Media Coverage
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Amy Lonetree gives keynote address at Indigenous People’s Day celebration
Amy Lonetree, a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Ho-Chunk Nation citizen, gave the keynote presentation, “Visualizing Native American Survivance: A Photographic History of the Ho-Chunk Nation, 1879-1960,” at UW La Crosse’s Indigenous People Day celebration. Lonetree’s talk covered the unexplored the visual history of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
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Bay Area universities losing millions in minority grant funding
Ben Diaz, a Latino junior political science student at UC Santa Cruz said the university’s Hispanic-Serving Institution grant supports many resources for students, including its Chicanx Latinx Resource Center, El Centro.
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Volcano Worlds Might Be the First Exomoons Found by Astronomers
Co-author on the new study, postdoctoral researcher Athira Unni of the University of California, Santa Cruz, released measurements of the movement of sodium around WASP-49b, citing the rapid velocity around the system as a clue toward the origin being a volcanic satellite rather than stellar eruptions or other astrophysical sources.
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Silicon Valley Conference Calls For Deeper U.S.-India Cooperation In Tech And Innovation
The 8th U.S.-India Conference, organized by the All India Management Association (AIMA), drew a packed audience to the University of California, Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Campus on October 7.
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Normalizing Rejection for College Students
Facing rejection or failure can be an isolating experience. To address this, Emily Giovanelli and her colleagues at the Student Health Outreach and Promotion office and the UC Santa Cruz libraries created stations where students can share their latest failures.
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2025 Festival of Monsters features horror panel, roleplaying game
A feature story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted the Festival of Monsters, including an event with Literature Professor Kimberly Lau, who will discuss her book Specters Of The Marvelous: Race and Development of the European Fairy Tale on Thursday.
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An Earthling’s guide to planet hunting
Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. UC Santa Cruz astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working out how to find them anyway.
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DNA from rum-soaked fishes chronicles century of environmental change
By comparing DNA in historic specimens with that in modern fish populations, researchers discovered that fishes grew scarcer and their genetic diversity declined. That’s worrisome, says Malin Pinsky of the University of California, Santa Cruz, because “genetic diversity provides the raw material for adaptation to novel conditions. Less genetic diversity means less ability to adapt…
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2025 National Book Award Finalists Announced
Professor Emerita of Literature Karen Tei Yamashita was one of the judges for this year’s National Book Awards. Yamashita, who won the National Book Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. Yamashita was a judge for works of translated literature.
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Dialogs: Hope and Solidarity from Angela Davis, Nicole Mitchell, and the Black Earth Ensemble at the Chicago Humanities Festival
Author and activist Angela Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, had an on-stage dialogue in Chicago with world-renowned musician and Guggenheim Fellow Nicole Mitchell, who wrote a special composition for Davis.
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McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump’s Campus Deal Sounds Familiar to Her.
In a feature story written by UC Santa Cruz alumna Anita Chabria (BA, History), Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies Bettina Aptheker called the Trump Administration’s “compact for academic excellence” a major threat to free speech. “It’s intended to roll back any of the gains we’ve made,” Aptheker said of Trump’s policies. “No university should…
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Making Problems Sexy
Santa Cruz filmmakers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle released their latest film, the third in an Ecosexual/Environmental trilogy. Stephens is a professor of art at UC Santa Cruz. Additional coverage in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.