Media Coverage
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Can Startup Sandbox Make Santa Cruz a Biotech Hub?
Startup Sandbox, which UC Santa Cruz helped launch in 2017, has become one way of helping UCSC talent stay local, rather than letting them take their breakthrough technologies—and plans to hire employees—over the hill.
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How can parents of first-generation college students find balance
Psychology Professor Margarita Azmitia spoke with WJXT-TV in Florida about how the parents of first-gen college students can help their children navigate the challenges of higher education.
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The Road to Oliver Sacks’: Lawrence Weschler on Meeting a Then-Unknown 48-Year-Old Neurologist
Humanities alumnus Lawrence Weschler contributed an extensive piece to Literary Hub, that included many details about his years as a student at UCSC's Cowell College, noting that three of the 200 in his Cowell class of 1974 went on to become New Yorker staff writers (Weschler, Bill Finnegan, Noelle Oxenhandler) and recalling what he learned…
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A Baby planet might have smashed right into young Jupiter
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in stories in Gizmodo and other media outlets about research indicating that a collision with another planet disrupted Jupiter's core.
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Early reports indicate We may have detected a black hole And neutron star collision
Astronomer Ryan Foley was quoted in stories from Science Alert , Popular Mechanics, and other media outlets about the possible detection of a black hole-neutron star merger.
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central valley freedom summer
Associate Professor of Sociology Veronica Terriquez and graduate students Randy Villegas and Roxanna Villalobos coauthored an article about Central Valley Freedom Summer for Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological Association.
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Fear of Human Voices Can Shape an Ecosystem
KQED Radio covered the latest research by Environmental Studies Professor Chris Wilmers and postdoc Justin Suraci about the effects that predators' fear of humans have on ecosystems.
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A battle for the heavens on Mauna Kea: Native Hawaiians protest plans for a massive telescope
Astronomer Michael Bolte was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the protests in Hawaii over plans to build the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.
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Georgia’s prisons face troubling rise in suicides. What are officials doing about it?
Psychology Professor Craig Haney's research on mental-health conditions inside Georgia's prisons was cited in a Macon Telegraph report about the system's troubling rise in suicides among inmates.
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Plants don’t have feelings and aren’t conscious, a biologist argues
Botanist Lincoln Taiz was featured in a Science News article about his work discrediting the idea that plants have consciousness.
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Cash-strapped students are skipping meals at colleges
Psychology Professor Heather Bullock's survey results about food insecurity among college students was cited in a Boston Globe article about cash-strapped students skipping meals.
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Researchers turn to public to count wildlife on Año Nuevo Island
Biologist Patrick Robinson and Roxanne Beltran were quoted in a front page story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about their citizen science project to count the marine mammals and birds on Año Nuevo Island.