Media Coverage
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How to use AI to help plan your vote
University of California, Santa Cruz Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen was featured in a Washington Post story about using AI chatbot technology to help voters research long and complex ballots.
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MAGA is tripping: Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has cemented the right’s romance with psychedelics.
University of California, Santa Cruz Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen, author of Tripping On Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold Ward, and The Troubled Birth Of Pscyhedelic Science, was featured in an Atlantic Monthly feature story about the American hard right's recent embrace of psychedelics.
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Monsters under the microscope
Professors Michael Chemers and Renée Fox are featured in an article about the Center for Monster Studies, an interdisciplinary space where scholars from across the academic spectrum can come together to explore the role of monsters in culture, literature, politics, and even science and technology. The GoodTimes also featured the center.
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Military sonar does a lot more damage to dolphins than previously disclosed
Scientists from UC Santa Cruz and their collaborators have achieved something monumental — they’ve managed to directly measure the behavioral responses of these dolphins and unraveled some surprising findings. Also covered by Study Finds, Interesting Engineering, and others.
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Our Changing World: Lead bullets – a health risk to humans and kea
Myra Finkelstein is an adjunct professor in the microbiology and environmental toxicology department at the University of California Santa Cruz and a world-leading researcher in the detection and impacts of lead on human and animal health. Myra's pioneering work with California condor has shown that the ingestion of lead from lead-based ammunition is preventing the…
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Gaming’s Uneven Progress Toward Diverse Female Figures
Soraya Murray, a professor of Film and Digital Media here at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed about female representation in video games. Women are often overtly sexualized in video games, and there have been calls for more diversity in the gaming industry.
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Largest dam removal ever, driven by Tribes, kicks off Klamath River recovery
Environmental studies Ph.D. student, artist, and Yurok Tribe restoration engineer Brooke Thompson celebrated dam removal on the Klamath River. “This has been 20-plus years in the making, my entire life, and why I went to university, why I’m doing the degrees I’m doing now,” she said. “I feel amazing. I feel like the weight of…
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Building brighter futures in Santa Cruz County: Join us in building homes, communities, and hope!
Habitat for Humanity Monterey Bay shared findings from a collaborative study with UC Santa Cruz's Center for Economic Justice and Action on the improvements in economic stability, mental and physical well-being, family relationships, and community involvement that come from receiving housing.
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Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats
A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win, and UC Santa Cruz conservation ecologist Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela explains why. “We thought we could rely on protected areas to conserve habitat globally, and we now know that’s not enough, and we need to complement that with a suite of different conservation strategies,”…
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British skull auction sparks Indian demand for return
UC Santa Cruz Anthropologist and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies Dolly Kikon recently helped stop the sale of Indigenous remains and demanded repatriation. Kikon is a member of the Recover Restore and Decolonise (RRaD) initiative, which works to return ancestor remains to their rightful communities.
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Uber and Lyft’s Appeal in California Labor Case Won’t Be Heard by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's decision to kick a case on pay and benefits for gig workers back to state courts means there’s a continuing lack of clarity, according to UC Santa Cruz Sociology Professor Steve McKay, who directs the university’s Center for Labor and Community. “When we have a system where employers pay for a lot…
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Two WA men were arrested in mental health crises. Only one survived
Across the country, jails have become “the default placement” for people in mental crisis, said Craig Haney, a University of California, Santa Cruz, psychology professor. “In worst-case scenarios, that can have fatal consequences,” because mentally ill people “oftentimes react badly to the oppressive nature” of jail environments, Haney said.