Media Coverage
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2015’s States Where Hispanics Are Most Assimilated
Catherine S. Ramírez, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies, was quoted in an “ask the experts” portion of an article about Hispanic assimilation in Wallet Hub, an online site based in Washington, D.C.
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UCSC Foundation honors food activist Alice Waters
The Santa Cruz Sentinel interviewed Alice Waters in advance of the Founders Celebration where she will receive the UC Santa Cruz Foundation medal.
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A Chip-Based System for Detecting Ebola
Coverage of electrical engineer Holger Schmidt's development of chip-based technology for Ebola detection includes stories in Optics & Photonics News, CNET, Yahoo, Gizmodo, Medical News Today, Santa Cruz Tech Beat, Biotechnology News, Nanotech Now, Times of India, and other media outlets.
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Three California universities celebrate 50 years
The Los Angeles Times wrote about the 50th anniversary of UC Santa Cruz (and two other California universities). The article featured the Founders celebration and quoted Chancellor Blumenthal.
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San Francisco Bay Area College Road Trip: UC—Santa Cruz
US News and World Report visits UC Santa Cruz in its college road trip feature in the 2016 edition of the Best Colleges guidebook, calling it a “nature-lover’s dream.”
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'The Roots of Organic Farming on Campus'
New York Times columnist and food advocate Mark Bittman describes his spring visit to the UC Santa Cruz farm in an op-ed column and accompanying video.
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Citizen science atop urban cliffs
Biologist Glenn Stewart is featured in a story from Inside Science about the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Group's work with peregrine falcons
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Exhibit tells the story of UCSC campus design
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about “An Uncommon Place: Shaping the UC Santa Cruz Campus,” an exhibit on campus featuring architectural images and renderings from the university’s earliest years.
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Whale fossil uncovered in Scotts Valley
Paleontologist Matthew Clapham was quoted in stories about a whale fossil found in Scotts Valley from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey Herald, Christian Science Monitor, Inside Bay Area, Tech Times, and other media outlets.
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Fighting Ebola with a palm-sized DNA sequencer
Biomolecular engineer Mark Akeson was quoted in an Atlantic magazine story about the use of nanopore sequencing, a technology pioneered at UCSC, to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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Starfish are still dying, but here's reason for hope
Marine ecologist Pete Raimondi is quoted in an update on sea star wasting disease from National Geographic.
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How the body’s trillions of clocks keep time
Biochemist Carrie Partch is featured in an article about biological clocks in the online magazine Quanta.