Media Coverage
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Local kelp forests are giving way to barrens of sea urchins. Divers want to fight back.
Marine ecologist Mark Carr was quoted in a Monterey County Weekly article about declining kelp forests in the Monterey Bay.
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Teacher Pay Is So Low in Some School Districts That They’re Recruiting Overseas
Lora Bartlett, associate professor of education, was quoted in a New York Times article about school districts that recruit overseas for teachers.
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Humpback whale baby boom near Antarctica
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a New York Times story about his research on humpback whales in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.
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Tick and mosquito infections spreading rapidly, C.D.C. finds
Disease ecologist Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in stories in the New York Times, Wired and other media outlets about the spread of tick- and mosquito-borne diseases.
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Is it anti-Semitic for President Trump to call Chuck Todd ‘sleepy eyes’?
The Washinton Post quoted emeritus history professor Peter Kenez in a story about whether President Trump's new nickname for Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s Meet the Press, is anti-Semitic. The story also ran in The Jewish Daily Forward.
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The true story of Mary Porter Sesnon and Pino Alto
The Good Times of Santa Cruz featured a cover story about the history of the Mary Porter Sesnon family and a new exhibition at UC Santa Cruz's Sesnon Gallery titled "Mary Porter Sesnon and Pino Alto."
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Hot Docs 2018 Women Directors: Meet Irene Lusztig—'Yours in Sisterhood'
Medium’s Women in Hollywood blog featured an interview with film and digital media professor Irene Lusztig about Yours in Sisterhood, her new film based on thousands of letters that were sent to the editor of Ms. Magazine.
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Enzyme that affects aging, cancer decoded
Biochemist Michael Stone was quoted in international coverage of research on the telomerase enzyme, including stories from Agence France Presse, Daily Mail, Yahoo News, Inquirer, and other media outlets.
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Discovery of new material is key step toward more powerful computing
Physicist Arthur Ramirez was quoted in news stories about a new material with potential applications in quantum computing, including stories in PhysOrg, Electronics Weekly, Health Medicine Network, Nanowerk, and other media outlets.
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AI is getting pretty good at studying distant galaxies
Physicist Joel Primack and astronomer David Koo were quoted in widespread coverage of their research using artificial intelligence to analyze images of galaxies, including stories in Gizmodo, Register, Daily News, R&D Magazine, Universe Today, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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Columbine: Psychologist who thought he could prevent next school shooting on Parkland, the NRA, arming teachers
On the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting, Newsweek magazine interviewed Professor Emeritus Elliot Aronson about his research on how to increase cooperation and respect among students in school.
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UC Santa Cruz researchers band peregrine falcon chicks
Wildlife biologists Glenn Stewart and Zeka Glucs banded peregrine falcon chicks in a nest on the PG&E headquarters building in San Francisco, garnering coverage in the San Francisco Examiner, Bay Area TV stations, and other media outlets.