Media Coverage
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Shopify’s Secret Weapon Is Thousands of New Business Owners
Economics Professor Rob Fairlie was interviewed by The Wallstreet Journal about e-commerce trends and the risks of business startup failure during the pandemic.
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Kamala Harris: The exodus of women from the workforce is a national emergency
Vice President Kamala Harris's recent op-ed for The Washington Post cited research by Economics Professor Rob Fairlie that documented closures of women-owned businesses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
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UCSC Researchers Win Grant to Develop More Sustainable Aquaculture
Environmental Studies Professor Anne Kapuscinski and Associate Research Professor Pallab Sarker talked with Good Times about their new aquaculture research facility at the UCSC Farm and shared what's next in their work to develop more sustainable aquaculture feed.
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Conversational computers have come a long way
Computer scientist Marilyn Walker was quoted in a story about conversational computers in the Economist.
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Honduran president target of U.S. investigation, court filings show
Emeritus history professor and Honduras expert Dana Frank was quoted in a number of news outlets, including Reuters, The Guardian, and U.S. News & World Report, about new investigations into corruption by Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez.
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UCSC gears up to to begin search for COVID-19 variants in Santa Cruz County
Biomolecular engineer Miten Jain and Genomics Institute Executive Director Isabel Bjork were quoted in a Lookout Santa Cruz article about a new program to begin genome sequencing of coronavirus samples to track variants of the virus.
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Tracking the mutating COVID-19 virus: UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute speaks with KION
Biomolecular engineer Russ Corbett-Detig was featured in a KION TV News story about his work on tracking new variants of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
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In lockdown, 'weak-tie' friendships are the ones we're really missing most
Psychology Ph.D. student Andrew Guydish was quoted in The Telegraph discussing his research on "conversation reciprocity."
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9 million U.S. small businesses fear they won't survive pandemic
CBS Moneywatch quoted Economics Professor Rob Fairlie's recent testimony before the House Committee on Small Business and shared his updated numbers on small business ownership rates through the end of 2020.
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For marine life, human noise pollution brings ‘death by a thousand cuts’
Biologist Dan Costa was quoted in a Mongabay article about the effects of ocean noise on marine animals.
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The broken promise that undermines human genome research
Genome scientists David Haussler and Jim Kent were featured in a Nature article about the barriers to sharing genomic data.
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Current vaccines will aid against variant forms of COVID-19, UCSC professor says
Biomolecular engineer Rebecca DuBois was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the effectiveness of vaccines against new variants of the coronavirus.