Social Sciences
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Craig Reinarman: It’s High Time
Craig Reinarman, professor of sociology and legal studies, and alumna Wendy Chapkis, professor of sociology at the University of Southern Maine, are the authors of a package of articles on federal drug policy in Contexts, a quarterly magazine of the American Sociological Assn. that brings social research to general readers.
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Phillip Hammack: Going the distance: contact vs. motivation
The Jerusalem Post published an op-ed by Andrew Pilecki, a UCSC Ph.D. in psychology, and Phillip Hammack, associate professor of psychology, arguing that well-intentioned programs that promote contact to reduce prejudice are, at best, inconsequential, and at worst, harmful. Pilecki is a Fulbright post-doctoral researcher in Herzliya, Israel.
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Study says Sarao may not have been responsible for flash crash
Bloomberg Business News wrote an article about a draft paper, "The Flash Crash: A New Deconstruction," by Eric Aldrich in economics, Greg Laughlin, astronomy and astrophysics, and a Stanford colleague that analyzes on a millisecond level the May 2010 “flash crash” that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down nearly 1,000 points. Reuters and the…
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Jenny Reardon, sociologist between science and justice
The French daily Le Monde published a profile of Jenny Reardon, professor of sociology and director of the Science and Justice Research Center.
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Racial Identity, and Its Hostilities, Are on the Rise in American Politics
A New York Times columnist in a piece on working class voters referred to research by economics professor and department chair Rob Fairlie.
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Daniel Press: To help stop global warming, curb short-lived pollutants
Environmental studies professor Daniel Press and Veerabhadran Ramanathan of UC San Diego co-wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times calling for restrictions on methane, carbon soot, ozone and hydrofluorocarbon coolants.
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Rethinking Shari’a, Voices of Islam in California
An article on Muslims in California by Mark Fathi Massoud, associate professor of politics, and Kathleen M. Moore, of UC Santa Barbara, was published online in Boom: A Journal of California, a quarterly published by UCLA. The editors published the piece early because of its timeliness.
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Mark Massoud: How can universities deal with racism? Learn from war zones
The Washington Post published an op-ed by politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud on how universities can learn from post-war reconciliation when responding to allegations of racism.
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Minimum wage coalition forms in Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a coalition forming to raise the minimum wage that was announced at the Working for Dignity event organized by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies and sociology professor Steve McKay.
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Interview with Melissa Caldwell
En Route, the in-flight magazine of Air Canada, published a profile and interview with anthropology professor Melissa Caldwell.
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Santa Cruz students track working poor with ‘Census of the Invisible’
KQED News printed a version of a California Health Report on the “Working for Dignity” project by sociology professor Steve McKay’s class.
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More than a decade after release, they all come back
Distinguished psychology professor Craig Haney was quoted in a USA Today article that followed nine Texas inmates who were released from prison in 2002. The Crime Report published its own article about the USA Today article.