Media Coverage
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Hyperallergic
Art Scholars Pledge to Boycott Columbia University
Art historians and professors are among the hundreds who signed an open letter denouncing the school’s capitulation to Trump’s demands.
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Art Review
Donna Haraway and Italo Rota awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Donna Haraway, a distinguished professor emeritus from the History of Consciousness Department, recently won a “Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement” from La Biennale di Venezia. Her philosophical work covers both science and science fiction, as well as speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, science and technology studies and multi-species worlding.
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Science
Geoengineering could be crucial in the fight against climate change. But first scientists need to learn how to talk to the public about it.
Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah shared her insights from working to help the geoengineering sector incorporate governance and public-engagement best-practices documented by social science research. “It’s really, really hard to be taken seriously,” she said. “There’s a handful of scientists who I think bend over backwards to support social science and to advocate for the inclusion…
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NBC
Trump administration axes more than $125M in LGBTQ health funding, upending research field
Amid the prospect of both gay and trans people’s erasure from the nation’s research priorities, 30 editors of leading journals that focus on sex and gender research published an editorial last month in The Journal of Sex Research on this work’s importance, NBC reported. UC Santa Cruz Psychology Professor Phillip Hammack coauthored the editorial in his role…
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KAZU
UC Santa Cruz sociologist sees ‘a real opportunity’ for labor power right now
Sociology Professor Steve McKay, director of the Center for Labor and Community, says union power helps to push back against increasingly precarious conditions in our country’s economy and society. “Unions are one of the only independent structures that actually fight that kind of precariousness and help empower workers,” he said. Additional coverage was included in…
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Game Developer
UC Santa Cruz professor roleplays gig economy, publisher negotiation, and layoffs with game design students
Retora Games founder and UC Santa Cruz Lecturer of Computational Media Tyler Coleman held classroom exercises with game design students in order to help prepare them for the harsh current realities of the game industry.
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Tech Brew
The Human Genome Project’s legacy is still yielding new advances
Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler and UCSC Genomics Institute Executive Director Lauren Linton were quoted in a story by Tech Brew on the continuing impact of the Human Genome Project.
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Financial Express
A major reset of higher education
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh wrote an op-ed discussing how the Trump administration’s war on universities may be a harbinger of long-run structural changes in the world order when it comes to higher education leadership and opportunity.
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AP
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
“It’s like the Wild West. Everybody is on the bandwagon, everybody wants to do something,” said Adina Paytan, who teaches earth and ocean science at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Trump is turning off the lights on biomedical research: Why it matters for Santa Cruz
Guest commentary by UC Santa Cruz Science Division Professors Needhi Bhalla, Susan Carpenter, and Carol Greider: "A total of $59 million and 102 research projects, in addition to $145 million in local economic impact is what’s at stake in Santa Cruz if these proposed NIH funding cuts go through. From life-saving drugs to cutting-edge cancer…
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Guardian
Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists
Professor Alexie Leauthaud-Harnett, a co-spokesperson for Desi and a cosmologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said: “What we are seeing is deeply intriguing. It is exciting to think that we may be on the cusp of a major discovery about dark energy and the fundamental nature of our universe.” Also covered by the…
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Lookout Santa Cruz
Ask Lookout: What happened to the walking path on Capitola's Depot Hill?
Gary Griggs, UC Santa Cruz professor of earth and planetary sciences, notes that Depot Hill is “probably the most rapidly eroding section of cliff in Santa Cruz County.” He added that the buff has eroded about a foot each year over the past century.