Media Coverage
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A search for clues to what causes whale strandings
Biologist Terrie Williams was quoted in news coverage of her research on physiological factors involved in mass strandings of dolphins and whales, including stories in the New York Times, BBC News, Daily Mail (U.K.), Yahoo News, International Business Times, Express, Galileo, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists create surfboard foam from shrimp shells
Engineers Marco Rolandi and John Felts were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about their work on a new material derived from shrimp shells for making surfboards.
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Men still get (almost) all of Hollywood's best lines
Film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich was featured in a Wired Magazine (UK) story about a screenplay analysis which shows that, even in films with strong female leads, the number of lines by men far outweighs those by women.
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Real Art Ways' 'Nothing To Hide?' examines surveillance
Edward Shanken, director of the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) program at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed by the Hartford Courant for a story about an exhibition he co-curated in Hartford that uses art to examine the impact of surveillance techniques on privacy.
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The 10 best U.S. schools for pursuing a film degree
A story in USA Today reported that UC Santa Cruz was named one of the country’s best colleges for film majors, ranking #9 in a Top Ten list by College Factual.
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Exclusive: ICE put detained immigrants in solitary confinement for hunger sriking
Psychology Professor Craig Haney, an expert on the psychological effects of solitary confinement, was quoted in a story that appeared in Long Island Tech News.
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New Research Brief Supports Recess for All Elementary School Students
Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, had her work featured in a blog in Education Week, the largest-read education daily in the country.
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Does Recess Need Coaching?
Rebecca London, assistant professor of sociology, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about her new research into the value of recess.
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Interview: Indian Immigration in the Time of Trump
Economics Professor Nirvikar Singh, coauthor of the new book The Other One Percent: Indians in America, was featured in a Foreign Policy interview about immigration during the Trump era.
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Gender reveals: Insanely popular–and also outdated?
Campbell Leaper, a developmental and social psychologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was quoted in a story about gender reveal parties that ran in USA Today and other media outlets.
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Study finds sediment-rich streams are more dynamic
Geologist Allison Pfeiffer was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about her research on West Coast river channels.
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A start date for the bison invasion of North America
Biologist Beth Shapiro was featured in coverage of her research on the evolutionary history of bison in North America, including articles in the New York Times, Calgary Sun, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun, Diario Madrid, Science Daily, PhysOrg, Billings Gazette, and other media outlets.