Media Coverage
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UC Santa Cruz farm students raise funds to regrow Puerto Rico’s devastated crops
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the story of four apprentices at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems who are crowdfunding their efforts to help Puerto Rico's agricultural sector recover from Hurricane Maria.
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The first casualty of North Korean nuclear tests? The country's environment
Seismologist Thorne Lay was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about the effects on the environment of North Korea's nuclear tests. The story also ran in the San Diego Union-Tribune and other media outlets.
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Neanderthals weren't as incestuous as we thought, ancient DNA reveals
Genome biologist Richard Green was quoted in a story about Neanderthal genomes in Newsweek and Agence France Presse.
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It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature: 'Against the Anthropocene'
Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, a new book by History of Art and Visual Culture professor T.J. Demos, was reviewed by Pop Matters, an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.
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'Letters to Memory' tells the story of author Karen Tei Yamashita's World War II internment
The Christian Science Monitor featured a review of literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita's new book, Letters to Memory, the followup to her 2010 National Book Award finalist, I Hotel.
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Cary Fukunaga: Cinema Sans Comfort Zone
Birth.Movies.Death magazine featured an extensive story about alumnus and acclaimed fillmmaker Cary Fukunaga, noting that while in his 20s, he developed an interest in film after graduating from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in history.
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UCSC’s Sesnon Gallery hosts an ode to Okinawa
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue, a photo exhibition presented by the Arts Division and the Institute for Humanities Research, opening on campus at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. A separate feature about the exhibition was also published in the Santa Cruz Good Times.
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Why food-obsessed millennials suck at cooking
Memory expert Benjamin Storm, an associate professor of psychology, was quoted in an Angle News story about millennials who rely on smartphones and tablets when they cook, saying that reliance breeds dependence, erodes memory, and diminishes skill development.
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Violent crime in Mexico is at a 20-year high. This is why Mexico’s political parties don’t fix it.
Undergraduate Jennifer Bejar and Ph.D. candidate Michael Wilson Becerril coauthored an opinion column about record violence in Mexico that was published on the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog.
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Chris Wilmers: Professor of Environmental Studies at UCSC and Lead Investigator of the Santa Cruz Puma Project
Puma expert Chris Wilmers, professor of environmental studies, was featured in a podcast produced by BeProvided Conservation Radio.
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Deep-sea elephant seal secrets: What do they eat down there?
Biologist Sarah Kienle was quoted in an article about elephant seals in the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
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Gloria E. Anzaldua: Google Doodle salutes ‘Borderlands’ author who defied divisive bias
The Washington Post ran an article about the Google home page celebrating the 75th birthday of the late author, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, noting that she posthumously received a doctorate in literature from UC Santa Cruz.