Media Coverage
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Nagaland University hosts workshop on ‘Ecologies of care’
UC Santa Cruz cohosted the workshop, and Professor Dolly Kikon, director of Center for South Asian Studies, introduced the initiative as a collaborative dialogue to explore the Himalayan region’s various intersections, expressions and care practices.
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Hamptons real estate scam allegations raised red flags for years
The lawsuits filed by many of the homebuyers are also notable because they involve plaintiffs who had the cash to purchase homes but lacked access to traditional lenders, said Juan Manuel Pedroza, a sociology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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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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A world-renowned California scientist’s career is defined by chance
The minutes pass into hours as the swell rises and falls like craggy rock formations, lulling me into a meditative state. But the man at the helm, Ari Friedlaender, is on high alert. With a ball cap and sunglasses shielding his bearded face, and a pair of flip-flops on his feet, the world-renowned ecologist and…
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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.