Media Coverage
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Milky Way’s Emerging Behemoth — Our Supermassive Black Hole Will Grow to 25 Times Its Present Size
Astronomer Sandra Faber was quoted in a Daily Galaxy article about the growth of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
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Simmental and bison genomes released
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in an article in Progressive Cattle about the completion of high-quality genomes of bison and Simmental cattle.
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Novel compound similar to psychedelic drug can reverse effects of stress in mice
Biologist Yi Zuo was quoted in coverage of her research on a novel compound for treating stress, including stories in News-Medical Net, Science Daily, Drug Target Review, and other media outlets.
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Biden opens California coast to offshore wind turbines
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in news stories in the San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, and other media outlets about plans for offshore wind turbines in California.
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Scientists Race to Rescue Endangered Black Abalone
Biologists Wendy Bragg and Peter Raimondi were featured in a Good Times story about their efforts to rescue endangered black abalone on the Big Sur coast.
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When DNA Research Doesn’t Benefit All of Us
Professor of Sociology Jenny Reardon, who is the founding director of the Science & Justice Research Center, was interviewed by The Pulse radio show on Philadelphia station WHYY about lessons learned from the last quarter century of efforts to study variation in human genomes.
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Small Businesses Have Surged in Black Communities. Was It the Stimulus?
Economics Professor Rob Fairlie spoke with The New York Times about how unemployment has influenced entrepreneurship trends in the wake of the pandemic.
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‘My dream institution’: UCSC’s new arts dean has been all over the academic map, says this is the magic place
Lookout Santa Cruz featured a story about the appointment of Celine Parreñas Shimizu as new dean of the UCSC Arts Division.
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How Andrew Yang Won Over Orthodox Brooklyn
History professor Nathaniel Deutsch was quoted in the New York Times for a story about the role of Hasidic yeshivas in New York City’s mayoral race.
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No, those strange lights seen over Bay Area aren't UFOs. Here's what experts say is going on
Astronomers Paul Lynam and Raja GuhaThakurta were quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about a chain of Starlink satellites that were visible from the Bay Area.
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AAPI Heritage: Remembering the Watsonville Riots of 1930
Associate Professor of Sociology Steven McKay was interviewed alongside history doctoral candidate Meleia Simon-Reynolds and history undergraduate Nick Nasser for a KSBW story about efforts to preserve the history of Watsonsville's first Filipino immigrants.
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Mysterious fast radio bursts traced to spiral galaxy arms
Astronomer Alexandra Mannings was quoted in coverage of her research on fast radio bursts, including stories from CNN, Space.com, Science News, Cosmos, Universe Today, and other media outlets.