discussion of confirmation bias in prosecution.
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San Francisco Public Press
Overdose Deaths Swell Among SF’s Maya Residents, Highlighting Urgent Need for Culturally Competent Drug Health Services
The San Francisco Public Press covered research by Global and Community Health core faculty member and Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Carlos Martinez that showed most Latinx and Indigenous people in San Francisco who consumed drugs had very little knowledge of risks associated with those substances.
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Financial Express
Happiness in India: India’s economic growth over time does not show up in improved happiness score and ranking
In and opinion article for Financial Express, Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh discusses some of the possible reasons why India's happiness ranking is lower than would be implied by its GDP per capita.
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Monterey County Weekly
Local kelp forests continue to die off. Can they be saved? Divers say yes, but scientists and regulators want more answers.
When divers, scientists and others started noticing kelp forests dying off around the Monterey Peninsula in 2015 and earlier, many were alarmed. But Mark Carr, a marine ecology professor at UC Santa Cruz who’s considered one of the foremost experts on kelp forests, wasn’t one of them. “It’s been 10 years now, and frankly people…
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NewScientist
A bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure inside algae
In the 3.5 billion years since life first evolved on Earth, it was thought that once-free-living bacteria had merged with other organisms on just three occasions, making this an exceedingly rare evolutionary event. Now, a fourth example has been found, in a single-celled alga common in the oceans. Tyler Coale at the University of California, Santa…
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NECN
Professor returns to childhood home to watch solar eclipse
Robert Irion, emeritus director of the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program, featured in TV news report by NBC affiliate NECN. "When I saw the pathway of the 2024 eclipse, and realized it was going through my hometown, I knew instantly—at that moment—that I wanted to back in this spot to watch the eclipse because…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
What Does an A Really Mean?
"While within a given course an A may be tied to consistent criteria, across courses and especially across institutions, it’s what people in my field of literary studies would call an 'arbitrary signifier.' That is, it means whatever the individual faculty member says it means. Much too often — though not always — in the…
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The Guardian
California’s Highway 1 road conditions will only get riskier, experts say
“We have been lucky,” said Dr. Gary Griggs, a coastal erosion expert at University of California, Santa Cruz, of the safety record along the most rugged stretches of this road. Fast-moving debris flows and the underground churn that chews through the concrete can cause fatalities if cars are caught in the erosion. “Almost a century…
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The Mirror
Arizona declares Pluto 'official state planet' despite being relegated to dwarf status
"It's a big elliptical hole in the ground, so the extra weight must be hiding somewhere beneath the surface. And an ocean is a natural way to get that," said lead author Francis Nimmo, from the University of California, Santa Cruz.