Media Coverage
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The Atlantic
Oppenheimer Nightmares? You’re Not Alone.
Veronica Tonay, a licensed psychologist and a retired professor at UC Santa Cruz, spoke to The Atlantic about her research on dream theory as it relates to nightmares about the new film Oppenheimer.
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Washington Post
A North Korean defector captivated U.S. media. Some question her story.
Christine Hong, a literature professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz and a board member at the Korea Policy Institute who has studied defector narratives, discusses North Korean defector Yeonmi Park's accounts of her life with the Washington Post.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Biden promised to fix our asylum process. He hasn’t
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Carlos Martinez wrote an op-ed article for the San Francisco Chronicle about asylum policy issues.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
The student squeeze: When there's nowhere to live, what's a university to do?
The Chronicle of Higher Education spoke with Sociology Professor Miriam Greenberg about affordable housing issues in Santa Cruz and highlighted research by Greenberg and Associate Professor of Sociology Steve McKay.
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CNN
Scientists say they’ve found a site that marks a new chapter in Earth’s history
Anthropology Professor Andrew Mathews spoke to CNN about the importance of the term Anthropocene in understanding humanity's global impact.
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New York Times
She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter.
Tim Tinker, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz who has spent decades studying the marine mammals, speaks about sea otter behavior.
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Washington Post
NASA releases spectacular image to celebrate James Webb Space Telescope
Brant Robertson, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, notes that the Milky Way is beautiful and brings up the question of how the galaxy formed.
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Smithsonian Magazine
Five Astounding Orca Behaviors Explained, From Ramming Boats to Hunting Great White Sharks
Salma Abdel-Raheem, an elephant seal researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz, described orcas interaction with elephant seals in the Smithsonian Magazine.
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Audubon
A Photographer Documents Kelp Forests’ Decline and Efforts to Bring Them Back
Marine ecologist Mark Carr from the University of California, Santa Cruz talks about sea urchin feeding habits with Audubon.
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KQED
This Snail Goes Fishing With a Net Made of Slime
Peter Macht, aquarium curator at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center at UC Santa Cruz, explained how wormsnails capture food for KQED.
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Earth.com
Study reveals a widespread decline of snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere
Earth.com covered Professor of Statistics Robert Lund's research which used a rigorous statistical approach to find that snow cover has declined in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere over the last half century.
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Forbes
Bold Imaginative Climate Ideas Proposed At Academic Conference
Forbes covered a conference cohosted by UCSC's Center for Analytical Finance and Center for Coastal Climate Resilience and discussed insights shared by Economics Professor Galina Hale on how financial regulation and other policies can help to fight climate change.