February

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  February 19, 2019 - Hastings Tribune

  ACLU: Expert reports about Nebraska prisons 'quite scathing'

  The Hastings Tribune reported on the role of Craig Haney, distinguished professor of psychology, in a lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the Nebraska Department of Corrections alleging that conditions and crowding endanger the health and safety of prisoners every day. 
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  February 20, 2019 - Vancouver Sun

  Astrophysicist joins race for Greens in Burnaby North-Seymour

  Doctoral candidate Amita Kushner was featured in a Vancouver Sun story about her candidacy for MP in Canada's upcoming federal election.
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  February 20, 2019 - San Francisco Chronicle

  UC Santa Cruz to offer 'Serious Games' degree in fall 2019

  Computational media faculty Michael John, Sri Kurniawan, and Jim Whitehead were quoted in stories from SF Gate and other media outlets about the new master's degree program in serious games.
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  February 19, 2019 - NBC News

  How one of America's harshest isolation units was exposed from the inside

  NBC News covered Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney's key role in a settlement that led to the curtailment of solitary confinement in the state of Georgia.
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  February 18, 2019 - Women's Health

  What Does ‘Skoliosexual’ Mean?

  Psychology Professor Phil Hammack was featured in a Women's Health article about the meaning of "skoliosexual," which describes people who are attracted to those who identify as nonbinary or don't identify as cisgender.
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  February 13, 2019 - CNN

  Companies use your data to make money. California thinks you should get paid

  CNN Business tapped Chris Benner, professor of sociology and environmental studies, for insight into "data dividends," which Gov. Gavin Newsom mentioned in his State of the State address.
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  February 08, 2019 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

  Months locked in a tiny box — how solitary confinement can erode mental health

  Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney was featured in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's recent coverage of the mental health impacts of solitary confinement.
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  February 06, 2019 - San Francisco Chronicle

  Nion McEvoy receives inaugural Di Rosa Award at Napa art center

  The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about alumnus and philanthropist Nion McEvoy being honored at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, noting that "as an English major at UC Santa Cruz, McEvoy befriended painters, poets and musicians."

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  February 05, 2019 - The Brooklyn Rail

  Artseen: Forest Law

  The Brooklyn Rail featured a review of the Forest Law exhibition at UCSC's Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, quoting art professor T.J. Demos, who gave public remarks at the opening.
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  February 06, 2019 - Santa Cruz Sentinel

  Fascism is rising, warns former Secretary of State Albright in Santa Cruz visit

  The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered a sold-out event with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in conversation with alumna and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Martha Mendoza before a crowd of more than 2,500, presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UCSC. The story also ran in San Jose's Mercury News. The Santa Cruz Good Times also published a cover story on Albright in advance of the event.
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  February 08, 2019 - R&D Magazine

  Novel electrocatalyst outperforms platinum in alkaline hydrogen production

  Materials scientists Shaowei Chen and Bingzhang Lu were quoted in coverage of their research on novel catalaysts for hydrogen production, including stories from R&D Magazine, Materials Today, Nanowerk, Science Daily, Power Systems Design, AZO Materials, and other media outlets.
  
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  February 10, 2019 - KSAT

  Groundbreaking study uses small chip to immediately detect Zika, stage of infection

  Virus detection technology developed by electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was featured in a story from ABC News affiliate KSAT in San Antonio, Texas.
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  February 07, 2019 - Livermore Independent

  Former Livermore physicist directs UC astronomical observatories

  The Livermore Independent ran a profile of astronomer Claire Max, director of UC Observatories.
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  February 08, 2019 - National Geographic

  Our galaxy is due to crash into its neighbor—but when?

  Astronomer Brant Robertson was quoted in a National Geographic story about predictions of an eventual collision between the Milky Way galaxy and the nearby galaxy Andromeda.
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  February 08, 2019 - Santa Cruz Sentinel

  Black market poachers coming for California’s coastal succulents

  Botanist Stephen McCabe was quoted in an article about poachers collecting rare succulents from the wild in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Chico Enterprise Record, and other newspapers.
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  January 29, 2019 - Santa Cruz Tech Beat

  CruzHacks has established its credibility inside and outside of Santa Cruz

  Santa Cruz Tech Beat ran a story about the UCSC hackathon, CruzHacks 2019.
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  February 07, 2019 - Scientific American

  Desalination could cause ecological sea change

  Ocean scientist Adina Paytan was featured on the Scientific American podcast "60-Second Science" discussing her research on the ecological effects of desalination plants.
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  February 04, 2019 - San Francisco Chronicle

  Calif. professor: Self-driving cars could more than double traffic in San Francisco

  Environmental Studies Associate Professor Adam Millard-Ball's research on self-driving cars attracted widespread attention and generated stories in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, MIT Technology Review, and other media outlets.
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  February 04, 2019 - Santa Cruz Sentinel

  Scientists to team up with whale-watching crews, tourists to study the giant mammals in Monterey Bay

  Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey Herald, and San Jose Mercury News about his efforts to work with whale-watching crews to collect information about whales in Monterey Bay.

January

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  January 28, 2019 - Santa Cruz Good Times

  Author Micah Perks on 'True Love'

  The Santa Cruz Good Times featured a review of literature professor Micah Perks's new book of short stories, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape.

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  January 28, 2019 - The Times of Israel

  Can Jewish Customs Be Crowd-Sourced?

  The Times of Israel ran a story about The Minhag Project: A Digital Archive of Hasidic Customs, created by history professor Nathaniel Deutsch, noting it “is being developed as a crowd-sourced online research project of the innovative Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at the University of California Santa Cruz."
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  January 31, 2019 - PhysOrg

  Study of brine discharge from desalination plant finds good news and bad news

  Ocean scientist Adina Paytan was quoted in coverage of her research on the environmental impact of desalination plants, including stories in PhysOrg, BrightSurf, Technology Networks, Bioengineer, and other media outlets.
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  January 30, 2019 - NOVA

  Archaeologists Find New Way to Determine Sex of Cremated Individuals

  Professor Emerita Alison Galloway was quoted in a PBS Nova report about new methods to determine the sex of cremated human remains.
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  January 29, 2019 - PhysOrg

  MaNGA data release includes detailed maps of thousands of nearby galaxies

  Astronomer Kevin Bundy was featured in coverage of his team's release of thousands of galaxy maps, including stories from PhysOrg, Science Daily, Space Daily, SpaceRef, Daily Heralds, and other media outlets.
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  January 30, 2019 - Science

  ‘This is shocking.’ An undersea plague is obliterating a key ocean species

  Biologists Mark Carr and Melissa Miner were quoted in widespread coverage of the ecological effects of sea star wasting disease, including stories in Science, Atlantic, Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, Gizmodo, Smithsonian, Earther, and other media outlets.
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  January 29, 2019 - San Jose Mercury News

  Hispanic-majority counties as likely to cooperate with ICE as regions with fewer Latinos: study

  The San Jose Mercury News covered new research by Juan Pedroza, assistant professor of sociology, that analyzed the demographics of deportation and revealed a "protective effect" for non-citizens living in communities that are 20-40 percent Hispanic.
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  January 28, 2019 - KAZU

  UC Santa Cruz Hires Its First Activist In Residence

  Local NPR affiliate KAZU Radio did a story about Isaí Ambrosio, the new activist-in-residence hired by Sylvanna Falcon, associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and the director of the Research Center for the Americas.
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  January 29, 2019 - Scientific American

  Vaccinating mice may finally slow Lyme disease

  Biologist Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a Scientific American article about vaccinating mice to combat Lyme disease.