Media Coverage
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San Jose Museum of Art reopens to visitors with a splash
A Mercury News story about the reopening of the San Jose Museum of Art noted that it was now featuring Barring Freedom, "an exhibition co-organized with the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences that is incredibly topical."
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Looking for Another Earth? Here Are 300 Million, Maybe
Astronomer Natalie Batalha was quoted in a New York Times story about a study estimating the number of potentially habitable planets in the galaxy.
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Researchers Uncover Potential Target Approach for Alzheimer’s Disease
Biochemists Jevgenij Raskatov and Glenn Millhauser were featured in coverage of their research on Alzheimer's disease, including stories in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Medical Express, Bioengineer, Scienmag, Medical News, Technology Networks, and other media outlets.
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How many alien civilizations are out there? A new galactic survey holds a clue
Astronomer Natalie Batalha was quoted in a National Geographic story about the number of potentially habitable planets in the galaxy.
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Decentralized fact checking and exploration platform, Wiseper, selected to participate in LaunchPad Fellowship
Computer science graduate student Fatemeh Mirzaei was featured in a Santa Cruz Tech Beat story about a LaunchPad Fellowship for her startup Wiseper.
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The year of the blur: how isolation, monotony and chronic stress are destroying our sense of time
Craig Haney, a psychology professor who studies the effects of isolation, was tapped by The New York Times to explain how deprivation of normal social contact can distort our perceptions of the passing of time.
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Prisons' pandemic response: throw the infected into the hole
Psychology professor Craig Haney was quoted discussing the adverse psychological and health effects of solitary confinement in an article by The American Prospect.
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Will Trump’s efforts to attract Indian American voters pay off?
Associate feminist studies professor Anjali Arondekar, director of UCSC's Center for South Asian Studies, was featured in a Los Angeles Times video about how both Democrats and Republicans are trying to recruit Indian American voters in the U.S. presidential election.
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Thanks to Trump, U.S. no longer in denial of racism
Emeritus history professor Dana Frank was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about how President Trump “has made racism OK for many white people to practice.”
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"We Don’t Protest”: Borough Park’s Mask-Burning Orthodox Jewish Demonstrators
History professor Nathaniel Deutsch, director of the Center for Jewish Studies at UCSC, was quoted in a New Yorker magazine article about resistance to public health measures by traditional Orthodox Jewish communities in New York.
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Indian-American vote push spans Kashmir to Islamophobia
Indica News quoted associate feminist studies professor Anjali Arondekar, director of UCSC’s Center for South Asian Studies, about how both sides in the U.S. presidential election were using a targeted campaign toward Indian Americans based on religion and language.
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Can Rewilding Large Predators Regenerate Ecosystems?
Biologist James Estes was quoted in an article in The Scientist about the importance of large predators in ecosystems.