Media Coverage
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Restoring Microgrids After Power Loss Requires Smarts
IEEE Spectrum highlighted Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yu Zhang's research on using AI to better manage microgrids during power outages.
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Cloud, Remote Tools at UCSC Enhance Study of Organoids
Government Technology highlighted Mohammed Mostajo-Radji's research on cloud technologies which give more students access to cortical organoids used in biotechnology research and education.
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Top 10 Discoveries of 2023
Research by Anthropology Professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz on the inhabitants of Machu Picchu was selected as one of the top 10 discoveries of the year by Archaeology Magazine.
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Greta Thunberg’s Climate Cohort Is Growing Up
Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Jessica Taft spoke with Bloomberg about public perceptions of girl activists and how those perceptions can present a barrier to activists achieving their goals.
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Why Climate Advocates Demand a ‘Just Transition’ Away From Fossil Fuels
Bloomberg interviewed Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies J. Mijin Cha to help explain the concept of a "just transition" away from fossil fuels.
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The Need for Increasing Private Sector Funding of Climate Solutions
Economics Professor Galina Hale wrote an article for Econofact arguing that current spending is insufficient to mitigate climate change and adapt to its consequences and that raising the level of funding required would need to include the private financial sector.
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Seeing isn't believing: From Gaza to US politics, deepfake videos are peddling fake news
Nolan Higdon, a lecturer for Merrill College and the Education Department, wrote an opinion article for USA Today about how AI deepfakes on social media spread fake news and the need for increased critical media literacy among the public.
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From AI to the Y chromosome (and everything in between)
Nature Biotechnology editors chose two research articles led by UCSC researchers among their favorite research articles from 2023. Their selections of 'Human reference draft represents human variation' and 'Sequence of the human Y chromosome revealed' were both led by researchers at the UCSC Genomics Institute including Karen Miga and Benedict Paten.
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Flat Earth claim based on gas pressure fails to account for gravity's impact | Fact check
Regions of high pressure tend to diffuse to regions of lower pressure, said Elise Knittle, an Earth and planetary sciences professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The walls of a container can help prevent that from happening − maintaining a constant pressure inside the container.
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California’s commercial Dungeness crab season delayed yet again
The reported numbers may be much lower than the actual number of entangled whales, said UC Santa Cruz professor of marine science Ari Friedlaender. He noted that the increasing humpback whale population is the result of years of conservation measures, including a ban on whaling. “We used to kill an awful lot of whales here…
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Radioactive Object Found at San Francisco's Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Raises New Concerns
Retired nuclear policy expert Daniel Hirsch, the former director of the Environmental and Nuclear Policy Program at UC Santa Cruz, said the most recent revelation — about the glass shard — is concerning because the Navy intends to eventually release the property to San Francisco and allow a developer to build over 10,000 homes there.…
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Controversy in California over ‘neutral’ Middle East history
There is no contradiction between having a viewpoint and producing history with integrity, says Jennifer Derr, founding director of the Center for Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz, who signed the letter. When students come to her class thinking of history as a collection of objective names and dates, she says, part…