Media Coverage
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‘Rage-giving’ bolstered migrant nonprofits through Trump’s first term. How will they fare in the next?
Research by UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor Juan Pedroza found that giving to immigrant-serving nonprofits increased markedly during the first Trump Administration. "It’s no secret that right out the gate, Trump went after immigrants, early and often and loudly,” said Pedroza. “It’s encouraging and impressive that all these different sources knew where to get the…
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As Los Angeles burns, Santa Cruz County officials urge wildfire prep — and not just in the mountains
Santa Cruz Local shared information about an upcoming wildfire preparedness event co-hosted by UC Santa Cruz's Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies.
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Why California keeps putting homes where fires burn
Miriam Greenberg, an urban sociologist at UC Santa Cruz has argued that academics and policymakers need to see residential expansion into the state’s most fire-prone areas as yet another reflection of California’s affordability crisis. “People are looking to the (wildland-urban interface) as one of the only places that has capacity for housing,” she said.
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Debunking 5 claims about the California wildfires
Brent Haddad, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, corrected President-elect Trump's false claims about water for firefighting efforts in the Los Angeles area. "No water restoration declaration was put before Gov. Newsom," Hadded told ABC News in an email.
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Why the legacy media suddenly sound like Bernie Sanders
Nolan Higdon, a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, argues in this op-ed that the results of the 2024 election forced a reckoning in legacy media, where they had to confront the fact that they were wrong and Bernie Sanders was right, when it came to…
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Cycling through Kansas, I've found people working across divisions
Jenny Reardon, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has spent a few weeks bicycling through her home state of Kansas every year since 2017. In this op-ed, she shares some of her observations and notes that Kansans are working on finding common ground.
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Fact check: As wildfires rage, Trump lashes out with false claims about FEMA and California water policy
Brent Haddad, an environmental studies professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clarified that “there was never a ‘water restoration declaration’ in California that the Governor refused to sign,” and “there is no connection between environmental protection in northern California and low-flow fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades.” Haddad was also quoted on this topic in a wide…
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Up to $150bn damage in LA fires unleashes wave of anger at cancelled insurance
Galina Hale, a professor of economics at the University of California Santa Cruz, told The i Paper that insurance companies use models to determine what is termed “actuarily fair” insurance policy pricing. “Some areas have such high risks that insurance companies would have to charge insurance premia above what people might be willing to pay,"…
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How Venture Capital Flattens Neighborhoods
Associate Teaching Professor of Community Studies Alison Alkon explained how gentrification tends to happen in phases, and the latest phase, funded by venture capital, has attempted to co-opt the aesthetic of the independent businesses that are often last hold-outs in the resistance against gentrification. “The force of this countermovement that was trying to make things kind…
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Listen to the visually impaired in the quest for better audio descriptions
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered Professor of Computational Media Sri Kurniawan's efforts to a work with the local blind and visually impaired community to identify useful features for new automatically generated audio description programs.
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Americans are taught FDR was the hero of the Great Depression. For one historian, that’s erasure
In The Guardian, journalist Lauren Aratani profiles UC SAnta Cruz Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History Dana Frank about her new book, What Can We Learn About The Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action In Hard Times.
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Humpback whale makes record journey from South America to Africa
“Our dogmatic thinking is that (whales) always go to the place where they came from,” said Ari Friedlaender, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. “But there has to be some movement where you get some (animal) explorers that decide, for whatever reason, to…