Media Coverage
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Cooking oil has a deforestation problem. A startup says it has a solution.
Professor Julie Guthman, a social scientist who studies food systems, spoke with Grist about the challenges of assessing sustainability claims in new food products that don't disclose full information about their supply chains and processes.
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“Voices Of Pajaro” Brings South County Reality To UCSC
Good Times magazine covered an event organized by UCSC's Center for Reimagining Leadership that shared stories and experiences from the Pajaro levee breach and encouraged students to get involved. Astronomy and Astrophysics Professor Enrico Ramirez‑Ruiz is the center's director, and Environmental Studies Professor Sikina Jinnah is associate director.
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How farmers used California's floods to revive underground aquifers
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Hannah Waterhouse discussed aquifer water management with KTVZ News Channel 21.
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Could power plants fuel alternative aquafeeds?
Aquaculture news organization The Fish Site covered new research by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Pallab Sarker that will study whether microalgae grown using power plant emissions could be an effective ingredient in feed for trout. Additional coverage in All About Feed.
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Moonshots and mind games
Distinguished Professor of Economics Nirvikar Singh wrote an op-ed for Financial Express about how India can achieve world-class excellence with its domestic institutions and resources.
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Why people leave prison 'more broken' than when they entered
GBH interviewed distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney about the challenges that formerly incarcerated people experience when reentering society.
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Democrats flock to picket lines where workers worry about their electric vehicle push
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Mijin Cha spoke with The Boston Globe about how electric vehicles relate to the United Auto Workers strike. “It’s really important that we don’t say it’s workers versus the environment,” she said. “They’re not against an electric vehicle transition; they just don’t want to be left behind.”
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UC Santa Cruz climate justice forum discusses Pajaro Valley flood, encourages student action
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered an event organized by UCSC's new Center for Reimagining Leadership that gathered community leaders to teach students about injustices in the response to the Pajaro levee breach and what they can do to get involved in the community.
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Get Your Monster On In Time For Halloween At University Of California, Santa Cruz
Forbes Magazine ran a detailed feature story about UC Santa Cruz's Festival Of Monsters, which kicks off on Friday the 13th this month. The magazine described UCSC's Center for Monster Studies as "a scholarly center devoted to investigating the many definitions of monsters and monstrosity throughout history and culture."
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Teaching Patriarchy Post-'Barbie'
Lindsay Knisely, a lecturer in the Humanities Division, penned this opinion piece. She notes that this summer’s Barbie film has moviegoers around the world talking about the patriarchy. Now that we have the language to describe our predicament, it’s critically important to keep talking about the patriarchy, and to keep going down the path that…
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AI: Trust & Responsibility
Last week, Axios hosted an Expert Voices roundtable discussion in San Francisco featuring local leaders across government, the tech industry and AI startups. One of the featured experts was Linda MacDonald Glenn, founding director & faculty, UC Santa Cruz Center for Applied Values and Ethics in Advanced Technologies.
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As heat waves warm the Pacific Ocean, effects on marine life remain murky
Heather Welch, a marine spatial ecologist at UC Santa Cruz, and other researchers have created statistical models designed to predict where animals will go when things heat up. “So one of the tricky things with heat wave impacts is you have to be lucky and actually have direct observations during the events,” she said.