Media Coverage
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Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change
Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl says there will always be trade-offs among benefits when conducting specific reforestation projects. “We can’t do it all at once,” she said. “If your goal is maximizing biodiversity, then reintroducing all the fauna and natural processes makes a lot of sense. If you’re trying to maximize timber production, it’s probably…
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Donna Haraway and Italo Rota Receive Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
Donna Haraway, a distinguished professor emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department, was recently awarded a Golden Lion for Life Time Achievement. Given at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, this award honors Harawy’s philosophical work centering on science fiction and technology.
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The first U.S. retrospective of pioneering artist + filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien debuts at the de Young Museum
I Dream a World, a current exhibition at the de Young Museum, was named after a Langston Hughes poem. It is the farthest reaching exhibition for Sir Isaac Julien, a distinguished professor of art. Julien gave an opening talk to introduce the exhibition on the day of it’s opening, April 12. This retrospective uses collected…
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Starved in jail
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney says that when incarcerated people with mental health issues stop eating or drinking, jails should respond swiftly. “It’s a crisis that requires moving someone immediately out of solitary confinement, or out of a traditional jail setting, and into a psychiatric facility, for close clinical care and observation.”
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Polls open in historic Oakland special election, which will name city’s 4th mayor since December
“I think there are a lot of people in the Bay Area who would like to see Oakland get back to that level it previously had decades ago. And I imagine some of these folks vying for office are thinking they are the person to be able to do that,” said Nolan Higdon, a lecturer…
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A Better Next Big Thing
Environmental Studies and Sociology Professor Chris Benner is featured in a documentary film about the world’s largest and cleanest lithium supply in California’s Salton Sea region. Benner discusses the clean energy transition and how to support local communities in the process.
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‘Isaac Julien: I Dream a World’ Opens at de Young Museum April 12
Sir Isaac Julien, a distinguished professor in the History of Consciousness and Art Departments, will have his work on display at the De Young Museum. I Dream a World is Julien’s first solo exhibition at the museum and uses video instillations and visual narrative to explore African American narratives.
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Game of clones: Colossal’s new wolves are cute, but are they dire?
Beth Shapiro, an expert on ancient DNA who is now on a three-year sabbatical from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as the company’s CSO, acknowledged in an interview that other scientists would bristle at the claim. “What we’re going to have here is a philosophical argument about whether we should call it a dire…
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Odd-Looking Blue Creatures Are Washing Up in Large Groups on California’s Beaches Once Again
Velellas typically wash ashore in Northern California in spring or early summer, because “in the spring is when we have upwelling,” explains Raphael Kudela, a marine scientist at University of California, Santa Cruz, to KQED’s Danielle Venton and Sarah Mohamad. “Upwelling brings lots of nutrients, and lots of nutrients bring phytoplankton and zooplankton.”
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Impact of Trump’s tariffs on India will be lower than for other countries, including China
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh wrote about the potential impacts of new U.S. tariffs on India. Singh suspects that the tariffs are mainly an aggressive starting point for a negotiation process that will proceed bilaterally. But he says the Trump approach undermines institutions and trust.
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Art Scholars Pledge to Boycott Columbia University
Art historians and professors are among the hundreds who signed an open letter denouncing the school’s capitulation to Trump’s demands.
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Donna Haraway and Italo Rota awarded Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Donna Haraway, a distinguished professor emeritus from the History of Consciousness Department, recently won a “Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement” from La Biennale di Venezia. Her philosophical work covers both science and science fiction, as well as speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, science and technology studies and multi-species worlding.