Media Coverage
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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.
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Marketplace
How regional Federal Reserve banks contribute to monetary policymaking
Regional Fed Presidents are chosen by independent boards and then sent to the Board of Governors in DC for approval. “It’s just more layers away from DC and that allows a little bit more protection of independence,” said Galina Hale, an economics professor at UC Santa Cruz.
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KAZU
Solutions for Salinas Valley groundwater contamination exist, but adoption is slow
Hannah Waterhouse is an assistant professor of agroecology at the University of California Santa Cruz. At a test field on campus, she’s researching how cover crops benefit soil moisture and water quality.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
In high-cost Santa Cruz County, a generation of young workers increasingly turns to unions
Young local workers once viewed service jobs as temporary steppingstones. Now, more than 80% told UC Santa Cruz researchers that they are open to unionizing, motivated by both economic pressures and a broader vision of workplace democracy.
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Interesting Engineering
Forget smartwatches, scientists teach WiFi to monitor heartbeats
Your WiFi can now do more than stream movies; it can sense the beat of your heart. Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a system that turns everyday wireless signals into a medical tool. Additional coverage in CNET and Tom’s Hardware.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Joint Cabrillo-UCSC student housing project to finally break ground this month
Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz will break ground Sept. 29 on a long-planned, $111 million joint student housing and child care project at Cabrillo’s Aptos campus.
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KSBW
Central Coast colleges make Forbes’ best public colleges in the nation
California universities dominated Forbes’ recent list of the top 500 colleges in the United States. On the Central Coast, UC Santa Cruz made the list at No. 63.
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The Globe and Mail
Class-action trial in Manitoba to challenge province’s use of segregation jail cells on children
Craig Haney, a psychology professor with the University of California, Santa Cruz, is among three academics to provide expert reports as part of the lawsuit. “The conditions of confinement I encountered were stark and depriving − ranging from very bad to outright egregious,” he said.