Media Coverage
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UCSC receives $1 million for Dickens Project
The Santa Cruz Sentinel announced a new $1 million Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair to support literature studies and the Dickens Project in the Humanities Division.
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What would really happen if a tsunami hit San Francisco?
Geophysicist Steven Ward is featured in a KQED News story about the possible effects of a tsunami on the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Carry the frustration of injustice in this game about racist police violence
Boing Boing ran a feature story about a game developed by Akira Thompson, a graduate student in the Games & Playable Media program, in which a player takes the role of a poor black American attempting to go to his corner store and return safely home.
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Edges of extinction
Ecologist Barry Sinervo is featured in an article in Bay Nature about his research on climate change impacts on reptile and amphibian populations.
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Toxic algae blooming in warm water from California to Alaska
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in an Associated Press story about the toxic algae bloom on the west coast. The story ran in dozens of news outlets throughout the United States, Canada and other countries, including the Orange County Register, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Salinas Californian, Oregon Herald, CBS News, Huffington Post, Yahoo News, CBC…
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UC Santa Cruz researchers use big data to fight cancer
Genomics researchers David Haussler, Ted Goldstein, and Olena Morozova were quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a new effort to identify alternate therapies for children with cancer that has not responded to standard therapy. The project was also covered on GenomeWeb, PhysOrg and Medical News.
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Solitary Confinement: Punished for Life
Craig Haney, distinguished professor of psychology, and his research on the long-term psychological effects of solitary confinement, are the focus of a New York Times article on the recent attention being paid to the issue. The report resulted in follow-up articles in The Week and Yahoo Finance.
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Retrofitting of historic UCSC barn nears completion
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a nice update on the construction of the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.
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Blue moon, 2nd full moon in July, arrives early Friday
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in a CBC News (Canada) story about the "blue moon" on July 31.
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Earth's magnetic field much older than previously thought
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo is quoted in an ABC Science (Australia) news story about Earth's magnetic field.
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Seals Take Hearing Tests—and Offer Insight Into Arctic Drilling's Impact on Marine Mammals
Biollogists Brandon Southall and Jillian Sills were quoted in a Pacific Standard article about the potential impacts on seals of oil exploration and drilling activities in the Arctic.
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The complicated history of capturing racist violence on film
The Washington Post cited History of Art and Visual Culture Professor Martin Berger's book, Seeing Through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography, in a story about the impact that images of racist violence had on the Civil Rights Movement.