Social Sciences
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UCSC art and science researchers partner to save Joshua tree
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News ran a story about a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz art research associate Geoffrey Thomas and environmental studies graduate studenti Juniper Harrower, focusing on their study of the Joshua tree, a desert plant in peril.
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Saving old information can boost memory for new information
Time online and several other publications and websites wrote about a study on technology and memory that psychology professor Benjamin Storm published in the journal Psychological Science. Others covering the study include Science Daily, Economic Times, Huffington Post (UK), and Geek.com.
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Short Talk Can Change People’s Views on Marriage of Same-Sex Couples
Livescience asked psychology professor Phillip Hammack for comment in an article about a study that showed how attitudes toward gay marriage may change when one is asked about it by an openly gay person.
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Common-Core Math Standards Put New Focus on English-Learners
Education Week talked with education professor Judit Moschkovich for an article on best practices for teaching common core math to English learners.
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Dreams of Murder May Signal Real-Life Aggression
Emeritus professor of sociology Bill Domhoff was tapped to provide an alternate view in a Live Science article on research about people who dream of committing murder. The report was picked up by other blogs.
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After recession, wave of 'accidental' entrepreneurs
Economics department chair Rob Fairlie was featured in a CNBC report on the growth of entrepreneurs as a result of the great recession.
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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.