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How Laid-Off Corporate Workers Are Becoming Free-Thinking Entrepreneurs
Economics Professor Robert Fairlie was quoted in a San Antonio Express-News article about "necessity entrepreneurs"–laid-off workers who go on to launch successful businesses.
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UCSC Professor Calls Effects Of Deportation A Public Health Crisis
Psychology Professor Regina Langhout was featured in a KAZU Radio report about the communitywide effects of U.S. policies regarding deportation and forced separation.
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Star-swallowing black holes reveal secrets in exotic light shows
Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz was featured in a Quanta magazine article about research on tidal disruption events, when a black hole swallows a star.
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A wave of destruction
Geophysicist Steven Ward was featured in a cover story in Risk & Insurance magazine about the potential for a mega-tsunami on the U.S. East Coast.
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William Abraham: All Souls’ first African scholar returns to Oxford
The London Financial Times featured a story about emeritus philosophy professor William Abraham returning to Oxford, where he was honored with the unveiling of his portrait and a conversation about diversity with Edward Mortimer, a senior editor of the London Times and former speech-writer for Kofi Annan.
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Of Many Minds: Why identity politics is so vexing for so much of the left
The Baffler magazine featured an essay about a new book by history of consciousness graduate student Asad Haider about identity politics titled Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump.
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The $25 billion wizarding world of ‘Harry Potter’ by the numbers
Assistant professor of literature Renee Fox was quoted on the Dow Jones site, Moneyish, for a story about the "Harry Potter" franchise's staying power as it approaches its 20th anniversary this September.
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Santa Cruz artists ‘resist’ hopelessness at First Friday art show
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about an art exhibition by the collective, "Artists Respond and Resist Together," which featured a conversation between UC Santa Cruz's art historian Jennifer González and sculpturist Laurie Palmer about how to use art as a means to achieve legislative and social change.
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Two troubled women’s lives intersect across the decades in Jaeger’s ‘Boardwalk Summer’
The Mercury News ran a story about UC Santa Cruz literature alumna and historical fiction writer Meredith Jaeger and her new novel, Boardwalk Summer, set in 2007 Santa Cruz and 1940s Hollywood.
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This Morning with Alex Jensen
Ravi Rajan, professor of environmental studies, was interviewed live on the South Korean radio network TBS about his new book, The Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS.