Media Coverage
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Latest ‘menstrual equity’ bill would require California’s public colleges to provide period products
Amanda Safi, a menstrual activist and first year UC Santa Cruz student studying politics and feminist studies, was featured in a Cal Matters article about the push for new policy initiatives.
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A new study shows why thousands of red crabs get stranded on Monterey County shores.
Marine scientist Megan Cimino was featured in a Monterey County Weekly story about her research on the conditions that lead to strandings of pelagic red crabs on Central Coast beaches.
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Transnational Public History
Public History Weekly published an article by humanities dean Jasmine Alinder and history professor Alan Christy about the often forgotten history of Chinese immigrants in Santa Cruz, where four distinct Chinatowns existed until 1955.
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History of Hasidic Williamsburg, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Get Lit with All Of It: 'Mexican Gothic’
History professor Nathaniel Deutsch discussed his new book, Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg, on New York's flagship public radio station, WNYC.
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Woman achieves her goal after 27 years
Good Morning American ran a segment on Katharina Pierini, a UC Santa Cruz staff member who earned her degree, after first enrolling in 1994.
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Lions in our midst: the Santa Cruz Puma Project
Rachel Goodman interviewed Environmental Studies Professor Chris Wilmers about his latest research and the basics of mountain lion conservation for "Talk of the Bay" on KSQD.
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How the Hush of Pandemic Lockdown Changed Wildlife Behavior
Good Times interviewed Environmental Studies professor Chris Wilmers and UCSC marine ecologist Ari Friedlaender about their work studying wildlife responses to pandemic-era lockdowns.
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Rare Albino Redwoods May Hold Clues to Ecosystem Health
Botanist Jarmila Pitterman was quoted in an article about albino redwoods in Atlas Obscura.
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Predicting When the Next Bluff Will Fall
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a Hakai magazine story, also published in the Atlantic, about efforts to predict when coastal bluffs will collapse.
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Sea otters stay warm thanks to leaky mitochondria in their muscles
Biologist Terrie Williams was quoted in Science News and Smithsonian articles about how the metabolism of sea otters helps them stay warm in cold ocean waters.
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MAH to debut new downtown arts festival in September
Lookout Santa Cruz ran a story about a new Santa Cruz arts festival in September that will include UCSC alumni and faculty artists as participants.
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A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Literary Hub published the insightful introduction from the re-release of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto's 1925 memoir, A Daughter of the Samurai, written by emerita literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita and literature Ph.D. candidate Yuki Obayashi.