Media Coverage
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Plenty of Evidence for Recombination in SARS-CoV-2
Biomolecular engineer Russ Corbett-Detig was quoted in an article in The Scientist about variants of SARS-CoV-2 swapping genetic material (known as recombination).
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UC Santa Cruz is raising money to help visiting scholars from Afghanistan
KSBW covered fundraising efforts for UC Santa Cruz's Afghanistan Visiting Scholars Emergency Support Fund.
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What’s missing in India’s growth strategy?
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh wrote an opinion piece for Financial Express about trade openness and India's economy.
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What is Sharia? Islamic law shows Muslims how to live, and can be a force for progress as well as tool of fundamentalists
The Conversation discussed research by Politics and Legal Studies Professor Mark Fathi Massoud as part of a series of articles called "Understanding Islam."
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‘The need is pretty dire’: UC Santa Cruz raises funds to support fleeing Afghan scholars
Lookout Santa Cruz covered UC Santa Cruz efforts to bring at least two at-risk Afghan academics, activists, or journalists to safety on campus through visiting scholar placements.
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How Do Birds Move Across A Changing World? Ask This Colombian!
Incoming Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela was featured in a Forbes profile about her work studying birds.
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How to navigate covid news without spiraling
Erika Check Hayden, director of the Science Communication Program, was quoted in a Technology Review article about how to make sense of changing news about the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Review: ‘No Man of God’ shows there are still interesting stories to tell about Ted Bundy
The San Francisco Chronicle published a review of No Man of God, a new true crime film directed by UCSC alumna Amber Sealey (’96 Theater Arts), starring Elijah Wood.
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How would planting 8 billion trees every year for 20 years affect Earth’s climate?
Professor of Environmental Studies Karen Holl wrote about the potential and limitations of tree-planting efforts for The Conversation's "Curious Kids" series.
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Ever gotten angry at your partner in a dream and woken up mad? You’re not alone.
A column in The Washington Post discussed Distinguished Professor Emeritus G. William Domhoff's research on dreams.
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Parasite or poisoner
Research on a cytotoxic fungal peptide led by biochemist Victoria Klein from Scott Lokey's lab was featured in Science.
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The Sultan’s Communists: Jews In Morocco
The Times of Israel published a review of a book by history professor Alma Heckman about the role that radicalized Jews played in Morocco’s struggle for independence from France and in newly independent Morocco.