Author: Jennifer McNulty
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Americans willing to sacrifice to reduce gap between rich and poor, doctoral candidate finds
Contrary to the stereotype of Americans as self-interested individualists, the majority care more about growing economic inequality than we’ve been led to expect, and many would sacrifice personal gain for the well-being of others, according to research b
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Tune in for the latest from the Social Documentation Program
Briana O’Higgins is a public radio junkie.
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UCSC students team up with public radio producer Nikki Silva
For eight lucky students last quarter, award winning independent radio producer Nikki Silva offered the ideal blend of inspiration, instruction, and encouragement.
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Go East, young man: Alumnus Mark Headley says UCSC prepared him for work he never dreamed of–investing in Asia
When he graduated from UCSC in 1983, Mark Headley (B.A. politics and economics, Stevenson College) had a mean fencing game and a deep understanding of the political and economic factors shaping Asia.
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Improve teacher quality and retention by broadening teacher preparation, professor says
Aspiring teachers come to the profession with a wealth of life experience that shapes their training, their work in the classroom, and their longevity in the occupation, says the author of the new book Teaching What They Learn, Learning What They Live
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Shopping Our Way to Safety: Sociology professor Andrew Szasz says ‘buying green’ may be lulling consumers into a false sense of security
Like a marketer’s dream come true, Americans have responded to environmental degradation by shopping, as if buying bottled water and organic vegetables will protect them from pollution.
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UCSC alumna Dana Priest wins Pulitzer Prize for Walter Reed exposé
Dana Priest, the Washington Post reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her work exposing the government’s secret ‘black site’ prisons, has won journalism’s highest honor again, this time for her exposé of the mistreatment of wounded veteran
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Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew receives faculty award from Division of Social Sciences
Social psychologist Thomas Pettigrew’s pathbreaking research on racism has earned him international honors as well as the admiration of his peers at UC Santa Cruz, who have named him the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty
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Blood and Oil: New environmental studies class proves popular with students
In only two years, the new class Blood and Oil: Energy, the Middle East, and War has become legendary on campus.
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Eighteen talented undergraduates travel to Costa Rica with anthropology class
Imagine slogging through humid rainforests so dense your pace slows to a crawl, encountering spiders as big as your hand, plants that burn your skin, and mud so deep you sink up to your knees. And loving it.