Media Coverage

  • The Wall Street Journal

    Does Recess Need Coaching?

    Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about her new research into the value of recess.

  • Foreign Policy

    Interview: Indian Immigration in the Time of Trump

    Economics Professor Nirvikar Singh, coauthor of the new book The Other One Percent: Indians in America, was featured in a Foreign Policy interview about immigration during the Trump era.

  • USA Today

    Gender reveals: Insanely popular–and also outdated?

    Campbell Leaper, a developmental and social psychologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was quoted in a story about gender reveal parties that ran in USA Today and other media outlets.

  • SCS logo

    Study finds sediment-rich streams are more dynamic

    Geologist Allison Pfeiffer was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about her research on West Coast river channels.

  • New York Times "T" logo

    A start date for the bison invasion of North America

    Biologist Beth Shapiro was featured in coverage of her research on the evolutionary history of bison in North America, including articles in the New York Times, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun, Diario Madrid, Science Daily, PhysOrg, Billings Gazette, and other media outlets.

  • Livermore Independent

    Landslides can't be predicted

    Geologist Noah Finnegan was featured in an article about landslides in the Press Banner.

  • Nautilus

    Dark matter is our friend

    Physicist Joel Primack wrote an article about dark matter research for Nautilus magazine.

  • The Progressive

    The Legacy of a Fighter: Berta Cáceres Didn’t Die, She Multiplied.

    The Progressive magazine quoted history professor Dana Frank in a story about how the late environmental activist Berta Cáceres has become a martyr, inspiring activists all over the world, from Honduras to Bolivia to Standing Rock.

  • KQED

    The Unlikely Marriage of Crochet and Climate Change

    KQED Arts featured a story about Crochet Coral Reef: CO2CA-CO2LA Ocean, an exhibition presented by the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery and the Arts Division’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

  • Hyperallergic

    The Queer Art that Helped Define Post-Blackness

    Hyperallergic featured an interview with associate history of art and visual culture professor Derek Conrad Murray about his book, Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights.

  • San Francisco Chronicle

    The mission to capture storms’ water before it flows away

    Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher is featured in a San Francisco Chronicle story about groundwater recharge efforts in the Pajaro Valley. 

  • C-SPAN

    Lick Observatory Tour

    Astronomer Elinor Gates gave a tour of Lick Observatory on an episode of American History TV on C-SPAN's "Cities Tour San Jose Weekend."

Last modified: Apr 24, 2025