Media Coverage
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Crushed space rocks hint at exoplanets’ early atmospheric makeup
Astrophysicist Maggie Thompson was featured in a Science News story about her research using meteorites to study exoplanet atmospheres.
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California discloses math behind easing stay-at-home order
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in an Associated Press story, which ran on ABC News and other sites, about the lifting of stay-at-home orders in California.
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There's Good News And Bad News About The Coronavirus Variants And Vaccines
Biomolecular engineer Russ Corbett-Detig was quoted in a Buzzfeed news story about the new coronavirus variants.
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The U.S. Must Do More to Care for Its Caregivers
Professor Catherine S. Ramírez coauthored an opinion piece for The Atlantic that highlights the disparities in coronavirus-related benefits and support received by older Americans, compared to their caregivers—home health aides and nursing assistants who are often immigrants.
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How history textbooks will deal with the US Capitol attack
Daisy Martin, director of The History & Civics Project at UC Santa Cruz, joined a panel of experts gathered by The Conversation and weighed in on how textbooks might reflect the attack at the Capitol.
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Orange Is The New Black—For Bats
Biologist Winifred Frick was featured on the public radio program Science Friday discussing the discovery of a new bat species in West Africa.
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Santa Cruz County NAACP hosts virtual MLK Day march
Associate professor of history David Anthony was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the decades-long struggle for social justice and equity by black communities across the country.
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How the Biden administration can take action for biodiversity conservation
Biologist Erika Zavaleta was quoted in a ScienceLine article about environmental policy and the Biden administration.
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Missing: One Black Hole With 10 Billion Solar Masses
Astronomer Sandra Faber and her former graduate student Tod Lauer were featured in a New York Times article about research on the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
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Some California jobs lost to COVID will never be the same. Here’s what experts say
The Sacramento Bee launched a new series on the future of work in California, and the first article included professor Chris Benner's insights on how the rise of gig work is affecting job quality in sectors like grocery retail as the pandemic fuels e-commerce.
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ATLAS releases ‘full orchestra’ of analysis instruments
Physicist Giordon Stark was quoted in an article in Symmetry magazine about the ATLAS collaboration's efforts to make datasets from their experiments at the Large Hadron Collider more widely available.
