Media Coverage
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Orion’s Twin Rogue Planets Inexplicably Blaze with Intense Radio Waves
“The Orion Nebula is just so far away that I would never have expected there to be detectable radio emission,” says Melodie Kao, a planetary radio expert at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not part of the team.
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Can science save the northern white rhino from extinction and even bring back the dodo?
"Identical copies of things are never going to happen. But that's not the way evolution works anyway. If we think about de-extinction in a logical, ethical, ecologically sustainable way, it can't be this purist ideal of what the extinction means. Instead, it has to be this creation of something new that's adapted for the habitat…
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Sharks, turtles and other sea creatures face greater risk from industrial fishing than previously thought
Examining five years of data from fishing vessel location devices and the habitats of 14 large marine species, including seabirds, sharks, turtles, sea lions and tunas, we found that our estimates of risk to these animals increased by nearly 25% when we accounted for the presence of dark vessels.
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Beth Shapiro Joins Colossal as Chief Science Officer
Colossal Biosciences, the world’s first de-extinction company, today announced that UC Santa Cruz professor Beth Shapiro, internationally renowned evolutionary molecular biologist, leader in paleogenomics, and ancient DNA expert, has joined as Chief Science Officer.
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Is there enough prey for beluga whale survival?
“We consider the balance between calories in and calories out (that is metabolic balance) a key factor for survival in beluga whales,” explained Terrie Williams, lead researcher from the University of California, Santa Cruz. “It is the basis of understanding the biological machinery that drives large mammals.”
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Near-total isolation of juvenile girls at the ACJ raises concerns of illegal solitary confinement
Pittsburgh City Paper interviewed Psychology Professor Craig Haney about the increased risks of solitary confinement for juveniles.
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How the ‘Mob Wife’ aesthetic can help us think about Latinidad
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies Catherine Ramírez for perspective on how the "mob aesthetic" trend compares to historical aesthetics of excess within Latinx communities.
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Should Big Pharma pay poor countries for finding new diseases?
Vox discussed research by Politics Professor and Global and Community Health Program Co-Director Matt Sparke on how the COVID pandemic demonstrated that prioritizing intellectual property rights above all else entrenches global inequalities in access to medications and treatments.
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‘It was the perfect storm’: the fatal crash that changed criminal justice in San Francisco
Politics Professor Anjuli Verma spoke with The Guardian about how a New Year's Eve car crash in San Francisco fueled fears about crime in the city.
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Tax Ivy League Endowments, and Fund Public Higher Ed
Jacobin Magazine cited research by Economics Professor George Bulman, which found that colleges and universities with larger endowments do provide more financial aid, but they also enroll fewer low-income students and students of color. As their endowment wealth helps them become higher ranked, they become more selective, rather than increasing the size or diversity of their…
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Golden State Warriors hold STEAM Fest for students
KTVU's coverage of the Golden State Warriors' annual STEAM fest highlighted UCSC's demonstration table at the event.
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A Tale of Two Sea Level Rise Solutions
Environmental Studies Ph.D. student Amanda Stoltz spoke with Sierra about climate gentrification. "Not only are lower-income and BIPOC communities already bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, but also rising real estate prices may continue to push those communities out of climate-safe neighborhoods and into areas more at risk," she said.