Media Coverage
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The Winter Olympics feel like a 90s snowboarding game, and I’m here for it
The Guardian’s games reporter Keith Stuart recommends UC Santa Cruz professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s book “Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us?” to his readers.
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Central Coast faces doctor shortage with plans for new medical school
UC Santa Cruz, in partnership with UC Davis, is addressing this issue with expansion of the PRIME program in which students will receive classroom training at Davis and clinical training on the Central Coast. Grant Hartzog, Executive Director of UC Santa Cruz’s Global and Community Health program, said, “Let’s start fast but small. So we’re…
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Government shutdown, immigration demands and midterm politics collide as funding fight continues
Political historian Nolan Higdon of the University of California Santa Cruz said shutdown fights often become battles over public perception.
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I grew up in an education desert but made it to UCSC
Ava Thornock grew up in Amador County, an education desert without a local college or regular internet access. She made it to UC Santa Cruz, where she is studying biochemistry.
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Popular honeymoon destination faces avian malaria threat, spread by mosquitoes
“Avian malaria has taken a devastating toll on Hawaii’s native forest birds, and this study shows why the disease has been so difficult to contain,” Christa M. Seidl, who conducted the research as part of her PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz, stated in the release.
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California mountain lions are now considered ‘threatened.’ But only in certain regions
“If we want to maintain mountain lion populations in these coastal regions, then we’ve got some work to do,” said Chris Wilmers, a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and lead investigator of the Santa Cruz Puma Project.
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What one company’s shift towards data centers says about Imperial County’s lithium industry
Chris Benner, a professor of sociology and environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, comments on challenges to Imperial County’s emerging lithium industry.
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An Asteroid Might Slam Into the Moon in 2032-and Create a Fiery Flash That’s Visible to Earthlings
The situation is “a rare ‘natural experiment’: a forecastable small-body impact whose signatures could be scientifically rich and operationally relevant,” writes study co-author Yifei Jiao, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Tsinghua University in China, in an email to Live Science’s Deepa Jain.
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Astrobiologists are searching for traces of coal and other fossil fuels to find intelligent life on exoplanets
By tracing that chain, plant biologist Lincoln Taiz at the University of California, Santa Cruz documented how coal availability governed whether biological productivity ever translated into sustained technological power.
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Protection for California mountain lions could become permanent
Chris Wilmers, a researcher at UC Santa Cruz, was one of the outside experts who reviewed the Center for Biological Diversity proposal and worked with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to provide input on how to improve it.
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‘System in flux’: Scientists reveal what happened when wolves and cougars returned to Yellowstone
“Yellowstone is a fascinating system because it’s got the full complement of large carnivores and migratory ungulates that North America used to have,” Chris Wilmers, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz who was not involved in the new study, told Live Science. “A lot of these species are coming back ––…
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How Early Pregnancy Influences Aging and Its Implications for Breast Cancer Risk
A groundbreaking study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, sheds light on how pregnancy may serve as a critical biological intervention, fundamentally altering the aging trajectory of mammary tissue and thus reducing cancer risk later in life.