Media Coverage
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African American Theater Arts Troupe celebrates 30 years with live online performance
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about UCSC’s Cultural Arts & Diversity Resource Center’s public gala celebrating the 30th anniversary of its flagship theater ensemble, the African American Theater Arts Troupe.
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Black Grief, White Grievance: Artists Search for Racial Justice
The New York Times featured a story about an exhibition co-curated by arts professor Mark Nash at the New Museum.
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U.S. Push to Find Covid Variants Remains Piecemeal, Disconnected
Genomics Institute Director David Haussler was quoted in a Bloomberg News article about U.S. efforts to track coronavirus variants.
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Racial (in)justice and the UC budget crisis
Dean of Social Sciences Katharyne Mitchell coauthored an opinion piece for Cal Matters advocating for the protection of social sciences funding, due to the importance of these programs in social mobility for underrepresented minority students.
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Do looks matter for success in economics? Actually, they’re pretty important.
Marketplace interviewed Economics Professor Galina Hale about her recent paper documenting that levels of attractiveness can affect career success for economists. Hale says this demonstrates the importance of strategies to correct for implicit bias.
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Prepare for gridlock if future of autonomous vehicles is plentiful cheap journeys
Forbes discussed the findings of a paper on the potential traffic and environmental impacts of autonomous vehicles that was produced by Associate Professor Adam Millard-Ball through UCSC's Environmental Studies Department.
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Besides preventing symptoms, do vaccines combat COVID-19’s spread? A UCSC expert thinks so
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was featured in a Lookout Santa Cruz article about his analysis of COVID-19 vaccine data to determine if vaccination reduces transmission of the virus.
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Mammoth molars yield the oldest DNA ever sequenced
Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in an article in Science about new findings from ancient DNA about the evolution of mammoths.
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Thunderstorms spew out gamma rays — these scientists want to know why
Physicist David Smith was quoted in a Nature news feature about research on terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, bursts of powerful radiation from thunderstorms.
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Why "noncitizen" is a better word than "alien"
The Monterey County Weekly interviewed linguistics professor Jaye Padgett for a story about the push to replace "alien" with "noncitizen" as a word to identify a foreigner or immigrant.
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Santa Cruz County substance use disorder experts highlight growing overdose concerns
Sociology Professor Emeritus Craig Reinarman spoke with Santa Cruz Sentinel about factors contributing to a recent uptick in certain types of overdose deaths within Santa Cruz County.
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Shopify’s Secret Weapon Is Thousands of New Business Owners
Economics Professor Rob Fairlie was interviewed by The Wallstreet Journal about e-commerce trends and the risks of business startup failure during the pandemic.