Media Coverage
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The big meltdown
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a National Geographic magazine article about the effects of climate change in Antarctica.
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Dungeness crab season nears in California, but toxins pose a familiar threat
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about the algal toxins threatening the dungeness crab harvest.
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Santa Cruz County affordable housing solutions explored
Sociology faculty members Steve McKay and Miriam Greenberg, co-directors of the No Place Like Home initiative, were cited in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the recent affordable-housing forum at the Civic Auditorium.
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Silicon Valley's dirty secret: Using a shadow workforce of contract employees to drive profits
A report by Chris Benner, professor of environmental studies and sociology, and Ph.D. student Kyle Neering was cited in a Yahoo Finance article about the "shadow workforce" of contract employees in Silicon Valley.
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Eugenic Thinking Today
Megan Moodie, associate professor of anthropology, published a review of the documentary film "Intelligent Lives" in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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California’s underwater forests are being eaten by the ‘cockroaches of the ocean’
Marine ecologist Mark Carr was quoted in a New York Times article about the devastation of California's kelp forests by purple sea urchins.
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3D-printed graphene scaffold breaks capacitor records
Chemist Yat Li was quoted in coverage of his team's research on supercapacitors, including stories in Inside Science News, IEEE Spectrum, Science Daily, Science Tech News, Scienmag, iConnect, and other media outlets.
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Property-Tax Reform Plan Qualifies for 2020 California Ballot
A report by Chris Benner, professor of environmental studies and sociology, was cited in a Courthouse News Service article about the qualification of a 2020 ballot initiative that would roll back portions of Proposition 13.
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Silicon Valley's Top 10% Are Doing Better Than Ever. Here's Why Everyone Else Is Doing Worse
Fortune magazine covered Chris Benner's report about wealth inequality in Silicon Valley, which found that middle-class workers have seen wages drop as much as 14 percent in the past two decades.
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Epigenetic 'memories' that could pass on a father's life experiences seen in worm sperm
Biologist Susan Strome was quoted in coverage of her lab's research on transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, including stories in Forbes, Daily Mail, UPI, Medical News, Science Daily, Bioengineer, Long Room, and other media outlets.
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‘Today I wear the pants’: The powerful message behind Lady Gaga’s billowy oversize suit
The Washington Post's coverage of Lady Gaga's "big suit" included a quote from the book, The Woman in the Zoot Suit, by Catherine Ramirez, associate professor of Latin American and Latino Studies.
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When houses of prayer become places of shelter
Social Sciences Dean Katharyne Mitchell, a professor of sociology, was quoted in an article in The Economist about religious communities across the United States that are providing sanctuary to immigrants who fear deportation.