Media Coverage
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Golden State Warriors hold STEAM Fest for students
KTVU's coverage of the Golden State Warriors' annual STEAM fest highlighted UCSC's demonstration table at the event.
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A Tale of Two Sea Level Rise Solutions
Environmental Studies Ph.D. student Amanda Stoltz spoke with Sierra about climate gentrification. "Not only are lower-income and BIPOC communities already bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, but also rising real estate prices may continue to push those communities out of climate-safe neighborhoods and into areas more at risk," she said.
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California Faculty Association members vote to approve tentative agreement
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Sarah Mason, who works with the Center for Labor and Community spoke with KAZU to explain the process of ratifying union labor agreements.
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Being 80
A PBS documentary that seeks to counteract stereotypes on aging features the ongoing work of UC Santa Cruz Sociology Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs, who teaches peacemaking skills through a program with Soledad State Prison and UCSC students.
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UC applications rise for fall 2024, with gains in diversity and transfer applicants
UC Santa Cruz emailed about 500,000 potential transfer students last fall to congratulate them on their educational journeys and offer help in course planning, financial aid issues and other support, said Michelle Whittingham, associate vice chancellor of enrollment management. The number of transfer applications overall grew to 12,218 — a 9.6% increase — for fall…
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Honduran ex-president convicted of helping send tons of cocaine to U.S.
“How is it possible the U.S. government did not know this stuff was going on?” said Dana Frank, a historian and Honduras expert at the University of California at Santa Cruz. “They chose to look the other way.”
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U.S.-Backed Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández on Trial in NY for Drug Trafficking
Dana Frank, professor emerita of history at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed by Democracy Now about the trial against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is accused of turning the Central American country into a narco-state.
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Former president of Honduras is on trial, facing charges that he ran a 'narco state'
University of California, Santa Cruz Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History Dana Frank was quoted in an NPR segment this week about former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, whose trial begins in New York, as he stands accused of overseeing a "narco state."
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Landmark report details how human activities can disrupt animal migrations
When whales migrate from polar waters toward the equator, they help move nutrients to parts of the ocean that typically don’t have a lot to spare, said Daniel Costa, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As they travel, whales release urea as waste, a source of nitrogen that’s useful…
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California’s record rainfall leads to mudslides, sewage spills
Co-author Pete Raimondi, a marine ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, stressed the importance of locating “areas where kelp can persist on its own.” Doing so, he added, could help identify where kelp restoration efforts have the best chance at success.
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A Two-Ton Lifeguard That Saved a Young Pup
Researchers have observed elephant seals for more than 40 years and had never seen a male rescue a pup like this before. “It’s completely out of the ordinary,” said Daniel Costa, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since this is the first time anyone has seen anything like this from elephant seals,…
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Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon May Hide a Massive, Shockingly Young Ocean
The finding that Mimas has an ocean is intriguing—but that ocean’s inferred youth is what has sent ripples through the scientific community. “The implications give one pause because they’re very surprising,” says Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved with the new study.