Media Coverage
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San Francisco Chronicle
Isaac Julien’s SFMOMA installation sets scene for most successful Art Bash ever
Distinguished professor from UC Santa Cruz Isaac Julian premiered an installation at the SFMOMA as part of the museums Art Bash.
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Seattle Times
A celebrity seal was moved 125 miles away in B.C. He showed up again days later.
Roxanne Beltran, an ecology and biology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said many elephant seals travel to locations where they feel comfortable — typically their birthplaces — when they begin molting around April. She said it’s still a mystery how elephant seals know how to get back there. “Something about [Emerson’s] past…
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Los Angeles Times
We can’t stop Highway 1 from crumbling into the sea. Here’s why
The same features that give the Central California coastline its majestic views also make it volatile. As Gary Griggs, a professor of earth sciences at UC Santa Cruz, explained, that is mainly because California is young—in a geological sense—and still settling in. Related coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Forbes
Space Experts Debate How To De-Escalate Russian Threats Of Orbital War
“Any kind of space warfare will put all satellites at risk,” astrophysicist Joel Primack, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an interview. “The SpaceX Starlink satellites orbit at an altitude of about 550 km. That’s high enough that if they were targeted, the debris would remain in orbit for centuries.”
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National Institutes of Health Newsroom
NIBIB-led program has helped innovators pursue commercialization for a decade, three medtech participants share their experiences
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Shiva Abbaszadeh's pathway to commercializing her x-ray detector technology was featured in an article about the anniversary of the The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering's Concept to Clinic: Commercializing Innovation (C3i) program.
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Genome Web
Nanopore-Based Single-Molecule Detection Tech Shows Promise for Viral Load Tracking
Genome Web reports on technology developed by UCSC Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Holger Schmidt for detecting COVID-19 and the Zika virus.
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The Guardian
The photographer who captured Black San Francisco in the 1960s: ‘We wouldn’t have seen it without him’
UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Lewis Watts comments on collection of photos capturing people of color in San Francisco in the 1960s.
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Architectural Digest
The 64 Prettiest College Campuses in America
Architectural Digest names UC Santa Cruz amongst the prettiest college campuses in the United States.
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MIT Technology Review
The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment
Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah, who co-chaired the Advisory Committee for Harvard's proposed SCoPEX solar geoengineering experiment, told MIT Technology Review that the need for early public engagement in future research proposals is one of the major take-home lessons from the project.
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KALW
Confirmation Bias In Policing And The American Nightmare
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney joined KALW radio show Your Legal Rights for a discussion of confirmation bias in prosecution.
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San Francisco Public Press
Overdose Deaths Swell Among SF’s Maya Residents, Highlighting Urgent Need for Culturally Competent Drug Health Services
The San Francisco Public Press covered research by Global and Community Health core faculty member and Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Carlos Martinez that showed most Latinx and Indigenous people in San Francisco who consumed drugs had very little knowledge of risks associated with those substances.
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Financial Express
Happiness in India: India’s economic growth over time does not show up in improved happiness score and ranking
In and opinion article for Financial Express, Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh discusses some of the possible reasons why India's happiness ranking is lower than would be implied by its GDP per capita.