Media Coverage
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Dolled up or working, Barbie crushes girls' career dreams, study says
Psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen's study about how girls' views of their career options are affected by playing with Barbie dolls was widely covered by national and international media. Articles appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Science, the Baltimore Sun, Daily Mail, Pacific Standard, Medical News Today, Consumer Affairs.com, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Washington Times, Hispanic business.com,…
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What We Know — And Don’t Know — About the Sea Star Die-Off
Biologist Pete Raimondi is featured in a story about sea star wasting syndrome on KQED and was interviewed on KQED radio program "Forum."
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UCSC alumnus Ron Yerxa up for 'Best Picture' Academy Award
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a feature story about UCSC alumnus and film producer Ron Yerxa, who was nominated for "Best Picture" in the 2014 Academy Awards for his film Nebraska, and has recently reconnected with UC Santa Cruz after a 30-year interval.
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UC Santa Cruz duo honors Santa Cruz guitar makers
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about a new book by a UCSC art alumna illustrating how such a robust community of master luthiers came to be located in Santa Cruz County. The story was also featured in the San Jose Mercury News.
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Brenda Romero: What game designers can learn from Michelin chefs
Leading game news site Gamasutra ran an exclusive interview with Brenda Romero, program director for the games and playable media master's program.
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Barbie might be a dream killer, new study suggests
UPI online wrote about a paper co-authored by psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen published in the journal Sex Roles.
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Experts at UCSC conference urge rethinking responses to climate change
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered one of the panel discussions at the Climate Science and Policy conference March 1.
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Soquel school district targets underperforming Latino boys
In an article on a program to boost the academic performance of Latino boys the Santa Cruz Sentinel noted the participation of some UCSC undergrads. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/santacruz/ci_25260078
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Students compete, learn at UC Santa Cruz engineering competition
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about the 400 high school and middle school students who came to UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering March 1 for the annual Math Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) competition.
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Strange Signal From Galactic Center Is Looking More and More Like Dark Matter
Physicist Stefano Profumo is quoted in a Wired News story about a signal from the center of our galaxy that may be the first detection of dark matter particles.
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Yosemite bears eating like it's 1915
Research on the diets of Yosemite bears by biologist Jack Hopkins and Earth scientist Paul Koch was widely covered, including stories from the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, NPR (blog), Huffington Post, Live Science, Reuters, UPI, CBS News, Fox News, Yahoo News, Daily Mail, French…
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The Mammoth Cometh
A cover story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about efforts to bring back extinct species features visiting researcher Ben Novak and genomics researchers Beth Shapiro, Ed Green, and David Haussler.