Social Sciences
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Food and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Anthropology professor Melissa Caldwell was interviewed at length for the Food Chain programme on BBC World about food in former communist countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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UCSC professor honored for prison research
Psychology and legal studies professor Craig Haney, selected to deliver the Faculty Research Lecture, was the focus of a Santa Cruz Sentinel advance story on the 2014 Founders Celebration. The San Jose Mercury News and Contra Cost Times posted it online.
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25 years after Bay Area quake, most don't have earthquake insurance
Marketwatch reporter Daniel Goldstein (Stevenson, '94, politics) set the scene for his Loma Prieta earthquake anniversary article at Stevenson College with quotes from alumni. The article was re-published by a variety of outlets including Yahoo Finance.
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Incarceration nation
Psychology professor Craig Haney was featured in an article in the American Psychological Association's Monitor magazine on the National Research Council's report on incarceration in America.
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UC Santa Cruz student dreams in three dimensions
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of undergraduate Hasti Afsarifard, an economics major with a minor in technology and information management, who is working on 3-D printer technology.
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Is There a Future for Wilderness?
Scientific American quoted Michael Soulé, professor emeritus of environmental studies, in a column ruminating on the notion of wilderness in the United States.
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What ‘age segregation’ does to America
Psychology professor Barbara Rogoff was quoted in a Boston Globe article about how we tend to segregate ourselves according to age.
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Drug war critics take in state of Santa Cruz pot scene
The Santa Cruz Sentinel accompanied sociology professor Craig Reinarman and colleague from City University of New York as they visited pot shops in Santa Cruz.
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Gridlock over border crisis continues
Héctor Perla Jr., assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies, appeared on the Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC to discuss the crisis over child immigrants from Central America.
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Young women with sexy social media photos seen as less competent by peers, study shows
A study by psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen and former UC Santa Cruz graduate student Elizabeth Daniels published online in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture received coverage from the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and television station KTLA in Los Angeles.
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U.S. foreign policy provoked immigration crisis
The San Francisco Chronicle published an opinion piece by Héctor Perla Jr., assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies, on the flood of child immigrants to the United States.
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How Solitary Confinement Hurts the Teenage Brain
The Atlantic magazine quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in an article on the consequences of solitary confinement on teens.