Media Coverage
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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.
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Former astronaut becomes first person to visit both space and the deepest place in the ocean
Alumna Kathy Sullivan was featured in widespread coverage of her descent to the deepest site in the oceans, the first woman to do so, including stories from CNN, KION, MSN, ABC, Business Insider, and other media outlets.
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Ansel Adams, campus photographer, featured in new book on UC Santa Cruz
The San Francisco Chronicle featured an extensive story about a new two-volume, 925-page book published by the University Library, Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Peruvians cry out for oxygen as coronavirus takes its toll
Economist Kristian Lopez Vargas was quoted on CNN in a story about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Peru.
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Elon Musk: An Eccentric Visionary?
Chris Benner, professor of sociology and environmental studies and director of the Institute for Social Transformation, was interviewed by German public television for a story about Elon Musk.
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Viral San Francisco YouTuber, creator of ‘After Skool,’ illustrates bite-sized philosophy
The San Francisco Chronicle featured a profile of arts alumnus Mark Wooding (2011, Art), creator of the “After Skool” YouTube channel which has reached more than one million subscribers.
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Hot Docs 2020 Women Directors: Meet Jennifer Maytorena Taylor – 'For the Love of Rutland'
Women and Hollywood featured an interview with associate professor of film and digital media Jennifer Maytorena Taylor about her new documentary film For the Love of Rutland.
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A ‘Radical’ Plan to Rethink Doctoral Admissions in the Wake of Covid-19
Literature professor Susan Gillman and alumnus Russ Castronovo, (Ph.D. Literature, 1992) co-authored an editorial in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Community Foundation Update
Philanthropy News Digest reported that a dance lecturer and two alumni from UCSC's Arts Division are the winners of Rydell Visual Arts Fellowships for 2020 and 2021 from the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County.
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The black-white economic divide is as wide as it was in 1968
Research by Economics Professor Rob Fairlie was featured in a Washington Post story about the wealth gap between black and white Americans, which is as wide today as it was in 1968.