Media Coverage
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San Jose tech giant PayPal agrees to $30 million settlement with feds over DEI fund
The government’s contention that DEI is by nature discriminatory relies on the concept of “reverse discrimination,” in which dominant groups are seen as victims of racism, said UC Santa Cruz lecturer Nolan Higdon, who studies the technology industry and U.S. culture and politics. Higdon rejects the concept.
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UCSC researcher aims to fill gaps in Pajaro Valley air monitoring data, help farmworkers deal with pollution health impacts
Javier González-Rocha, an assistant professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, has been working to identify air monitoring data gaps in the Pajaro Valley to better inform farmworkers and the local community.
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Looking to DNA for answers as climate change outpaces California wildlife’s ability to evolve
“It can be helpful, but it’s not a solution unto itself,” said Karen Holl, a distinguished professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz. “What should be prioritized is reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
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‘How can that be’: Man died of thirst in Louisville jail
“I wish I could tell you that this is the first time I’ve ever heard this story, but it’s not,” said Craig Haney, a psychology professor at the University of California Santa Cruz who has studied the psychological consequences of confinement in jail and prison for decades.
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More of the men being deported now have lived in the U.S. for years
“It rips apart the fabric of the family,” said Regina Langhout, a psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz who has published studies about the effects of deportation on families. “The material and psychological effects can be felt years and years later.”
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Map Shows California Five Guys Locations Closing Amid Layoffs
In a study of the impact of the minimum wage increase, University of California, Santa Cruz economics lecturer Stephen Owen said in March that there’s been more interest in fast-food jobs, but less demand for workers because of the higher cost.
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How an H5N1 Outbreak in Elephant Seals Can Inform Pandemic Readiness
Johnson’s collaborator UC Santa Cruz physiological ecologist Roxanne Beltran, who regularly studies the elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park, will also integrate her spatial mapping of the seals to address the same seal-to-seal transmission question from an ecological angle.
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A Landslide in Alaska Set Off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come.
“The bar is, can we do better than missing most of these,” said Noah Finnegan, a geomorphologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study. “So getting a handle on why these precursors happen and what their relationship is to catastrophic collapse is an area many people are interested…
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7 Books That Use Family Archives to Break Generational Silence
Tamiko Nimura of Electric Literature named Emeritus Literature Professor Karen Tei Yamashita’s book Letters To Memory in its list of acclaimed books that tell untold stories by delving deeply into family archives. “It’s difficult to describe this inventive journey through family history, wartime incarceration and resettlement, but it’s poetic, funny, and deeply intelligent,” writes Nimura.
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The 18 Best Books of 2026 (So Far) – Esquire
In an Esquire books roundup, reviewer Adam Morgan said that Emeritus Literature Professor Karen Tei Yamashita deserves to be a literary household name and that he “devoured” her ambitious fifth novel, Questions 27 & 28, titled after the “so-called loyalty questionnaire” that 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced to take during their internment in concentration camps.
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AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch
Brant Robertson, a UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist, has had a front-row seat to this step change in science while supporting or using data from these missions. Robertson has spent the past 15 years working with Nvidia to apply GPUs to the problems of understanding space, first through advanced simulations testing theories about supernova explosions, and…
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Officers recall rescue of Bordeaux, sea lion found on Google campus in Sunnyvale
University of California, Santa Cruz professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Daniel Costa said that sea lions are also more comfortable around humans. “Sea lions are probably losing a little bit of their fear of people as they get more accustomed to it,” Costa said. “So, my first thought is that sea lion you guys…