Media Coverage
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Fact check: Trump falsely claims ‘I invaded Los Angeles.’ His water releases didn’t go to LA
President Donald Trump continues to claim that he sent fire-plagued Los Angeles the critical water he says California’s leaders refused to provide. In reality, the water was directed to a dry lake basin elsewhere in the Central Valley – more than 100 miles north of Los Angeles. “The only way that water got to LA is if an Angeleno…
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Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized Communities
Lindsey Dillon, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies the impact of toxic sites on surrounding communities, said the Public Press’ findings are consistent with academic literature on environmental justice. “Marginalized groups get fewer resources,” Dillon said.
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The problem with dating? Your standards might be too high.
Campbell Leaper, a distinguished professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz commented on how dating expectations can clash with shifting gender norms and increased levels of education and employment for women. “A lot of these men who are not going on to college are often having trouble finding jobs and then resenting…
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Republicans want corporate oligarchy. We need economic democracy
Michael A McCarthy, director of the Community Studies Program at UC Santa Cruz, coauthored an opinion article with U.S. representative Rashida Harbi Tlaib about how to build an economic system that works for all Americans by advancing collective ownership models across sectors.
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Where were enslaved Africans taken from? The answer could be hidden in their bones.
Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze's groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa could help descendants of enslaved people reconstruct their family histories. By comparing strontium values found in a person's remains to strontium values across a landscape, scientists can gauge where that person is most likely from. "Individual histories are completely erased" by the slave trade, says…
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California’s effort to streamline wildfire prevention could have long-term consequences
Karen Holl, a distinguished professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle about the potential pitfalls Governor Newsom's executive order and emergency proclamation to suspend the California Environmental Quality Act, the Coastal Act and other longstanding regulations in order to remove red tape from projects to reduce fuels from…
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Why You Can’t Get That Song Out of Your Head
Scientific American spoke with UC Santa Cruz Psychology Professor Nick Davidenko and Ph.D. student Matt Evans about “earworms,” the types of songs that get stuck in your head and play automatically on a loop. Davidenko and Evans have studied earworms together, finding that when people sing out their earworms, they have a remarkable ability to perfectly match…
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This week in Santa Cruz County business
Lookout Santa Cruz's weekly roundup of business news shared findings from a report by UC Santa Cruz's Center for Labor and Community, which showed that 44% of Santa Cruz County workers, students and residents between the age of 18 and 34 said they’d be interested in joining a union.
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An animation breakthrough makes it possible to more accurately illustrates Black hair
Cross-disciplinary professor AM Darke breaks down her recent research on animating Black hair. Historically, character models in animation feature white hair and most of the research into animating hair is done on straighter hair patterns. Darke’s research into coily hair provides a course to better representation that will revolutionize animation.
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UC Santa Cruz to showcase next generation of artists with Open Studios
This Friday, March 14, UC Santa Cruz will open its doors for the public to get a first glimpse into the future of art. The quarterly open studios is a free event for the public where they can come to campus and see art in all forms: painting, sculpture, photography and more.
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‘It’s just chaos’: How California scientists are facing attacks on research by Trump and DOGE
“We’re feeling frustrated,” Needhi Bhalla, a professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, said of the precarious situation. “And wondering why something that has benefited from bipartisan support for 70 years is now currently a target.” Graduate student Fabiola Avalos-Villatoro was also quoted.
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Federal funding freeze threatens UCSC research, Santa Cruz biotech industry
A de facto funding freeze on federal biomedical grants could soon stymie UC Santa Cruz research on cancer and other diseases, and stifle the county’s biotech industry, several UC Santa Cruz faculty members said. Quoted faculty members include Carol Greider, Karen Ottemann, Needhi Bhalla, and Ed Green.