Media Coverage
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Vermont Conversation: A new film traces Rutland’s struggles with poverty and xenophobia
VTDigger, an investigative journalism news platform that reports on politics, businesses, and public policy of Vermont, ran a story about For the Love of Rutland, a 2020 documentary feature by associate film and digital media professor Jennifer Maytorena Taylor.
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Fil-Am’s fantasy novel mines native music, culture for resistance, healing
The Philippine Daily Inquirer published a story about a debut fantasy novel by educator, kulintang musician and UCSC alumnus Conrad J. Benedicto, released by Kularts, promoter of tribal and contemporary Philippine art.
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America’s Best Colleges for Student Voting
Washington Monthly recognized efforts to increase student voting at UC Santa Cruz. Student Union Assembly leaders who mobilized the campus community as part of these efforts included Jessica Xu, Alice Malmberg, and Judith Guitierrez in 2018 and Soren Whiting and Rojina Borzorgnia in 2020.
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Growing Uncertainty in the Central Valley
An article by The New Yorker on disruptions to agriculture in California's Central Valley discussed Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Madeleine Fairbairn's research on how farmland is increasingly being bought up by financial investors.
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Black Business Owners Are Up 38% in U.S. From Pre-Covid Levels
Bloomberg shared the latest findings on business ownership rates among Black Americans from Economics Professor Rob Fairlie.
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The inaccurate link between body ideals and health
Anthropology Professor Nancy Chen gave a TED Salon talk about cultural body ideals and health.
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Two Grants To Help UC Santa Cruz Improve Faculty Diversity
Diverse shared the news of two new grant-funded UC Santa Cruz programs that will support students from underrepresented backgrounds in building faculty careers.
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Opinion: I created the first ethnic studies program at my high school
Izadora Amaris Lopez McGawley, a third generation Chicane UCSC student with a double major in critical race and ethnic studies, and community studies, contributed an opinion piece to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Welcome to ‘Frequency’: MAH debuts technological arts festival
A Lookout story about a new Museum of Art & History festival called Frequency: A Festival of Light, Sound & Digital Culture, noted that “half of the artists represent Santa Cruz, an epicenter for digital arts partly because of the Digital Arts & New Media program at UC Santa Cruz."
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How sea otters can fight climate change
Marine ecologist Jim Estes and alumnus Brent Hughes were quoted in a BBC News story about sea otters and kelp forests.
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Prepped to fail: why countries must learn hard lessons from Covid
Professor of Politics Matt Sparke, who is executive director of UC Santa Cruz's Global and Community Health program, coauthored a commentary for The Telegraph on the public health lessons countries must learn from the pandemic.