Media Coverage

"It's a very interesting time in American politics. I think we're going through what they call a realignment, which is when both parties are redefining themselves. And they'll probably hold onto whatever definitions come out of the Trump era for the next 30 or 40 years," said Nolan Higdon, a lecturer of history and media…

Gillian Welch, along with her partner David Rawlings, won for their album “Woodland” at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. The album is a blend of Appalachian folk, bluegrass, and Americana.

UC Santa Cruz professor and researcher A.M. Darke co-authored a study on animating Black hair so it more accurately represents coils. Black hair has historically been overlooked in the field of animation. This new research paves the way for better representation and changes the course of animation.

An alumna from UC Santa Cruz, Gillian Welch, was the recipient of the Best Folk Album award with musical partner David Rawlings at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards on February 2. They won the award for their “Woodland!” album. Welch graduated from Porter College in fine arts, class of 1990.

The San Jose Mercury News ran a feature story about UC Santa Cruz History Professor Elaine Sullivan, a renowned Egyptologist. When she was a graduate student, she unearthed artifacts in Syria marked with an an ancient alphabetic script whose meaning still remains a mystery. The artifacts are 500 years older than the earliest alphabetic inscriptions from…

While Dr. Nagy said the hyena sighting left him in “disbelief,” Christine Wilkinson, a carnivore ecologist and hyena specialist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the California Academy of Sciences, wasn’t fazed in the slightest. “To be honest with you, spotted hyenas cannot surprise me,” she said. “They are just incredibly behaviorally flexible…

The study, led by Malin Pinsky, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, highlights how rising and falling temperatures lead to rapid shifts in species composition. The researchers found that as temperature fluctuations accelerate, ecosystems struggle to maintain stability. “It’s like shuffling a deck of cards, and temperature change now…

Aspen Ellis, a seabird biologist at University of California, Santa Cruz, spent a decade doing field work on remote islands off the coast of the United States. She often lived for months amongst thousands of birds, becoming so immersed in their ways that she even learned to tell which predators were nearby from the birds'…

“Most hazard mitigation and disaster recovery funding supports artificial infrastructure, such as seawalls, that degrade nature,” said Michael W. Beck, director of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, who co-led the study. “By valuing the benefits of natural infrastructure, we level the playing field and open major new funding opportunities for reef restoration.”

John MacMillan, UC Santa Cruz vice chancellor of research, said that even if the pause is lifted on Feb. 1, rescheduling the meetings takes time and could delay funding decisions for at least two or three months. “Particularly for our younger scientists, pausing their work and the long-term effects of that can be pretty profound.”