Media Coverage
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Size And Location Of 2012 Costa Rica Earthquake Anticipated By Scientists
Seismologist Susan Schwartz was quoted in stories about her research on earthquakes in Costa Rica from RedOrbit, LA Weekly, Science Daily, Innovations Report, Nature World News, and others.
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Crafting Peace in South Sudan
Writing in Foreign Policy, Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics, outlines several steps that aid groups and allies of South Sudan can do to help curtail violence and craft a lasting peace for the world's newest country.
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On The Trail Of A Mountain Lion, Hunters Hope To Help
A KQED report on the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project was broadcast on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. The online version includes a video of a mountain lion being captured and fitted with a tracking collar.
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Blazing the Trails of Science – UC Santa Cruz’s top scientific breakthroughs of 2013
The Santa Cruz Good Times highlighted many of UCSC's research accomplishments in a year-end feature.
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Bird Cheaters Target Teams, But Teamwork Beats Cheats
Biologist Bruce Lyon was quoted in a story about research on "brood parasites," birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other species, and cooperative breeding strategies in National Geographic Phenomena.
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25 people who changed games in 2013
Brenda Romero, program director of the games and playable media M.S. program, was featured on Develop's list of the 25 people who changed the games industry in 2013.
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No longer silent: Queer cinema leaves fringe for mainstream
Israel's oldest daily newspaper, Haaretz, published an extensive story on film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich, and how her new book on queer cinema explains how gay and lesbian films moved from the underground into the mainstream, and why the struggle for gay rights is far from over.
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Chinese-American Descendants Uncover Forged Family Histories
Professor emerita of humanities Judy Yung was interviewed for a story on Alaska Public Media about the history of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first, and so far only, U.S. federal law to shut out an immigrant group based on nationality, which was repealed in 1943.
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Have Money, Won’t Travel: Why do investors prefer to put their money to work at home?
Writing in Nautilus magazine, associate professor of economics Thomas Wu explores the geographic choices investors make.
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Want a stranger's half-eaten pizza? Need to rent a tree house? Technology can help
Melanie DuPuis, professor of sociology and associate academic director of the UC Washington Center, was quoted widely in a Yahoo News article on how technology can help distribution within the local food industry.
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All in the Mind: Dance and Cognition
BBC Radio 4 interviewed associate psychology professor Margaret Wilson about dance research she co-authored with theater arts professor Ted Warburton that was recently published in the journal Psychological Science, for a story about the British version of "Dancing with the Stars." Warburton was also featured in a story about their research in Dance Informa Magazine.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists sell Hawaiian monk seal toys to fund research
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about biologist Terrie Williams's project to raise funds for monk seal research by selling monk seal toys. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and others.