Media Coverage
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Tragic Immigrant Deaths Fuel Drive to 'Flip' California GOP Congressional District
Associate Professor of Sociology Veronica Terriquez was quoted in a KQED story about efforts to flip GOP districts in the Central Valley that described Terriquez's Central Valley Freedom Summer project.
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3D printed graphene aerogel enhances supercapacitor ability
Chemist Yat Li was quoted in ongoing coverage of his research on supercapacitors, including stories from R&D Magazine and In Compliance.
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Massive volcano chain discovered near Tasmania
Earth scientist Andrew Fisher was quoted in news stories about the discovery of a chain of undersea volcanoes near Australia, including stories in the New York Daily News, EuroNews, MSN, and other media outlets.
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Chemists develop safe alternatives to phthalates used in plastics
Chemist Rebecca Braslau was quoted in coverage of her research on alternatives to phthalate plasticizers, including stories in PhysOrg, Plastics Today, AZO Materials, Tech Site, Laboratory Equipment, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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Contract lecturers are a growing yet precarious population in higher education
Physics lecturer Stephanie Bailey was quoted in a Physics Today article about the role of non-tenure-track teachers in higher education.
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Coastal Biology building and marine sciences campus by EHDD
Architectural Record ran a story about the new Coastal Biology building.
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Tech Pioneer: Social Media is Destroying Democracy
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a front-page story about tech pioneer Jaron Lanier's appearance at UC Santa Cruz to deliver the 2018 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture in humanities and meet with students from the College Scholars Program. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, The Bakersfield Californian, Omaha World-Herald,…
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'It Serves The Elites Well': Honduran Gov't Fails Returning Migrants as NGOs Step In
Latin American television network Telesur interviewed emerita history professor Dana Frank for a story about Hondurans migrating to Mexico and the United States in order to seek asylum. Frank was also featured on KPFA’s “UpFront” program and on Korean radio about the Honduran caravan heading north.
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How a Santa Cruz County man revived the search for alien life
Good Times ran a profile of astronomer Frank Drake and his work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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Kepler, the little NASA spacecraft that could, no longer can
Astronomer Natalie Batalha was quoted in a New York Times article about NASA's announcement of the end of the Kepler mission.
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How elephant seals help scientists explore the deep sea
Biologist Rachel Holser and other members of Dan Costa's lab were featured in a story about their elephant seal research program on an episode of the video series "Mission Wild" from Great Big Story.
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UC Santa Cruz chancellor to retire at the end of the academic year
The LA Times noted that Chancellor George Blumenthal's longevity at UC "has made him one of the leaders most knowledgeable about the system’s institutional history, politics and culture."