Media Coverage
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Inside Higher Education
Normalizing Rejection for College Students
Facing rejection or failure can be an isolating experience. To address this, Emily Giovanelli and her colleagues at the Student Health Outreach and Promotion office and the UC Santa Cruz libraries created stations where students can share their latest failures.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
2025 Festival of Monsters features horror panel, roleplaying game
A feature story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted the Festival of Monsters, including an event with Literature Professor Kimberly Lau, who will discuss her book Specters Of The Marvelous: Race and Development of the European Fairy Tale on Thursday.
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Science Magazine
DNA from rum-soaked fishes chronicles century of environmental change
By comparing DNA in historic specimens with that in modern fish populations, researchers discovered that fishes grew scarcer and their genetic diversity declined. That’s worrisome, says Malin Pinsky of the University of California, Santa Cruz, because “genetic diversity provides the raw material for adaptation to novel conditions. Less genetic diversity means less ability to adapt…
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MIT Technology Review
An Earthling’s guide to planet hunting
Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. UC Santa Cruz astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working out how to find them anyway.
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Publishers Weekly
2025 National Book Award Finalists Announced
Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita was one of the judges for this year’s National Book Awards. Yamashita, who won the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. Yamashita was a judge for works of translated literature.
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Third Coast Review
Dialogs: Hope and Solidarity from Angela Davis, Nicole Mitchell, and the Black Earth Ensemble at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Author and activist Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, had an on-stage dialogue in Chicago with world-renowned musician and Guggenheim Fellow Nicole Mitchell, who wrote a special composition for Davis.
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Los Angeles times
McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump’s Campus Deal Sounds Familiar to Her.
In a feature story written by UC Santa Cruz alumna Anita Chabria (BA, History), Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies Bettina Aptheker called the Trump Administration’s “compact for academic excellence” a major threat to free speech. “It’s intended to roll back any of the gains we’ve made,” Aptheker said of Trump’s policies. “No university should…
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Good Times
Making Problems Sexy
Santa Cruz filmmakers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle released their latest film, the third in an Ecosexual/Environmental trilogy. Stephens is a professor of art at UC Santa Cruz. Additional coverage in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Finestre sull’Arte
Mantua, Isaac Julien at Palazzo Te: world premiere of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis
Finestre sull’Arte, a leading newspaper covering ancient and contemporary art, featured All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, the new installation by Sir Isaac Julien, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | Trump’s climate change denial continues
Distinguished professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Gary Griggs wrote an opinion article about the impacts of Trump Administration policies related to climate change and renewable energy.
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KSBW
CSUMB and UCSC recognized among the best universities in the US
The Wall Street Journal’s list ranked schools from how well the college prepares students for financial success. University of California Santa Cruz ranked 25th on the list of public universities in California and 47th among all U.S. universities.
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Bloomberg News
As Federal Government Retreats, A Private Fund to Save Sea Otters Steps in
“Adding sea otters completely changes the configuration of the food web and that has profound consequences for the structure of the nearshore ecosystem,” says Tim Tinker, an independent sea otter scientist who does research for the University of California at Santa Cruz. The Sea Otter Fund is financing Tinker’s work, recruiting him to model restoration…