Media Coverage
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Coastside News
Coastsiders can expect more power outages
Yu Zhang, an assistant professor in the UC Santa Cruz Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, pointed out that fire can still strike coastal communities, such as the Santa Cruz wildfires in 2020.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Loving fire with fire: Humor, horniness and happiness inhabit post-CZU film
Well-known performance artists and filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens interpret their close encounter with the 2020 CZU fire with a new taboo-busting film that puts the fires into the context of “ecosexuality.”
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The New York Times
What Jesse Jackson and Zohran Mamdani Have in Common
Michael McCarthy, leader of the Community Studies Program at UC Santa Cruz says organizers have always known that “in order to build a movement, you need to address specific yet important concerns that affect only some parts of your coalition while also speaking to the issues shared by everyone you want to draw into your…
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These sacred tattoos were banned in Okinawa. A new generation is bringing them back.
Adriane Tengan-Stoia and Lex McClellan‑Ufugusuku, doctoral students in history at UC Santa Cruz, explained that women were the spiritual leaders in Ryukyuan society and were believed to possess a divine connection to the spiritual realm. But as Okinawa was colonized, women in positions of power were targeted, and hajichi tattos worn by these women were…
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The New York Times
Education Department Backs Away From Program for Hispanic-Serving Colleges
“We’re trying to be an institution of access,” said Cynthia Larive, chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz. “This is a broader issue. It’s really about how the U.S. is going to be a leader economically and in science and research. There are smart people across the country, and we don’t alway serve all…
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Smithsonian Magazine
These Lizards Have So Much Lead in Their Blood, They Should Be Dead. Instead, They’re Thriving
“The fact that they show no measurable signs of toxicity is surprising, because in other vertebrates I’m familiar with, blood lead above 500 micrograms per deciliter is associated with obvious illness or even death,” says Donald Smith, a microbiologist at the University of California Santa Cruz who was not involved with the research, to the…
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The Marshall Project
A Woman With HIV Spent Six Years in Solitary. She Sued and Missouri Will Change Its Policy.
“It is a psychologically traumatizing experience,” said Craig Haney, a professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz, of solitary confinement. “It persists after somebody gets out of solitary confinement. In some instances, it’s fatal.”
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The Mercury News
Pirates, brothels and … the Bard? One of Shakespeare’s least-known plays gets rediscovered in Santa Cruz
The majority of the play “Pericles” is so far from Shakespeare’s style that many scholars believe the first two acts were written by someone else entirely — possibly George Wilkins. “What Shakespeare scholars tend to do is when they encounter something that they don’t like in Shakespeare, they say someone else wrote it,” said Sean…
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KION
UCSC study links immigration status to COVID deaths, survival rate
“This was the first study to really link immigration status and make it possible to link legal immigration status to excess death rates,” said Alicia Riley, and associate professor of sociology and core faculty member in the Global and Community Health Program.
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Eastern Mirror
Nagaland University hosts workshop on ‘Ecologies of care’
UC Santa Cruz cohosted the workshop, and Professor Dolly Kikon, director of Center for South Asian Studies, introduced the initiative as a collaborative dialogue to explore the Himalayan region’s various intersections, expressions and care practices.
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Newsday
Hamptons real estate scam allegations raised red flags for years
The lawsuits filed by many of the homebuyers are also notable because they involve plaintiffs who had the cash to purchase homes but lacked access to traditional lenders, said Juan Manuel Pedroza, a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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SFGate
A world-renowned California scientist’s career is defined by chance
The minutes pass into hours as the swell rises and falls like craggy rock formations, lulling me into a meditative state. But the man at the helm, Ari Friedlaender, is on high alert. With a ball cap and sunglasses shielding his bearded face, and a pair of flip-flops on his feet, the world-renowned ecologist and…