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Idyllwild Town Crier
Reyna Grande recounts her immigration odyssey
A story about award-winning alumna author Reyna Grande in the Idyllwild Town Crier noted that Grande is the first in her family to have graduated from college, with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing, film and video from UC Santa Cruz.
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Good Times
UCSC’s Bettina Aptheker on Angela Davis and the Signs of the Times
The Santa Cruz Good Times ran a cover story about UCSC emerita professor Angela Davis, including interviews with both her and UCSC Feminist Studies professor Bettina Aptheker about Davis's life and the new documentary film, Free Angela and All Political Prisoners.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
A taste of college: Middle school students participate in UCSC workshops
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about the first annual Middle School Summit hosted by UCSC, which brought more than 300 Santa Cruz County 7th-graders to campus, quoting associate vice chancellor of enrollment management Michelle Whittingham, UCSC Police Chief Nader Oweis, and UCSC senior Soraya Danesh.
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San Jose Mercury News
Lick Observatory celebrates 125 years of innovation
Astronomer Elinor Gates is featured in a San Jose Mercury News article about the 125th anniversary of Lick Observatory that also ran in the Sacramento Bee, Contra Costa Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Inside Bay Area, and Silicon Valley.com.
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Wall Street Journal
Buying a computer won’t raise your kids’ grades
The Wall Street Journal wrote about a paper published by economics professors Rob Fairlie and Jon Robinson on the educational outcomes of middle and high-school students using computers. The paper was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and was also covered by Slate, UPI.com and HispanicBusiness.com.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
California Naturalist Program offers learning, with a huge dollop of fun
A Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the California Naturalist Program offered at the UCSC Arboretum included quotes from Arboretum director Brett Hall and references to the many UCSC faculty who teach classes in the program.
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Silicon Valley Business Journal
Into gaming? Silicon Valley now has a masters degree for that
Jim Whitehead, chair of computer science, was quoted in a Silicon Valley Business Journal article about the new M.S. degree in games and playable media offered from the UCSC Silicon Valley Center. Stories about the new degree also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, KGO-TV, and Education Technology.
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Nature
Seismic fault’s temperature implies deadly earthquake involved low friction
Seismologist Emily Brodsky presented preliminary results from her research on the Tohoku earthquake at a meeting in Japan, leading to a news story in Nature.
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Good Times
Growing Berries Without Bromide
The Good Times wrote about environmental studies professor Carole Shennan's research in finding alternatives to methyl bromide to combat soil pathogens in strawberry fields.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Erin Linney: Santa Cruz needs an energy code
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an op-ed by Erin Linney, an environmental studies student who graduated after winter quarter. Linney wrote about the need for an energy code in Santa Cruz.