Media Coverage
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Report: San Diego has unique edge to tackle climate change
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a San Diego Union-Tribune story about the ocean impacts of climate change.
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Mentally ill prisoners are dying. Are private health care companies to blame?
Psychology Professor Craig Haney was quoted in a CBS News story about inadequate mental health care in prisons and the rise in prison suicides.
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Startup Sandbox supports emerging bioscience companies
David Deamer and Alexandra Turmon were among the UCSC researchers featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the biotech business incubator Startup Sandbox, which also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, and other media outlets.
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How a Santa Cruz toxicologist helped push through a ban on lead ammunition in California
Environmental toxicologist Myra Finkelstein was interviewed in Chemical & Engineering News about her work on tracing the source of lead poisoning in California condors to lead bullets.
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This fast radio burst shined a light on a galaxy’s mysterious gas halo
Astronomer Xavier Prochaska was quoted in coverage of his research on fast radio bursts, including stories in Science News, CNN, Medium, Forbes, ScienMag, Daily Mail, Daily Heralds, IFL Science, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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NIH Funds New Centers To Expand And Diversify The Human Reference Genome
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was quoted in coverage of the new Human Pangenome Project funded by NIH, including stories in Scienmag, Technology.org, and other media outlets.
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Select Elephant Seal ‘Supermoms’ Produce Most Pups
Biologist Burney Le Boeuf was quoted in a story in Smithsonian about his research on elephant seal 'supermoms'.
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Arctic Ice Is Melting Faster Than Expected. These Scientists Have a Radical Idea to Save It
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a Mother Jones article about a proposed technological approach to slow the melting of Arctic ice sheets.
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These L.A. parents don’t want to assign a gender to their baby, so the government did it for them
Psychology Professor Cam Leaper was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the struggle of parents who are raising their child without a gender identity.
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'Genius' Grant goes to marine scientist who embraces flash mobs and comic books
Alumna Stacy Jupiter, recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship, was profiled on the NPR news site.
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Malcolm Gladwell on the Pitfalls of 'Talking to Strangers'
The Santa Cruz Good Times published a cover story about author Malcolm Gladwell in advance of his appearance at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center presented by UCSC's Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz. The story also ran in Metro Silicon Valley.
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Tiny number of elephant seal supermoms produce most pups
Biologist Burney Le Boeuf was featured in coverage of his research on elephant seals in National Geographic, MSN, and other media outlets.