Media Coverage
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Motivated Reasoning: A Philosopher On Confirmation Bias
Philosophy professor Jonathan Ellis was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered program about the impact of confirmation bias (reasoning with an agenda) and "alternative facts" on our daily lives.
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Our history shows there’s a dark side to ‘Buy American’
The Washington Post featured an op-ed by history professor Dana Frank about President Trump's promise in his inaugural address "to buy and hire American," noting that this initiative follows a long history of similar campaigns steeped in racism, especially against Asians and Asian Americans. Fortune magazine also quoted Frank about this issue, and cited her…
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California artist Russell Crotty aims for the stars in a new exhibition at SJICA, created in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz and the Lick Observatory.
Art Ltd magazine featured a cover story on Look Back in Time: Russell Crotty and Lick Observatory, the first traveling exhibition of the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS), currently running at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The art journal Squarecylinder also featured an extensive review of the…
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Donors commit $1M to back UCSC Jewish studies
The Santa Cruz Sentinel quoted UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal in an artiicle announcing that over 150 donors have committed nearly $1 million to establish the new Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies.
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How to Crochet a Coral Reef–and Why
Scientific American ran a story about UCSC's Institutute for the Arts and Sciences' participation in the Crochet Coral Reef project through workshops and an exhibition. A story was also featured in onegreenplanet.org.
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Otter populations reach a new high, but great white sharks keep their numbers at bay
Biologist Dan Costa was quoted in an article about sea otter populations in the San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Storms Preview Sea-Rise Damage to California Roads, Cities
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in an Associated Press story about the impacts of sea level rise in California, which ran in media outlets throughout the country and around the world, including ABC News, KRON Bay Area News, CBS News, NBC News, MSN, PhysOrg, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Marin Independent Journal, San Mateo Daily Journal, and…
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Can dark matter vanquish a rival theory?
Cosmologist Joel Primack was quoted in a story in Science about a debate over the influence of dark matter in galaxies.
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Santa Cruz, scientists, Boardwalk battle forces of nature
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in stories about the sandbar at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and East Bay Times.
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Breaking the Silence
UC Santa Cruz Title IX Officer Tracey Tsugawa was interviewed about campus efforts to end sexual violence.
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This photographer remembers the moment he fell in love with wild cats
Mother Nature News ran an interview with nature photographer and UCSC alumnus Sebastian Kennerknecht.
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How did life begin? Dividing droplets could hold the answer
Biomolecular engineer David Deamer was quoted in stories about the origins of life from Wired and Quanta.