Media Coverage
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Trump's planned military buildup is based on faulty claims, not good strategy
Politics Professor Dan Wirls warns that if President Trump unleashes another "unchecked military spending spree," he and Congress will compound rather than fix the problems of priorities and waste created by the allocation since 9/11 of trillions of dollars in military spending.
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How colleges can better admit students
In a Sunday op-ed about college admissions, columnist Devin G. Pope cited a paper by George Bulman, an assistant professor of economics. Bulman's paper showed that GPA's later in high school are more predictive of whether a student drops out of college within two years.
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UC Santa Cruz professor fights insects with sound
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the research of music professor David Dunn, who has collborated with two forest scientists from Northern Arizona University on a patented device and protocol to help fight an insect infestation that is destroying trees throughout the West. Stories also appeared in phys.org and eScienceNews.
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Donald Trump and Enda Kenny celebrate a tense St. Patrick’s Day
History professor David Brundage contributed a piece to The Conversation, an independent news and commentary web site produced by academics and journalists, about political tensions surrounding attendance by political leaders from the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland at a St. Patrick’s Day event at the White House.
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Grassland lab raises species loss alarm
Biologist Erika Zavaleta was quoted in a Climate News Network story about her research on grassland biodiversity and its effects on flowering times.
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A search for clues to what causes whale strandings
Biologist Terrie Williams was quoted in news coverage of her research on physiological factors involved in mass strandings of dolphins and whales, including stories in the New York Times, BBC News, Daily Mail (U.K.), Yahoo News, International Business Times, Express, Galileo, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists create surfboard foam from shrimp shells
Engineers Marco Rolandi and John Felts were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about their work on a new material derived from shrimp shells for making surfboards.
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Men still get (almost) all of Hollywood's best lines
Film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich was featured in a Wired Magazine (UK) story about a screenplay analysis which shows that, even in films with strong female leads, the number of lines by men far outweighs those by women.
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Real Art Ways' 'Nothing To Hide?' examines surveillance
Edward Shanken, director of the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) program at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed by the Hartford Courant for a story about an exhibition he co-curated in Hartford that uses art to examine the impact of surveillance techniques on privacy.
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The 10 best U.S. schools for pursuing a film degree
A story in USA Today reported that UC Santa Cruz was named one of the country’s best colleges for film majors, ranking #9 in a Top Ten list by College Factual.
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Exclusive: ICE put detained immigrants in solitary confinement for hunger sriking
Psychology Professor Craig Haney, an expert on the psychological effects of solitary confinement, was quoted in a story that appeared in Long Island Tech News.
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New Research Brief Supports Recess for All Elementary School Students
Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, had her work featured in a blog in Education Week, the largest-read education daily in the country.