Media Coverage
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William Abraham: All Souls’ first African scholar returns to Oxford
The London Financial Times featured a story about emeritus philosophy professor William Abraham returning to Oxford, where he was honored with the unveiling of his portrait and a conversation about diversity with Edward Mortimer, a senior editor of the London Times and former speech-writer for Kofi Annan.
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Of Many Minds: Why identity politics is so vexing for so much of the left
The Baffler magazine featured an essay about a new book by history of consciousness graduate student Asad Haider about identity politics titled Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.
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The $25 billion wizarding world of ‘Harry Potter’ by the numbers
Assistant professor of literature Renee Fox was quoted on the Dow Jones site, Moneyish, for a story about the "Harry Potter" franchise's staying power as it approaches its 20th anniversary this September.
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Santa Cruz artists ‘resist’ hopelessness at First Friday art show
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about an art exhibition by the collective, "Artists Respond and Resist Together," which featured a conversation between UC Santa Cruz's art historian Jennifer González and sculpturist Laurie Palmer about how to use art as a means to achieve legislative and social change.
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Two troubled women’s lives intersect across the decades in Jaeger’s ‘Boardwalk Summer’
The Mercury News ran a story about UC Santa Cruz literature alumna and historical fiction writer Meredith Jaeger and her new novel, Boardwalk Summer, set in 2007 Santa Cruz and 1940s Hollywood.
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This Morning with Alex Jensen
Ravi Rajan, professor of environmental studies, was interviewed live on the South Korean radio network TBS about his new book, The Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS.
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Girls Who Code encourages STEM, one coding class at a time
Computer science major Macie Cooper was featured in an article about the Girls Who Code program in CNET News, Long Room, F3News, and other media outlets.
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Here's why scientists are coloring birds’ heads with markers
Biologist Bruce Lyon's research on golden-crowned sparrows in the Arboretum was featured in a National Geographic video.
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Bodies keep shrinking on this island, and scientists aren't sure why
Biomolecular engineer Ed Green was featured in widespread coverage of his research on the genomes of a pygmy population in Indonesia, including stories in the New York Times, BBC News, LiveScience, Daily Mail, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Science, Nature, Science News, Cosmos, Haaretz, India Tribune, Eurasia Review, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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Counting critters in the kelp forest
Biologists Umi Hoshijima and Kristy Kroeker were featured on KCAW, Alaska community radio, in a story about their research on kelp forests in Sitka Sound.
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‘Global Greening’ Sounds Good. In the Long Run, It’s Terrible.
The New York Times turned to Elliott Campbell of Environmental Studies to set the record straight in a story about "global greening;" the article followed earlier coverage of Campbell's research, which was embraced by climate-change deniers.
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A breakthrough way to see distant planets
Astronomer Henriette Schwarz was featured in an Atlantic magazine article about a new way to detect extrasolar planets.