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Phillip Hammack: Going the distance: contact vs. motivation
The Jerusalem Post published an op-ed by Andrew Pilecki, a UCSC Ph.D. in psychology, and Phillip Hammack, associate professor of psychology, arguing that well-intentioned programs that promote contact to reduce prejudice are, at best, inconsequential, and at worst, harmful. Pilecki is a Fulbright post-doctoral researcher in Herzliya, Israel.
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Scientists and lawmakers foresee grim outlook for California’s ocean fisheries
Ocean scientist Clarissa Anderson was quoted in coverage of a state legislature fisheries committee hearing at which she testified about toxic algae blooms on the West Coast, including stories from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and Capital Public Radio.
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UCSC’s Institute for the Arts & Sciences turns the campus into an enormous exhibit of history and culture
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the Institute of Arts and Sciences's innovative first exhibition project, Collective Museum by the Portland-based artist group Public Doors and Windows, encompassing 50 sites at UC Santa Cruz. The project was also discussed in a Santa Cruz Good Times profile of UCSC's Sesnon Gallery curator Shelby Graham.
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TV to showcase UC Santa Cruz tech creativity
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about coverage by the PBS program "Beyond Geek" of the Hack UCSC 2016 Hackathon. The show is scheduled for broadcast in October.
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Susan Gillman: Remembering Slavery, Again
Literature professor Susan Gillman contributed an extensive essay to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Auma Matters
The Santa Cruz Good Times published a story about a film screening of the award-winning documentary, The Education of Auma Obama, and a Living Writers Series talk with visiting Nigerian filmmaker Branwen Okpako, presented by the UC Santa Cruz Humanities Division.
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Social Practice Degrees Take Art to a Communal Level
A story in the New York Times about a new trend in art and social consciousness featured artists Harrell Fletcher, Molly Sherman, and Nolan Calisch, the artists who created the campuswide Collective Museum project at UC Santa Cruz. The National Endowment for the Arts also published a podcast of an interview with Fletcher, in which…
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People, pumas, mammoths featured in talks at UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a LASER talk presented by the Institute of Arts and Sciences that featured research by four UC Santa Cruz faculty members.
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Artist, Noah Buchanan, Proves that Knowledge is Power with His Immaculate Body of Work
The Huffington Post featured an extensive profile of the work of UC Santa Cruz art lecturer Noah Buchanan.
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Adobe offers new round of grants for data science research
Computer scientist Lise Getoor was quoted in stories about Adobe's Data Science Symposium, including stories from Forbes, BusinessWire, and others.