Media Coverage
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Watching flames turn to forests
Environmental studies Ph.D. candidate Justin Luong spoke with Good Times about a new project with the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, the California Native Plant Society, and citizen scientists to monitor ecosystem recovery following the CZU Lightning Complex fires.
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White Shark Influx in Monterey Bay Linked to Climate Change
Shark researcher Salvador Jorgensen was featured in a NBC News story about white sharks in Monterey Bay.
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Rush to rescue thousands of endangered abalone buried in Big Sur landslides
Biologists Pete Raimondi and Wendy Bragg were featured in a San Francisco Chronicle story about efforts to save black abalone buried by debris flows and landslides on the Big Sur coast.
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Searching for Exoplanets
Astrobiologist Natalie Batalha was interviewed on KQED Newsroom about the search for exoplanets and life on other planets.
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Nathaniel Mackey’s Long Song
The New Yorker magazine published a feature story about acclaimed poet and UCSC professor emeritus of literature, Nathaniel Mackey.
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What A Decade Of Counting Seeds Tells Us About Future West Coast Forests
KAZU visited UCSC's Forest Ecology Research Plot to learn about long-term monitoring efforts with Environmental Studies Professor Greg Gilbert, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Kai Zhu, and ecology and evolutionary biology student Ishana Shukla.
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New York Will End Long-Term Solitary Confinement in Prisons and Jails
Psychology Professor Craig Haney spoke with The New York Times about changes to solitary confinement policies. This story was also covered by Courthouse News Service.
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The ‘Cult' and Contradictions of the American Flag
Film and Digital Media Professor Sharon Daniel was interviewed on NBC-LX news for a story about the shifting meanings of the American flag in a divided country.
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The Deep American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings
A New York Times piece about the recent violent attacks on Asian women cited a passage from the book “Unbound Feet” by the late UCSC historian and emerita professor of American studies, Judy Yung.
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'The fakery is all part of the fun': the hoax of the mirror selfie
History of Art and Visual Culture professor Derek Conrad Murray was quoted in The Guardian for an article about fake selfies and online culture.
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Biden administration looks at why migrants flee Honduras
Emerita history professor Dana Frank was interviewed for stories on Public Radio International’s "The World" program and NPR, BBC News Mundo and the Financial Times about corruption in Honduras and the Biden administration’s response to migrants fleeing that country.
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Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines may block infection as well as disease
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a Science News article about the ability of vaccines to prevent not only COVID-19 disease, but also infection and transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.