Here’s some stories I wrote for UC Santa Cruz:
Agroecology & The UCSC Farm:
- Exploring the UCSC Farm & Garden’s history through faculty research
- Football, farming, and food security
- also republished in the UC Newsroom
- Advocates for social and food justice
- also republished in the UC Newsroom
- Linking agriculture and art
- In soil we trust: How military veterans learn to become organic farmers at UC Santa Cruz
- Alice Waters visits the UCSC Farm & Garden
- Farm to label: How alumnus helped bring organic labeling policy to the nation
- also republished in the UC Newsroom and in the Santa Cruz Sentinel
Anthropology:
- Anthropologist’s new book explores compassionate care and community in Moscow
- Caffeine culture: Anthropology student traces coffee’s route from farm to cup
- also republished in the UC Newsroom and mentioned in the UC Food Observer
- New book explores myth of secularism in contemporary France
- also republished on in the UC Newsroom
Economics:
- Gaming Wall Street
- New study will put high frequency trading to the test
- How a UC Santa Cruz alum is tackling the student loan problem
- UC Santa Cruz researchers explore the ins and outs of market volatility
- What are the real costs of globalization?
Environmental Studies:
- End of the pipeline
- The big business of climate change
- Campus receives $440,000 grant to study sustainable practices for urban agriculture
- Expect the unexpected is the new climate normal
- After Paris climate deal, what’s next?
Latin American and Latino Studies:
- Tuning in to social justice
- Giving voice to the voiceless
- Why understanding racism needs a feminist analysis
- Events explore traumatic journeys migrants endure on the way to the border
Politics & Legal Studies
- UC Santa Cruz student gets VIP access to vice presidential debate
- Reich delivers stinging indictment of ‘crony’ capitalism
- Music, myth, and community in post-Katrina New Orleans
- What are the real costs of globalization?
Psychology
- Craig Haney to talk at Bipartisan Summit on Criminal Justice Reform about re-imagining American prisons
- Psychology and prisons expert Craig Haney talks about social injustices in U.S. prisons at Annual Faculty Research Lecture
- Initial findings to be released in study of microaggressions on campus
- Study finds that the more you Google, the more likely you are to keep Googling
- Experiencing the 6×9-foot world of solitary confinement
- also republished in the UCSC Newsroom
Sociology:
- Gun safety advocate Shannon Watts to speak at Gabriel Zimmerman Award benefit
- Diversity, inclusivity key to a growing economy
- With marijuana legalization on the ballot, lessons learned from Dutch drug policy
- Community gathers to strengthen public dialogue about Santa Cruz’s housing crises
- How can health equity be ensured in the age of precision medicine?
- Study reveals the invisible workforce serving Silicon Valley’s tech industry
- also republished on Phys.org
- New technology, but familiar problems
- How alumni carry on Gabriel Zimmerman’s legacy of public service
- More than economics: New book explores how equality helps economies grow
- also republished in the UC Newsroom
Social Sciences
- Jan. 18 teach-in highlights activism in the Trump era
- Annual social sciences research event explores politics of change
- Pesticide predicament for California’s strawberry growers
- also republished in the UC Newsroom
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- lead story in Morning Ag Clips
- Original crowd funder honored with Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
- Research Frontiers Evening shows how ‘innovation meets ambition’
Social Sciences Research:
- Research Roundup: Spring 2017
- view in its new digital magazine format here >
- Research Roundup: Winter 2017
- Research Roundup: Fall 2016
- Research Roundup: Spring 2016
- Research Roundup: Winter 2015
- Research Roundup: Fall 2015
PR placements
A small selection of my PR placements can be viewed here >
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