Media Coverage
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Brooklyn Rail
Isaac Julien: All That Changes You. Metamorphosis
All That Changes You. Metamorphosis – Distinguished Professor of History of Consciousness and the Arts Isaac Julien’s UK premiere at Victoria Miro—was featured in the Brooklyn Rail’s Artseen column.
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Popular Mechanics
Scientists Are Trying to Train Lab-Grown Brains. The Brains Have Started to Solve Problems.
In a new study published in the journal Cell Reports, a team of scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz successfully trained a brain organoid, developed from mouse-derived stem cells, to solve an engineering benchmark known as the “cart-pole problem.”
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The Guardian
‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
Megan McNamara, who teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and created a guide for faculty across disciplines to deal with AI-related academic misconduct, noted that “cultural” differences in the humanities versus Stem disciplines, or in qualitative social sciences versus quantitative ones, tend to shape faculty members’ responses to students’ use of AI.
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KTVU2
Bay Area gas prices spike following Iran conflict
Nolan Higdon, a political history professor at UC Santa Cruz, says the numbers spell potential trouble for the Trump administration. “The Trump administration is going to have some serious difficulties in the midterms keeping the House or the Senate,” Higdon said. “And if this economy persists, this could be an issue as late as 2028.”
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Santa Cruz Local
What could Santa Cruz’s disappearing sand mean for its iconic beaches and surf breaks?
Patrick Barnard, research director at UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, said each approach has tradeoffs. At Its Beach and Lighthouse Point, nature-based solutions may be difficult because the beach is already so narrow, he said. Meanwhile, hard structures like seawalls tend to accelerate beach erosion. “If you want to have a beach…
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Live Science
‘The warming trend nearly doubled after 2014’: The rate of global warming has accelerated more in the past decade than ever before
Robert Lund, a statistician at the University of California, Santa Cruz, also agrees there is solid evidence that the Earth is warming, but was less sure if we’re experiencing an accelerated warming rate.
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The Guardian
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Claudie Beaulieu, a climate scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz, said the findings imply that the window for limiting warming even to 2C above preindustrial levels would “narrow substantially” if faster warming persists. “An important caveat, however, is that the acceleration may prove temporary,” said Beaulieu, who has published on the topic but…
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Daily Mail
New cause of dementia uncovered as scientists link ‘innocent’ peptide to devastating condition
In a new commentary, a team at the University of California, Santa Cruz, argued that decades of dementia research has focused on the wrong protein. Also covered by Brighter Side and New York Post.
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Nature
It’s a colorful pangenome world
A pangenome can reveal the spectrum of genome variation within a species. The toolbox for working with pangenomes is filling up.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Seymour Studios goes live with new community science podcast
The center’s new podcast, “Science, Solutions, Santa Cruz,” debuted Tuesday, marking the first production to come out of Seymour Studios, a newly built, state-of-the-art recording space located on UC Santa Cruz’s Coastal Science Campus. It was designed to make professional audio and video storytelling accessible to people across the community who lack the technical experience…
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Big cats, bigger protections: Santa Cruz County mountain lions now listed as threatened
Few people have tracked that tension more closely than UC Santa Cruz wildlife ecologist Chris Wilmers, who leads the long-running Santa Cruz Puma Project, a partnership between the university and the state. He called the listing “the appropriate thing to do,” emphasizing that it’s a long-overdue course correction for a species becoming gradually boxed in.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz study finds link between pregnancy and reduced breast cancer risk
A recent UC Santa Cruz study, published in Nature Communications scientific journal, uncovered clues in a decadeslong mystery surrounding the relationship between early pregnancy and breast cancer risk.