Media Coverage
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How to Spend a Saturday Watching the Next Generation Learn to Listen, Discuss and Reason
Alumnus David Gleason contributed a piece to Medium about his experience as a judge for the Northern California Regional High School Ethics Bowl, hosted by the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz.
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Metabolism study signals more trouble ahead for polar bears
Biologists Anthony Pagano and Terrie Williams were quoted in widespread news coverage of their research on polar bears, including stories from Reuters, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, BBC News, Guardian, Globe and Mail (Canada), Conversation, and many other national and international media outlets.
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Discussion seeks intersections, contradictions between race, freedom
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz's fourth installment of its "Questions That Matter" series at Kuumbwa Jazz Center about Freedom and Race, quoting campus provost and executive vice chancellor Marlene Tromp, humanities dean Tyler Stovall, history of art and visual culture professor Jennifer González, and history…
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Warming threatens reptiles more than birds and mammals
Biologist Barry Sinervo was quoted in a Scientific American article about the effects of global warming on reptiles.
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The Current State of Agricultural Education
The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems was featured in a Modern Farmer article about the state of agricultural education; the article quoted CASFS research and education coordinator Damian Parr at length.
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Handheld device offers 'most complete' view of human genome, and costs $1000
Biomolecular engineer Miten Jain was quoted in coverage of the sequencing of a human genome using a handheld device, including stories from Forbes, Newsweek, New Scientist, BBC, BioSpace, Yahoo News, and other media outlets.
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Feminist Progress is Not Linear
Sylvanna Falcon of Latin American and Latino Studies coauthored a piece for Counterpunch about the "complicated and compelling" story of women's organizing that is emerging in 2018.
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The lowly seagrass that could save your oysters from climate change
Biologist Kristy Kroeker was featured in a KQED news story, picked up by public radio stations across the country, about the potential for seagrass to counteract the effects of ocean acidification.
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Mating, fighting, birthing elephant seals delight crowds at Año Nuevo State Park
Biologist Caroline Casey was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about elephant seals that also ran in the San Jose Mercury News and East Bay Times.
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A new book says the pace of genomic innovation is problematic
In a review of The Postgenomic Condition, New Scientist calls Jenny Reardon's new book "the best kind of sociological writing" and credits Reardon with taking on the "enormous, messy challenge" of documenting "what happens when our democracy encounters new technologies that refuse to sit still long enough to be understood."
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View to a kill: Galápagos sea lions team up to capture huge tuna
Biologist Dan Costa was quoted in a Scientific American story about cooperative hunting behavior in Galapagos sea lions.
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A volcano in the Philippines is threatening a major eruption
Seismologist Emily Brodsky was quoted in an article about recent volcano eruptions and earthquakes around the Pacific Rim that ran in Vox, CNBC, and other media outlets.