Media Coverage
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UCSC naming Research Center for the Americas in honor of civil rights activist Dolores Huerta
Lookout Santa Cruz interviewed Professor Sylvanna Falcón, director of the Research Center for the Americas, about the center's renaming in honor of Dolores Huerta.
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Republican Bill Would Raise Tax on University Endowments
A Reuters article discussed new research by Economics Professor George Bulman that shows how universities with growing endowments enroll fewer low-income students and students of color.
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How ‘solar canals’ could help California reach sustainable energy goals
PBS NewsHour covered a pilot project to test solar canals in California that sprung from a 2021 research paper led by UC Santa Cruz.
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UC Santa Cruz research center to honor Dolores Huerta with renaming
KION covered the announcement that UC Santa Cruz's Research Center for the Americas will be named in honor of Dolores Huerta. KSBW also covered this story.
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The ‘good jobs’ challenge India faces
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh wrote an article for Financial Express about inadequate growth in jobs with good wages and working conditions.
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Newton Harrison, a Founder of the Eco-Art Movement, Dies at 89
Newton Harrison, who with his wife, Helen Mayer Harrison, was a founder of the eco-art movement, creating work that married science, cartography, biology, urban planning, agriculture and other disciplines, died on Sept. 4 at his home in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was 89.
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Food insecurity gap remains despite efforts
A research by the UC Santa Cruz Blum Center on Poverty, Social, Enterprise and Participatory Governance that documented food insecurity in San Benito County was featured in an article by Benito Link.
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Ask Lookout: When I scrape my plate into my new food scraps bin, where does it go?
Environmental Studies Professor Elliott Campbell spoke with Lookout Santa Cruz to explain the science of how composting food scraps can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity
Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl spoke with Mongabay about the importance of long-term monitoring to assess the impacts of reforestation campaigns.
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A Key to Controlling Emissions: More Buildings in a City’s Unused Spaces
The New York Times cited research by Associate Professor of Sociology Hillary Angelo in an article about the climate benefits of infill development.
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Driving the Future? Green Justice and the Lithium Valley
Sociology and Environmental Studies Professor and Institute for Social Transformation Faculty Director Chris Benner coauthored an article about how "solidarity economics" principles could be applied to discussions of lithium extraction in the Salton Sea region.
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When Elephant Seals Become Ocean Researchers
Biologists Dan Costa, Roxanne Beltran, and Rachel Holser were featured in an article about their elephant seal research in Sierra magazine.