Media Coverage
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ABC News
How beaches are affected by climate change
“We know sea-level rise is happening in response to this warming. It’s widely understood through the observational evidence of what is happening,” said Patrick Barnard, research director for the UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience. “And now, we really need to move to thinking about solutions as a global community–and not arguing about…
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Science Magazine
Mysterious killer of sea stars finally identified
It seemed to come without warning. In 2013, divers and marine researchers began to notice sea stars dying in droves in the waters off Washington state. The deaths were gruesome—arms became twisted and fell off, bodies disintegrated. “It was creepy,” says Peter Raimondi, a marine ecologist at the University of California Santa Cruz who followed…
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LiveScience
‘Hibernation genes’ help control metabolism and feeding – and could hold untapped benefit for humans
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Joanna Kelley commented on the potential applications of a new study. “It’s definitely not as simple as introducing the same changes in human DNA,” she said. “Humans are not capable of fasting-induced torpor, which is the reason why mice are used in these studies.”
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San Francisco Chronicle
Parts of Bay Area could experience longer earthquake shaking than previously expected
Emily Brodsky, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz who was not involved with the study, commented on the importance of new findings about where earthquakes resulted in longer periods of shaking than expected. “When you actually have to build a building, you don’t want to just know, in general, it…
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The New York Times
A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds
Anthropology Professor Dolly Kikon was part of a delegation of 20 Indigenous Naga leaders, elders and scholars that recently visited the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford to advocate for repatriating the hundreds of human remains in the collection back to Naga ancestral lands on the Indian subcontinent.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Class action lawsuit shines a harsh spotlight on Manitoba’s use of solitary confinement
Craig Haney, the plaintiffs’ expert and a psychology professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz, toured Manitoba correctional facilities. “In terms of harshness and the risk of harm to which they subject prisoners, (Manitoba facilities) rivaled anything I have observed in some of the worst solitary confinement units in the United States,” Haney wrote in a…
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STAT
Cellular ‘trash bins’ might be a key to reviving multi-cancer early detection tests
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Daniel Kim discusses his research on the promise of detecting cancers early, when they are most curable, by finding extracellularvesicles in the blood with RNA sequencing.
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Popular Science
Meet the 24-armed sea star, a kelp forest’s bodyguard
“We show that the sea stars create a ‘landscape of fear’ among red sea urchins in degraded urchins barrens that reduces grazing on kelp,” study co-author and UC Santa Cruz ecologist Kristy Kroeker said in a statement. “These are very hungry urchins that are dissuaded enough by the scent of a sea star to deter…
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Lookout Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz medical training partnership with UC Davis to launch with 6 students in 2027
UC Santa Cruz is launching a new medical training program in partnership with UC Davis, aiming to address a regional physician shortage and lay the groundwork for a future UCSC medical school.
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USA Today
Tom Lehrer, singer and influential political satirist, dies at 97
Satirical singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, who was also a mathematician and later taught math and musical theater at UC Santa Cruz, died on July 26. Also covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, AP News, NPR, and additional outlets.
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El Tiempo
Las turberas: el desconocido ecosistema que puede almacenar hasta 10 veces más carbono que los bosques amazónicos y que existe en Colombia
Colombian newspaper El Tiempo interviewed Environmental Studies Professor Scott Winton and Ph.D. student Edmundo Mendoza about their research uncovering peatlands across Colombia that provide important carbon sequestration ecosystem services.
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Politico
The sticky study of sunblocking a warming planet
Secrecy about solar geoengineering breeds disinformation, said Sikina Jinnah, an environmental studies professor at UC Santa Cruz. “We don’t want to have a potential tool in our toolbox excluded from consideration because people misunderstand what it is,” she said.