Media Coverage
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UCSC’s Ralph Abraham keeps alive the memories of Santa Cruz’s hip golden era
Ralph Abraham, professor emeritus of mathematics, is profiled in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about his new book, "Hip Santa Cruz."
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25 Moments That Changed America
UC Santa Cruz humanities dean Tyler Stovall contributed to a Time Magazine feature titled "25 Moments That Changed America," selecting Busing is Mandated in Boston (June 21, 1974) as a significant moment in American history.
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UC survey finds nearly 1 in 5 students go hungry at times
Tim Galarneau, a food systems researcher with the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, was interviewed for a report by southern California public radio station KPCC on food insecurity among students. He is co-chair of a UC Global Food Initiative committee focused on student hunger.
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Meditation’s Political Potential
Politics professor Dean Mathiowetz talks about meditation’s significant political potential in an interview on the “Against the Grain” program on KPFA radio. Mathiowetz’s article “‘Meditation is Good for Nothing’: Leisure as a Democratic Practice” appears in the journal New Political Science.
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Mark Massoud: Three important points to help in understanding South Sudan’s worsening crisis
Politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud published an op-ed in the Washington Post on the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.
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Meet Carnegie Fellow Mark Fathi Massoud
The website PSNow, published by the American Political Science Association, featured an interview with politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud, a member of the 2016 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
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Stephen Kessler: Reading, writing and the humanities
Literature alumnus Stephen Kessler contributed an article to the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the value of a humanities education, written in response to a story about a team of UC Santa Cruz students who won a national competition for an essay about a project demonstrating the importance of the humanities.
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Millions Of Women Take A Long Walk With A 40-Pound Water Can
An NPR piece on a study showing women bear the brunt of collecting water across sub-Saharan Africa included quotes from sociology professor Ben Crow whose research includes improving water supply infrastructure in the region.
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First water clouds outside our solar system spotted just 7.2 light years from Earth
Astronomer Andrew Skemer was quoted in coverage of his research on a nearby brown dwarf, the coldest object known outside our solar system, including stories from the Daily Mail, Washington Post, Astronomy Now, Space.com, USA Today, Toronto Telegraph, Huffington Post, AP, NewsBeat Social, UPI, Yahoo News, Gizmodo, Breitbart, Popular Science, Nature World News, Peoples Daily,…
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New clues in search for Planet Nine
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney is quoted in a Science News story about the search for a possible Planet Nine.
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What’s being done to assess blue-green algae’s risk to humans
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela is quoted in an AP story about toxic cyanobacteria in freshwater lakes that ran in the Los Angeles Daily News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, San Bernardino County Sun, and other California newspapers.
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Rebooting the human genome
Genomics expert Benedict Paten is quoted in a Technology Review article about work on a new, more sophisticated human reference genome.