Research
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UCSC’s new Center for Integrated Water Research will help cities and regions secure safe and reliable water
A new interdisciplinary research center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is bringing an innovative, regional approach to the challenge of meeting the demand for safe and reliable water.
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Jonathan Fox publishes new book about accountability politics
In his new book, Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico, Latin American Studies professor Jonathan Fox explores how the seeds of accountability grow in authoritarian environments.
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Environmental protection can’t be bought, says author of new book Shopping Our Way to Safety
Like a marketer’s dream come true, Americans have responded to environmental hazards by shopping, as if buying bottled water and organic vegetables will protect them and their loved ones. But sociologist Andrew Szasz says “buying green” offers little real
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Researchers cite limitations of genetic ancestry tests, urge consumers to use caution
Even as consumers embrace commercial genetic ancestry tests to trace ancestral roots or fill in gaps in the family tree, a team of researchers today (Oct. 19) is urging buyers to use caution when interpreting test results.
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UC Santa Cruz anthropologist Nathaniel Dominy wins prestigious $625,000 Packard Fellowship
Nathaniel J. Dominy, a gifted young anthropologist at UC Santa Cruz, has received a prestigious Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it was announced today (Tuesday, October 9).
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Zavella coedits new book on women and migration
Patricia Zavella, professor of Latin American and Latino studies, has coedited the new book Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader.
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New book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) explains how self-deception dooms marriages, starts wars, and promotes a culture of unaccountability
In the new book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), Elliot Aronson spells out how the psychological mechanism of self-justification puts us on a slippery slope of self-deception that frequently gets us into enormous trouble when we are unable to ac
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Scientists reconstruct prehistoric behavior and ecology of northern fur seals
A team of researchers has documented major changes in the behavior, ecology, and geographic range of the northern fur seal over the past 1,500 years using a combination of techniques from archaeology, biochemistry, and ecology.
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UC Santa Cruz research team sheds light on diet of early human ancestors
The diet of early human ancestors probably included bulbs and rhizomes, according to researchers at UC Santa Cruz who have shed new light on a conundrum that has puzzled anthropologists for eight years.
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Climate change could usher in “boom and bust” population cycles and make species prone to extinction, says UC Santa Cruz conservation biologist
Climate change could trigger “boom and bust” population cycles that make animal species more vulnerable to extinction, according to Christopher C. Wilmers, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.