Media Coverage
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Surfing generates nearly $200 million a year for Santa Cruz – and coastal changes could put it at risk
Gary Griggs, a longtime coastal geology expert at University of California, Santa Cruz who was not involved in the report, cautioned against exaggerating the near-term risk. At current rates, he said, Santa Cruz is unlikely to experience one to three feet of sea level rise — a range examined in the report — within the…
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New York Times
This Diminutive Reptile Plays Rock-Paper-Scissors
Dr. Sinervo, who later joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and who died in 2021, grew fascinated by the strange mating habits of the lizards. At the start of every breeding season, the males developed one of three colors on their throats: blue, orange or yellow. And depending on their color,…
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National Geographic
Chewing gum has a mysterious effect on the brain
In research on fidgeting, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Computational Media Katherine Isbister has found that people engage in fidgeting when they’re trying to pay attention to a task that’s taking a long time, or in a long meeting (even if at the annoyance of those around them).
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage
The damage threatens a telescope that helped shape modern astronomy and still draws thousands of visitors each year to the mountaintop east of San Jose. Additional coverage in KTVU News, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, KSBW, SF Gate, and Lookout Santa Cruz.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage
The damage threatens one of the Bay Area’s most significant scientific landmarks — a telescope that helped shape modern astronomy and still draws thousands of visitors each year to the mountaintop east of San Jose. Additional coverage in KTVU News, The Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, KSBW, SF Gate, and Lookout Santa Cruz.
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The Guardian
School closures have rocked this LA-area district – are they destroying it, or saving it?
“Just because a district needs a loan from the state does not mean it should be – or always is – put into receivership,” said Rene Espinoza Kissell, an assistant professor of education at UC Santa Cruz who studies school funding. Where wealthier districts may get supervision, lower-income districts with majority students of color are…
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The Mercury News
‘Super-Jupiter’ exoplanet is not so Jupiter-like, UCSC study finds
Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s largest planet — and in fact, has much in common with Mars. Exoplanet VHS 1256b, located 40 light years away from Earth, was identified in 2015.
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Los Angeles Times
How the Grinch went from a Yuletide bit player to a Christmas A-lister
“The economy is in big trouble, our political situation is chaotic, there’s a lot of hate — it’s no wonder that we would seek to express that through the embodiment of a monster like the Grinch,” said Michael M. Chemers, director of the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
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Financial Express
How to fix Delhi’s air pollution disaster
Openness to diverse sources of expertise and rigorous testing of ideas before scaling up might be the key to fix Delhi’s hazardous air, writes Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh.
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Mercury News
How a new system of drones and low-cost sensors can protect communities from air pollution
A project led by Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Javier Gonzalez-Rocha is using drone flights and new monitoring technologies to better understand when and where farmworkers are most severely exposed to air pollution.
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Los Angeles Times
Prison methods are as bad as you’ve heard, and spilling onto the streets
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney wrote an opinion article about the damaging dynamics and lack of accountability inside jails and how these practices are increasingly taking place outside of jails too, with anonymous government actors operating unrestrained by due process safeguards, subjugating and terrorizing people with impunity — as has long been common inside…
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The Cool Down
Researchers awarded over $500,000 to use diamonds in new project: ‘We have sought to get off the ground for several years’
As reported by UC Santa Cruz, researchers with the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics will receive $550,000 in funding to develop advanced diamond-based sensors to monitor intense radiation in future fusion energy reactors. Picked up by Yahoo.