Media Coverage
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
State funding awarded to joint UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis medical program
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the official announcement of the PRIME Central Coast Partnership.
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Houston Chronicle
Texas is trying a new kind of death row – one with a sense of community
“The basic harmfulness of solitary confinement is now a largely settled scientific fact,” said University of California, Santa Cruz psychology professor Craig Haney.
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NBC Bay Area
New video game to help people prepare for wildfires
NBC Bay Area features games for community wildfire resilience created by Ph.D. student MJ Johns and Professor of Computational Media Katherine Isbister.
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BBC News
‘It’s just a weird, weird bird’: Why we got the dodo so absurdly wrong
“The dodo laid a single egg in a nest on the ground, which made these eggs particularly vulnerable to predation by introduced species like rats and pigs, which arrived on Mauritius at the same time as people,” says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
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The Hill
The spectacle presidency: How Trump governs through distraction
Nolan Higdon, a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department, argues that the phrase “about two weeks” has become a hallmark of Trump’s communication style.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz researcher develops innovative CRISPRware software
Eric Malekos, a graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz with a background in computer science and mathematics, along with fellow Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Department Ph.D. student Christy Montano A Ph.D., has created an innovative software program called CRISPRware, which makes the process of gene editing faster and easier for researchers,…
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Rolling Stone
Blue States Invest Retirees’ Savings in Firms Boosting Trump’s Extreme Agenda
Mike McCarthy, director of UC Santa Cruz’s Community Studies Program, noted the “tremendous lack of democracy in [pension] funds,” adding: “There’s a lack of any oversight from workers about how these funds are invested.”
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz’s Stripe welcomes artist Rhia Hurt for its July exhibition
“The emotional tension in the work between quiet beauty and planetary emergency echoes the way we experience nature on a human scale,” said Jennifer A.González, professor of art history and visual culture at UC Santa Cruz.
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Bikini Bottom meets redwoods: SpongeBob musical hits stage at UCSC this fall
Lookout Santa Cruz announced a forthcoming production of SpongeBob square pants at UC Santa Cruz, led by Assistant Professor of Performance, Play & Design Rebecca Wear.
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Financial Express
Framing India’s 2047 goals
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh wrote an opinion article arguing for careful decentralization of India’s government in order to reduce distorted incentives related to the way India’s democracy functions.
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Physics Today
Conference organizers, potential participants fault US policies for falling attendance
This year’s International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions is planned for mid-August at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Conference cochair Howard Haber expects about 150 participants, down from around 200 in recent years. He says that some international scientists have canceled their participation because they are “spooked by stories in the…
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Astronomy Magazine
Astronomers discover a pulsar and a helium star orbiting each other
“There’s a physical law that if a binary system loses more than half its mass, the system will become unbound,” says Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. When the more massive star exploded and became a neutron star, Ramirez-Ruiz…