Media Coverage
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San Francisco Chronicle
Research by UC Santa Cruz professor, others yields gruesome discovery
New research by an anthropology professor at UC Santa Cruz and other experts revealed a startling twist on the human sacrifice traditions of an ancient people of Peru.“Most of what we know about human sacrifices with the Moche relates to very public and gruesome forms of human sacrifice,” said Lars Fehren-Schmitz, an archaeogeneticist at UC…
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High Country News
Utah’s coal mines can’t find enough workers
Miners describe eroding benefits as unionized coal mines have closed down. Some former union mines may eventually reopen, but it will be with new names, new owners and no union contracts. Mijin Cha, a just transition researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said that this is a common trend across the nation.
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Grist
Three-quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on Earth’
Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for billions. We can look to current geopolitical and ecological events that are playing out currently to understand what we can expect in the future,” said Hannah Waterhouse, a soil and water scientist at the University…
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Financial Express
A haze of institutional weakness
In an opinion article, Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh argues that the standard approach of localized and reactive policies will not India’s air pollution problems.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Scientists are turning fog into water. Here’s what it could mean for California
Peter Weiss, an environmental toxicologist at UC Santa Cruz, started collecting fog during the megadrought that plagued California from 2019 through 2021. “It’s bringing the concept of collecting atmospheric water in this passive way to our everyday lives,” Weiss said. “You can get a tangible quantity of water you can put to use that you…
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The Scientist
A Tiny but Mighty Helper Stops Mosquito Viruses in Their Tracks
Even though Wolbachia’s virus-blocking effects were described more than 10 years ago, the mechanisms behind it are still poorly understood, noted William Sullivan, a cell biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has delved into the biology of Wolbachia for more than two decades. “The million-dollar question is the mechanism of virus protection,…
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Cal Matters
California’s attorney general leads a ‘know your rights’ workshop for immigrants
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and other immigrant advocates have warned people to be careful about the legal help they seek and to only use qualified and licensed immigration attorneys. Scams offering fake immigration services or extorting payments by threatening deportation target vulnerable communities, especially in Los Angeles. Cal Matters shared research by UC Santa Cruz…
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WDET
Exploring gender roles in 2024, from ‘girlboss’ to ‘trad wife’
UC Santa Cruz gender and sexual identity diversity expert Dr. Phillip Hammack joined Detroit Public Radio to discuss how gender roles have shifted in the past decade. Hammack said that new labels popularized on social media show that "ideas around how to be a woman, how to inhabit your gender, have now opened up, and…
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San Francisco Public Press
Shuttered Radiation Lab Poses Ongoing Health Risks for Growing Neighborhood
Coverage of the history of cleanup and development plans at the Navy's San Francisco lab cited research by Associate Professor of Sociology Lindsey Dillon and quoted Daniel Hirsch, the retired director of UCSC's former Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy. Hirsch says there is “high likelihood that contamination migrated from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard…
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San Francisco Public Press
Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Obscure SF Radiation Lab
“You almost have a sense of a military entity, knowing it was involved in rights violations and other questionable activities, burning the file before the incoming troops arrived,” said Daniel Hirsch, the retired director of the former Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has authored several reports…
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia prison system engages in deception as crisis builds
A leading expert on prison conditions and solitary confinement, Craig Haney, was brought in to study the unit, and he described the SMU as "one of the harshest and most draconian" solitary confinement facilities he had ever seen. … "The atmosphere inside E Wing was bedlam-like, as chaotic and out of-control as any such unit…
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KTVU
Luigi Mangione: Societal support for alleged criminals isn't unprecedented
"Sometimes communications online, particularly social media, can kind of give us an idea of where the public is at. And I don't think anybody can dismiss the fact that there are divergent opinions on this murder," said Nolan Higdon, a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This story was picked up by Yahoo News.