Media Coverage
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Yurok, Klamath & Karuk Native tribes celebrate historic dam removals
Environmental Studies Ph.D. student Brook Thompson, a member of the Yurok and Karuk tribes, joined KALW's Your Call radio show to discuss the removal of the Klamath River dam.
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Why your dog helps you relax more than your friends do
Assistant Teaching Professor of Psychology Hannah Raila spoke with National Geographic about her recent research that documented how people who interacted with their dogs after a stressful experience had a greater boost in mood and a greater reduction in anxiety than those who tried to destress by coloring or just through the passage of time.
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People who are blind can navigate indoors with a phone in their pocket
The New Scientist featured Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Roberto Manduchi's research on creating apps that allow visually impaired people to navigate with their phones while the device is in their pocket.
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Racing extinction: Can science act fast enough to save large, endangered mammals?
How can we speed up the process of saving large mammals? After four decades of conducting ecophysiological research on large marine and terrestrial carnivores, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Terrie Williams' team has found that a laboratory-to-zoo-to-field approach is one effective way to quickly gain critical knowledge about what different species…
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‘Tripping on Utopia’ Review: LSD and the Cold War
The Wall Street Journal praised Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen's new book, Tripping On Utopia, in a review that was published this week, calling attention to the way Breen "narrates the rise and fall of LSD through the lives of Margaret Mead, who became the leading American anthropologist of her era, and her third husband,…
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Iwona Buczkowska and Angela Davis named winners of the 2024 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes
The Architectural Review ran a detailed feature story about University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Emerita Professor Angela Davis, who taught in both the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies departments. Davis won this year's Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture.
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Easter Island Origins
Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Alexander Ioannidis discusses the genomic evidence used to trace the origins of the people of Easter Island. Ioannidis came to UC Santa Cruz after doing this research at Stanford University.
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For the first time, California law will protect students’ right to recess
KPBS spoke with Sociology Professor Rebecca London about a new state law and her research on the importance of recess.
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When America First Dropped Acid
In her detailed book review in this week's issue of The New Yorker, Margaret Talbot praised University of California, Santa Cruz Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen for "an eye for the telling detail, and a gift for introducing even walk-on characters with brio" in his new book, Tripping On Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold…
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Lake Taupō trout subject of US-based research
UC Santa Cruz PhD student Georgia Third is studying the diet and habits of Lake Taupō's rainbow trout. "Trout in Taupo were introduced from California and I’m studying around the area that trout came from in Santa Cruz," she said. "I’m studying the trout in the ancestral population and in the introduced population. The University…
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Could LSD Have Achieved World Peace? Ask Margaret Mead.
In “Tripping on Utopia,” Benjamin Breen chronicles the legendary anthropologist’s doomed effort to save the world through hallucinogens.
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The Birth Of Psychedelic Science
You may have heard about the pioneering research of anthropologist Margaret Mead, but do you know about her work with psychedelics? Mead and her husband, Gregory Bateson, thought psychedelics might reshape humanity by expanding consciousness