Social Sciences
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Holiday gift-givers want their money to matter. Companies, large and small, are taking notice.
CNBC cited research by economics professor Rob Fairlie in their coverage about consumers choosing to support Black-owned businesses this holiday season.
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California's open Senate seat prompts guessing game
Politics professor Daniel Wirls talked with KAZU host Doug McKnight about the factors that may affect who Governor Newsom chooses to fill Kamala Harris' open Senate seat.
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Will California’s small businesses survive another COVID-19 surge without more help?
Economics professor Robert Fairlie was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the strain that the latest COVID-19 surge is putting on small businesses.
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UC Santa Cruz researchers develop environmentally sustainable fish feed
Environmental Studies Department faculty members Anne Kapuscinski and Pallab Sarker were interviewed in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about a research breakthrough from their ecological aquaculture lab.
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Can industrial aquaculture grow vegetarian fish?
Pallab Sarker, an associate research professor in environmental studies, was featured in Anthropocene Magazine for a sustainability breakthrough from the ecological aquaculture research lab he co-leads with sustainability science and policy expert Professor Anne Kapuscinski.
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The year of the blur: how isolation, monotony and chronic stress are destroying our sense of time
Craig Haney, a psychology professor who studies the effects of isolation, was tapped by The New York Times to explain how deprivation of normal social contact can distort our perceptions of the passing of time.
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Prisons' pandemic response: throw the infected into the hole
Psychology professor Craig Haney was quoted discussing the adverse psychological and health effects of solitary confinement in an article by The American Prospect.
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U.S. Black-owned firms make surprise comeback to pre-Covid level
Economics Professor Robert Fairlie is quoted in Bloomberg interpreting new trends in his research on the effects of COVID-19 on Black-owned businesses.
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White House announces Sudan Israel deal
UC Santa Cruz politics and legal studies professor Mark Fathi Massoud talked with BBC World News about the implications of a recent Trump administration deal to normalize relations between Sudan and Israel.
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California, Reject Prop 22
The New York Times editorial board cited a study led by Professor Chris Benner that showed workers performing the majority of app-based ride hailing and delivery services in San Francisco are typically working full time. Benner is director of the Institute for Social Transformation and a professor of environmental studies and sociology.
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Science Friday Book Club: Conjuring An Alternate History Of Colonization
Catherine S. Ramirez, a professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, joined NPR's Science Friday to discuss Chicanofuturism as part of a book club series exploring New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color.
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California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse
Propublica reporters turned to environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball for a discussion of California housing policy that forces people closer to the edge of wilderness areas for affordable housing and how that impacts the effects of wildfires on property.