Sociology
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Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project to honor 14 heroes
The Santa Cruz Sentinel announced that Steve McKay, associate professor of sociology, is being honored as a "community hero" by the Community Assessment Project; CAP recognized his work on the local housing crisis and a major survey that captured the experiences of renters.
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Santa Cruz County survey finds 27 percent living three in a room
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is among the news outlets covering the "No Place Like Home" project led by Sociology faculty members Steve McKay and Miriam Greenberg; student researchers surveyed more than 1,700 renters in Santa Cruz County.
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Trump’s EPA: Who cares about environmental racism?
Assistant Professor of Sociology Lindsey Dillon was quoted in a Salon article about how the Trump administration is systematically rolling back environmental protections and dismantling the achievements of the environmental justice movement.
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UCSC’s Lindsey Dillon provides a model of meaningful activism in the Trump era
Lindsey Dillon, assistant professor of sociology, was profiled by the Santa Cruz Sentinel as part of the paper's "Santa Cruz County Stories" series.
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Cleaning up toxic sites shouldn't clear out the neighbors
Assistant Professor of Sociology Lindsey Dillon authored a piece for The Conversation about the cleanup and reuse of contaminated sites like the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco. Funded by the EPA's Brownfields Program, cleanup projects–which can have unintended consequences that include gentrification–are threatened by proposed budget cuts.
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The U.S. government is removing scientific data from the internet
Lindsey Dillon, assistant professor of sociology, was the featured guest on Ars Technica Live, where she discussed her research on the administration of the Environmental Protection Agency by the Trump administration.
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This American war on drugs
Professor Emeritus of Sociology Craig Reinarman was a featured guest on the National Public Radio show "On the Media," discussing federal drug policy and the American "war on drugs."
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New Research Brief Supports Recess for All Elementary School Students
Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, had her work featured in a blog in Education Week, the largest-read education daily in the country.
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Does Recess Need Coaching?
Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about her new research into the value of recess.
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Scott Roseman on mission of survival
UC Santa Cruz sociology grad Scott Roseman, co-founder of New Leaf Community Markets, was profiled in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. He credits the "eclectic education" he got at UCSC with inspiring his dedication to social change.
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Social science: Include social equity in California Biohub
Jenny Reardon and Katherine Darling of sociology and the Science and Justice Research Center, writing as members of “Science FARE (Feminist Anti-Racist Equity) Collective,” were among six authors of a letter in the journal Nature calling for the Chan/Zuckerberg Initiative to include social equity in the California Biohub.
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Privacy: The myth of anonymity
An article in Nature on genetic data and privacy quoted sociology’s Jenny Reardon and referenced a conference she led last spring called “Just Data.”