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Among those aghast at this pseudo-science was Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz: “This is eugenics,” she tweeted. “As President of the American Genetics Association and a human, I reject this. We are better than this.” Also quoted in Scientific American.

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Alta Journal is publishing a five-part serialization of “Trekking to Delta,” a historical essay by acclaimed novelist Karen Tei Yamashita, University of California, Santa Cruz Emerita Professor of Literature.

A. M. Darke, a UC Santa Cruz professor of Digital Arts and New Media, participated in a project to help animate coily hair. This research aims to help created animated characters who are Black with more realistic hair patterns. Previous animation work made curls go all in one direction, but this new research created an…

Netflix's new movie, "Rez Ball", which premiered late in September highlights indigenous people in sports. The movie stars UC Santa Cruz student, Kauchani Bratt, who is also the nephew of the popular actor Benjamin Bratt. In the article Kauchani talks about his heritage and how he ended up in the movie.

Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz Research Professor and History Professor Emerita wrote an opinion piece showing "a chilling precedent'' for Donald Trump's threats of mass expulsions if elected president. "During the Great Depression, when many falsely blamed Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans for the economic crisis, as many as a million were forced…

Sir Isaac Julien, University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities, was featured prominently in a New York Times feature story, "When Harlem Was 'as Gay as It Was Black,' mapping the people, homes and hot spots that transformed the neighborhood during its Renaissance. Julien is an acclaimed filmmaker and artist.

Lookout highlights the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies and professor Michael Chemers, the director of the program. October's annual Festival of Monsters highlights monster storytelling on stage, on screen, and more. This years festival is done in collaboration with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Every year the Center for Monster studies, a multidisciplinary program in the Arts Division, hosts The Festival of Monsters. Through various performances, movies, and collaborations with outside organizations UC Santa Cruz celebrates the history of monsters and what they mean to our culture. Culminating in a monster ball, the next few weeks will be filled…

“Our findings pinpoint to three specific sites on CK1δ’s tail where phosphate groups can attach, and these sites are crucial for controlling the protein’s activity. When these spots get tagged with a phosphate group, CK1δ becomes less active, which means it doesn’t influence our circadian rhythms as effectively," said Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Carrie…

“There’s always something new — it’s like, ‘Oh, man, this group of birds went down a slightly different pathway,’” says behavioral ecologist Bruce Lyon of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies the black-headed duck, the sole obligate parasitic duck species.