Media Coverage
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Companies use your data to make money. California thinks you should get paid
CNN Business tapped Chris Benner, professor of sociology and environmental studies, for insight into "data dividends," which Gov. Gavin Newsom mentioned in his State of the State address.
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Months locked in a tiny box — how solitary confinement can erode mental health
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Haney was featured in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's recent coverage of the mental health impacts of solitary confinement.
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Author Micah Perks on 'True Love'
The Santa Cruz Good Times featured a review of literature professor Micah Perks's new book of short stories, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape.
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Can Jewish Customs Be Crowd-Sourced?
The Times of Israel ran a story about The Minhag Project: A Digital Archive of Hasidic Customs, created by history professor Nathaniel Deutsch, noting it “is being developed as a crowd-sourced online research project of the innovative Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at the University of California Santa Cruz."
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Nion McEvoy receives inaugural Di Rosa Award at Napa art center
The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about alumnus and philanthropist Nion McEvoy being honored at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, noting that "as an English major at UC Santa Cruz, McEvoy befriended painters, poets and musicians."
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Artseen: Forest Law
The Brooklyn Rail featured a review of the Forest Law exhibition at UCSC's Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, quoting art professor T.J. Demos, who gave public remarks at the opening.
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Fascism is rising, warns former Secretary of State Albright in Santa Cruz visit
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered a sold-out event with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in conversation with alumna and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Martha Mendoza before a crowd of more than 2,500, presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UCSC. The story also ran in San Jose's Mercury News. The Santa…
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Novel electrocatalyst outperforms platinum in alkaline hydrogen production
Materials scientists Shaowei Chen and Bingzhang Lu were quoted in coverage of their research on novel catalaysts for hydrogen production, including stories from R&D Magazine, Materials Today, Nanowerk, Science Daily, Power Systems Design, AZO Materials, and other media outlets.
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Groundbreaking study uses small chip to immediately detect Zika, stage of infection
Virus detection technology developed by electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was featured in a story from ABC News affiliate KSAT in San Antonio, Texas.
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Former Livermore physicist directs UC astronomical observatories
The Livermore Independent ran a profile of astronomer Claire Max, director of UC Observatories.
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Our galaxy is due to crash into its neighbor—but when?
Astronomer Brant Robertson was quoted in a National Geographic story about predictions of an eventual collision between the Milky Way galaxy and the nearby galaxy Andromeda.
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Black market poachers coming for California’s coastal succulents
Botanist Stephen McCabe was quoted in an article about poachers collecting rare succulents from the wild in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Chico Enterprise Record, and other newspapers.