Media Coverage
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How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body
Some of these molecules might get transcribed only in particular types of cells or at a particular stage in embryonic development, so it would be easy to miss their moment of action. “They are incredibly cell-type specific,” says molecular biologist Susan Carpenter of the University of California, Santa Cruz. But because of that, she says,…
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Guest Commentary | Sending MAGA to Sacramento
Christine Hong, faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Literature at UC Santa Cruz, wrote an opinion article for the Santa Cruz Sentinel about ethnic studies content in California.
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Are Art History Majors More In Demand Than Computer Scientists?
T.J. Demos, a professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Cruz says, “there’s growing evidence that art history graduates possess distinctly marketable skills, including in critical thinking, visual analysis, foreign language training, and wide knowledge of cultural heritage, which employers across sectors are highly interested in.”
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Fishmeal and fish oil alternatives are here but a greater scale is needed for true impact
“Eighty seven percent of fishmeal and 74 percent of fish oil are consumed by the aquaculture feed industry, and the salmon sector is the largest user of both,” Assistant Professor Pallab Sarker at UC Santa Cruz told the Advocate. “This use of wild-caught fish to raise carnivorous species is concerning because of the depletion of…
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As farmworkers face longer, hotter harvest seasons, their risk of heat-related illness grows
Matt Sparke, co-director of the global and community health program, is creating an app that maps health risks related to climate change. The app can be used by community health workers, farmworkers, and policy makers.
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Socrates would be pleased: With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation
A host of philosophy-themed prison education programs have cropped up in recent years, many of them in the context of higher education.
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The Homework Machine: AI creates gray areas for students and teachers
Jessa Kirk is a former high school teacher and dean, who now works at the Academic Integrity department at UC Santa Cruz. She thinks that many schools are not doing enough to define what cheating with AI really means, and then discourage it.
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Judge weighs whether Trump violated federal law by deploying National Guard to LA
Dana Frank, Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed in an NBC report on state and federal governments giving their final arguments over the legality of President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Southern California.
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The AI Bump
Across Silicon Valley, educational institutions are launching focused credential programs in AI-related roles. UC Santa Cruz Extension offers U.C.–approved certificate tracks in AI application development and prompt engineering, accessible to current professionals and non‑technical learners alike.
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Five Astounding Ways Humans Are Driving Animal Evolution, Including Causing Lizards to Grow Longer Legs and Leading Moth Populations to Become Darker
Eric Palkovacs, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, says that fishermen often have a financial incentive to target and catch the largest fish.“That’s a direct selective pressure against large size,” he says, “and because fish get larger when they get older it’s also a selection against old age.”
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New FAIR Plan data reveals problem with zoning restrictions in California
UC Santa Cruz researchers argue that rapid population growth and development in WUIs throughout the country, but especially in California, has been driven by an affordable housing crisis.
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Where do UC alumni land jobs? See the list of companies for every campus
The San Francisco Chronicle shared data about the top employers of recent UC Santa Cruz alumni, along with the top job titles alumni reported two years and five years after graduation. These numbers come from data released by the University of California on alumni career pathways.