Media Coverage
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UCSC prof Rob Fairlie talks Santa Cruz turning its dream of a small-business downtown into reality
Rob Fairlie spoke with Lookout Santa Cruz about his research on minority-owned businesses and shared thoughts on how to support diversity among small businesses in downtown Santa Cruz.
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Have American jails become the inferior replacement for mental hospitals?
Psychology Professor Craig Haney shared historical context with Salon on how policy decisions in the U.S. have resulted in more people with mental illness being incarcerated.
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Large Scientific Collaborations Aim to Complete Human Genome
UCSC Genomics Institute posdoctoral researcher Jordan Eizenga wrote an article in The Scientist about the past and future of the human reference genome.
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Supportive environment does little for LGBTQ youth mental health
Psychology Professsor Phil Hammack's research on LGBTQ mental health in different types of communities across California was featured in a Los Angeles Blade article.
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Webb telescope captures its first direct image of an exoplanet
Astronomer Aarynn Carter was quoted in widespread media coverage of the Webb telescope's first direct image of an exoplanet, including stories from CNN, NBC News, CBS News, Quanta, Gizmodo, Science News, LiveScience, Space.com, Daily Mail, Nature, Forbes, CNET, Yahoo News, and many other media outlets.
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Digging up DNA after tens of millennia
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in an article in Chemical & Engineering News about techniques for analyzing ancient DNA from early humans.
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The Animal Translators
Marine ecologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a New York Times article about researchers using machine learning to study animal communication.
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S.F. Bay’s algae bloom is the largest in over a decade
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in stories about a harmful algal bloom in San Francisco Bay in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Smithsonian, and other media outlets.
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Webb telescope is already challenging what astronomers thought they knew
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in a Washington Post story about the Webb telescope's early observations of distant galaxies.
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Webb Telescope Sees a Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere Way Out There
Astronomer Natalie Batalha was quoted in widespread coverage of her team's observations of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere, including stories in the New York Times, CNN, CNET, UPI, New Scientist, Science News, Sky & Telescope, IFL Science, and other media outlets.
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Politics influenced Gavin Newsom’s decision to veto supervised drug-use sites. But not in the way you think
Professor Emeritus of Sociology Craig Reinarman spoke with the San Francisco Chronicle about Gavin Newsom's recent decision to veto a bill that would have created pilot sites for supervised drug use.
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How Fixes to the $800 Billion Covid Relief Program Got Money to More Small Businesses
A Bloomberg analysis of changes to the Paycheck Protection Program shared congressional testimony from Economics Professor Rob Fairlie.