Media Coverage
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WHYY
As farmworkers face longer, hotter harvest seasons, their risk of heat-related illness grows
Matt Sparke, co-director of the global and community health program, is creating an app that maps health risks related to climate change. The app can be used by community health workers, farmworkers, and policy makers.
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Aeon
Socrates would be pleased: With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation
A host of philosophy-themed prison education programs have cropped up in recent years, many of them in the context of higher education.
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KALW
The Homework Machine: AI creates gray areas for students and teachers
Jessa Kirk is a former high school teacher and dean, who now works at the Academic Integrity department at UC Santa Cruz. She thinks that many schools are not doing enough to define what cheating with AI really means, and then discourage it.
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NBC
Judge weighs whether Trump violated federal law by deploying National Guard to LA
Dana Frank, Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed in an NBC report on state and federal governments giving their final arguments over the legality of President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Southern California.
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Metro Silicon Valley
The AI Bump
Across Silicon Valley, educational institutions are launching focused credential programs in AI-related roles. UC Santa Cruz Extension offers U.C.–approved certificate tracks in AI application development and prompt engineering, accessible to current professionals and non‑technical learners alike.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Five Astounding Ways Humans Are Driving Animal Evolution, Including Causing Lizards to Grow Longer Legs and Leading Moth Populations to Become Darker
Eric Palkovacs, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, says that fishermen often have a financial incentive to target and catch the largest fish.“That’s a direct selective pressure against large size,” he says, “and because fish get larger when they get older it’s also a selection against old age.”
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The Orange County Register
New FAIR Plan data reveals problem with zoning restrictions in California
UC Santa Cruz researchers argue that rapid population growth and development in WUIs throughout the country, but especially in California, has been driven by an affordable housing crisis.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Where do UC alumni land jobs? See the list of companies for every campus
The San Francisco Chronicle shared data about the top employers of recent UC Santa Cruz alumni, along with the top job titles alumni reported two years and five years after graduation. These numbers come from data released by the University of California on alumni career pathways.
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Scientific American
A Surprising Twist Puts Desalination Plants at the Bottom of the Ocean. Here’s Why
Although proponents of subsea desalination technology say it would have little effect on undersea life, others urge further research to gauge its impact on marine ecosystems. The twilight zone is “extremely important for many ocean processes such as the carbon cycle and nutrient cycling,” says Adina Paytan, a professor affiliated with the Institute of Marine…
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Telemundo
Enfoque California: El impacto del estatus migratorio durante una crisis de salud
Associate Professor of Sociology and Global and Community Health Alicia Riley joined Telemundo’s Enfoque California program to discuss her recent research on how immigration status affected mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Guardian
Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms: letter
Angela Davis, distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, coauthored a letter published in The Guardian condemning the UK government for designating Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, arguing that the move represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine movement and on fundamental freedoms of expression, association, assembly, and protest.
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Cosmos
Mirror universe on the wall, is this where dark matter comes from after all?
A physicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz has published 2 studies which put forward a new approach to explain where dark matter comes from. Professor Stefano Profumo has drawn from the well-established quantum chromodynamics. Additional coverage in Yahoo News, The Debrief, Science News Today, and IFL Science.