Media Coverage

  • 7X7

    Spring Arts 2025: Ruth Asawa, Colman Domingo, Bay Area Dance Week + More

    Professor Sir Isaac Julien’s recent work was highlighted as part of a list of best art shows to visit. I Dream a World at the de Young Museum opens on April 12, and is a retrospective on American history and race.

  • Good Times

    Hitting the Spotlight

    Senior Teaching Professor Donald Williams, founded UCSC’s African American Theater Arts Troupe and leads the campus’s Rainbow Theater. He was recognized by Good Times Santa Cruz as one of the top 50 “trailblazers” who shaped Santa Cruz County.

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    UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts’ ‘Paradise Blue’ delivers potent vision of Detroit

    This stunning review of the African American Theater Arts Troupe’s production of Paradise Blue puts special emphasis on Professor Don Williams powerful directorial skills. Writer Jake Thomas says “This is a powerful play full of emotional arcs and sparking with the electricity of music, lust and murder.”

  • Yahoo News logo

    that the restoration of this ocean feature could protect thousands of lives: 'We level the playing field'

    "Our modeling is a major advance in characterizing the effectiveness of nature-based infrastructure for coastal protection. The approach can also be applied to other ecosystems, such as beaches, marshes, oyster reefs, and mangrove forests," said Borja Reguero, who led the research at UC Santa Cruz.

  • WIRED

    The strange relationship between the evolutionary boom in an African lake and the explosion of a supernova

    Evidence of cosmic radiation debris arriving at the same time that a virus community in Africa was boosted. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz think the two factors are linked. They believe the radiation was likely powerful enough to break the double-stranded DNA of organisms, thereby driving mutations and diversifying species.

  • Grist

    Droughts are getting worse. Is fog-farming a fix?

    Peter Weiss, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been installing them in Pacifica, just south of San Francisco. In the summertime, fog can provide enough water to sustain a home's established plants without turning on the hose.

  • Earth.com

    Photos capture coyotes hunting and eating baby seals for the first time

    Motion-triggered cameras have captured these wild canines dragging baby seals away from mainland beaches. This discovery has sparked questions about how these predators use the shore as part of their menu. Led by UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. student Frankie Gerraty, the investigation uncovered details of coyote hunting patterns near seal rookeries. Also in USA Today,…

  • The Intercept

    Title 42 Isn’t About Public Health — It’s About Keeping Immigrants Out

    Associate Professor of Sociology Juan Pedroza says erroneously linking immigrant communities to the spread of infectious diseases has been a common anti-immigration strategy throughout U.S. History. “You can find in the United States plenty of evidence of people saying that immigrants are bringing disease and will be contaminating the nation, including public health,” he said.  

  • KION

    Closing out Black History Month, one UCSC study shows some disparities

    For Black History Month, KION covered a study out of UCSC's Institute for Social Transformation that highlights the ongoing disparity faced by black communities living in the Monterey and San Benito counties. The study considered issues like educational attainment, poverty levels, and access to health care.

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    UC Santa Cruz Ph.D. candidate writes environmental children’s book

    Brook Thompson, a Ph.D. student in environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz, shared some of her life experiences in her new children’s book, “I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience,” which will be published March 4.

  • Financial Express

    Beyond staying the course

    In this op-ed, Nirvikar Singh, a distinguished professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, argues that many policies available to the Centre (and potentially states), none radical, can even lead to faster growth in the short run while India’s demographics are still favorable.

  • Geographical

    Strontium: the metal with remarkable powers to help track ancestral roots

    A new strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa developed by Anthropology Professor Vicky Oelze could help descendants of the transatlantic slave trade to finally trace their roots. So far, the map has been used to precisely trace the origins of two people found in the Anson Street African Burial Ground: Kuto and Banza (both named…

Last modified: Mar 03, 2025