Media Coverage
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West Coast scientists urge immediate action to combat ocean acidification
Marine ecologist Kristy Kroeker was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about ocean acidification.
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Reich-onomics: Robert Reich’s mission is to save American capitalism
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about Robert Reich’s visit to Santa Cruz sponsored by the Blum Center for Poverty, Social Enterprise and Participatory Governance.
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Scientists look at hangers-on amid mass die-off of bats
Biologist Kate Langwig and other UCSC researchers were featured in a widely published AP story about white-nose syndrome in bats that ran in the New York Times, Telegraph (U.K.), and many other media outlets.
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White-nose syndrome comes to the West
Biologist Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a story in High Country News about the spread of the deadly bat disease white-nose syndrome into western states.
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The Grateful Dead as Business Pioneers
Fortune Magazine quoted UC Santa Cruz's Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas Meriwether for a story about how the band was a pioneer of common business and marketing strategies.
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Can corporate funding help connect students to data?
Computer scientist Lise Getoor was quoted in a story from eCampusNews about universities partnering with the private sector to fund research and expose students to real-world challenges.
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Emotion, manipulation and the future of game design
Game news site Polygon reviewed How Games Move Us, the new book by computational media professor Katherine Isbister.
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Pluto may have a wandering heart
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a Smithsonian story about proposed explanations for unusual features on Pluto.
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Silicon Valley subcontracting makes income inequality worse, report finds
The Guardian’s (Great Britain) San Francisco technology reporter wrote about Chris Benner and Kyle Neering’s Everett Center’s study of low-wage subcontract workers in Silicon Valley.
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Universities must change the culture on sexual violence, UC Santa Cruz provost says
The Huffington Post published an article about Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway’s statement calling for faculty to go beyond compliance regarding sexual harassment on campus. Galloway’s statement, distributed campus wide, was also published on Medium.
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UCSC emeritus professor Thomas Pettigrew honored for research on racism
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote a nice story about the work of emeritus professor Tom Pettigrew who has been named winner of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, bestowed by American Sociological Association.
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What we know about the people who clean the floors in Silicon Valley
The Washington Post “Wonk Blog" wrote about a report by environmental studies professor Chris Benner, executive director of the Everett Program, about the ethnic disparity between high-tech workers in Silicon Valley and the contract workers who staff corporate campuses as janitors, landscapers, food service workers, and shuttle bus drivers.