Media Coverage
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Finestre sull’Arte
Mantua, Isaac Julien at Palazzo Te: world premiere of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis
Finestre sull’Arte, a leading newspaper covering ancient and contemporary art, featured All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, the new installation by Sir Isaac Julien, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | Trump’s climate change denial continues
Distinguished professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Gary Griggs wrote an opinion article about the impacts of Trump Administration policies related to climate change and renewable energy.
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KSBW
CSUMB and UCSC recognized among the best universities in the US
The Wall Street Journal’s list ranked schools from how well the college prepares students for financial success. University of California Santa Cruz ranked 25th on the list of public universities in California and 47th among all U.S. universities.
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Bloomberg News
As Federal Government Retreats, A Private Fund to Save Sea Otters Steps in
“Adding sea otters completely changes the configuration of the food web and that has profound consequences for the structure of the nearshore ecosystem,” says Tim Tinker, an independent sea otter scientist who does research for the University of California at Santa Cruz. The Sea Otter Fund is financing Tinker’s work, recruiting him to model restoration…
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Bloomberg
Reddit’s Former CEO Wants You to Buy a Subscription for Trees
Karen Holl, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, says those looking to purchase a tree subscription should be asking for data and, critically, how many seedlings make it to maturity. Additional coverage in the Los Angeles Times.
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Audobon
Do Nations With the Most Birds Attract the Most Bird Tourists?
Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, who is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, wanted to understand what drives bird-loving tourists to bring their binoculars—and their wallets—to particular countries and how to encourage more of that.
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WNYC-FM
WNYC FM report: Why is ketamine the party drug of now?
WNYC-FM interviewed Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen, the author, most recently, of Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central, 2024), in a news report about the rise of recreational ketamine use.
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ArtNet
Isaac Julien Stages a Sci-Fi Epic in a Renaissance Pleasure Palace
Distinguished Professor of the Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s new artwork, “All That Changes You. Metamorphosis” which opened this month at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy, was featured in an ArtNews story.
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San Francisco Chronicle
California may be at high risk of ‘supershear’ earthquakes. Scientists fear we’re not ready
Past large supershear earthquakes have occurred on shearing faults that are long, straight and shallow, said Thorne Lay, a distinguished professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz. The San Andreas fits this description.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
UCSC aims to cut vacant faculty jobs, attract international students to fix budget gap, new interim provost says
UC Santa Cruz is making strides toward closing a large budget deficit, having so far trimmed about $70 million toward a targeted $170 million in annual savings, the school’s new interim campus provost, Paul Koch, said in an interview with Lookout.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz arts division hires new faculty for 2025-26 academic year
Assistant professor Clementine Bordeaux will be teaching the history of art and visual culture class. Jonaya Kemper, assistant professor, will be teaching performance, play and design, and creative technologies.
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Good Times Santa Cruz
Big Build
UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College officials plan to open a student housing complex that is expected to revolutionize the way local students live and attend school, and how they pay for their living space. Additional coverage in Lookout Santa Cruz, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, and The Pajaronian.