Media Coverage
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Can We Trust the Police to Intervene in Fellow Officer Misconduct?
Anjuli Verma, assistant professor of politics, coauthored an op-ed for The Jurist about whether the police can be trusted to intervene in cases of misconduct by fellow officers.
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Be not dismayed when feeling helpless in today’s America
John Brown Childs, professor emeritus of sociology, published an op-ed in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about reasons to feel hopeful during these troubling times.
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5 reasons to make sure recess doesn't get short shrift when school resumes in person
Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, coauthored an opinion piece for The Conversation about the importance of recess that appeared in the Houston Chronicle.
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Why Some Black-Owned U.S. Businesses Are Hardest Hit by Coronavirus Shutdowns
Economist Rob Fairlie's work on the impact of the pandemic on black-owned businesses continues to get widespread media attention, including from Reuters, the Financial Times, PBS Newshour, CBS News, USA Today, Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Vox, The Hill, and the Associated Press.
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How deadly is the coronavirus? Scientists are close to an answer
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a Nature news story about efforts to determine how deadly the coronavirus is.
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Artist-Made Tools Resist Algorithmic Racism and Empower Communities
KQED ran a story about activist art that included work by assistant professor of digital art and new media micha cárdenas and Arts Division grad students Abram Stern and Dorothy Santos.
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Artist Mayumi Hosokura: “For me as a cyborg, to expand myself is really important”
Tokyo Weekender magazine ran a story about the influence of History of Consciousness professor Donna Haraway on Japanese artist Mayumi Hosokura's new book, about what it means to be human, or hybrid, in this technological age.
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Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election
Angela Davis, professor emerita of history of consciousness, spoke with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman about the removal of controversial statues, police abuses, and incarceration.
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How Red Meat Became the Red Pill for the Alt-Right
The Nation mentioned social scientist Julie Guthman's book Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism in a lengthy article about diet, politics, and meat consumption.
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Bringing back sea otters benefits people, too
Ecologist James Estes was quoted in a Smithsonian magazine article about restoring sea otter populations.
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Thousands of scientists worldwide to go on strike for Black lives
Physicist Brittany Kamai was featured in news stories in Nature and the New York Times about the #ShutDownSTEM event she helped organize.
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What's Confusing About Calling Covid-19 Cases ‘Asymptomatic’
Biologist Marm Kilpatrick was featured in news stories in Wired, The Scientist, and Science News about confusion over 'asymptomatic' transmission of the coronavirus.