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September

Sept. 25, 2023, Ex-CIA officer accused of drugging, raping women taps celebrity memory experts for defense
Elizabeth Loftus, Fox News, also ran in MSN
Sept. 24, 2023, Can public opinion reduce homelessness in Orange County? Experts say it might
Jon Gould, The Orange County Register
Sept. 21, 2023, ‘I’m a free man’: Glynn Simmons exonerated after 48-year-long murder conviction
National Registry of Exonerations, KFOR
Sept. 20, 2023 (Audio), Well-being improves across young adulthood and into midlife
Susan Charles, KUCI
Sept. 19, 2023 (Audio), KQED Newscast
Michael Méndez, KQED
Sept. 17, 2023, Conversation With Bob Reuter on Humanism and Santa Claus
Elizabeth Loftus, Good Men Project
Sept. 15, 2023, Confronting Loneliness With Tools From Psychological Science
Benji Kaveladze (Ph.D., psychological science), Psychology Today
Sept. 14, 2023, Opinion: Decarceration and Crime Do Not Go Hand in Hand
Charis E. Kubrin, Scientific American
Sept. 13, 2023, No, California Proposition 47 doesn't allow you to steal $950 in store items | Fact check
Charis Kubrin, USA Today
Sept. 11, 2023, Ever Feel So Stressed It Seems Like The World Is Spinning? Why It Happens and 6 Ways To Instantly Feel Calmer
Jessica Borelli, First for Women, also ran in Yahoo Life
Sept. 11, 2023 (Podcast), The Memory Science Disruptor
Elizabeth Loftus, Human Centered – Stanford University
Sept. 7, 2023, Fifty Years Later, the Orphans of Flight 723 Return to the Scene
Roxane Cohen Silver, The New York Times

April

April 27, 2023 (Video), What Happens When A Refinery Closes
Virginia Parks, NBC Bay Area
April 27, 2023, California Today (Newsletter)
Virginia Parks, The New York Times
April 27, 2023, After a California refinery closed, laid-off fossil fuel workers got hit with a ‘gut punch’
Virginia Parks, The Sacramento Bee
April 27, 2023, Report: Laid Off Fossil Fuel Workers Need Support
Virginia Parks and Ian Baran, Futurity
April 26, 2023 (translated), California: After violent weather, a ghost lake reappears and causes flooding
David Feldman, France Info
April 26, 2023, Marijuana reform: What do the experts think?
Emily Owens, Niskanen Center
April 26, 2023, The Green Revolution Will Not Be Painless
Virginia Parks and Ian Baran, The Atlantic, MSN and USA News Hub
April 25, 2023, Land Of Fire And Flood: How The Climate Crisis Is Challenging Our Water Supply
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, LAist
April 25, 2023 (Audio), How Does Body Dysmorphia Affect Young Men & Teens? We Discuss Its Causes, Problems & Solutions
Jessica Borelli, LAist – AirTalk
April 24, 2023, Goal-Focused Emotion-Regulation Therapy (GET) in Young Adult Testicular Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Pilot Study
Institute of Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research, Urology Today
April 21, 2023, How Reliable Is Short-term Memory? Humans Can Generate False Memories Just Seconds After the Event Happens
Elizabeth Loftus, The Science Times
April 20, 2023 (Opinion), ‘Shaken baby syndrome’ might be fiction. Will Kansas retry Army vet for murder anyway?
National Registry of Exonerations, The Kansas City Star
April 20, 2023, The Climate Crisis Is Making Floods Bigger. Is LA Ready?
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation-affiliated, LAist
April 19, 2023, Why Asia’s early heat wave is so alarming
Michael Méndez, Vox
April 17, 2023, Can OC Cling Onto Its Iconic But Threatened Coastal Rail Line?
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Voice of OC
April 17, 2023, ChatGPT and Other AI Tutors: Potential and Pitfalls
CERES, Tech & Learning
April 16, 2023, Golis: As always, the California story returns to water
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, The Press Democrat
April 16, 2023 (Video), Eyewitness Newsmakers: How to harness stormwater and the concerning 100-year flood assessment
Richard Matthew and Nicola Ulibarri, KABC
April 14, 2023, Calif. Court OKs Challenge To 'Spit And Acquit' DNA Collection
William Thompson and Simon Cole, Law360
April 14, 2023, Early heat waves can be the deadliest
Michael Méndez, Vox
April 13, 2023 (Audio), Rap on Trial – Decriminalizing Artistic Expression
Charis Kubrin, Look West: How California is Leading the Nation podcast
April 13, 2023, Tech consultant charged in S.F. murder knew Cash App founder, but motive unclear
George Tita, Los Angeles Times
April 13, 2023, Appeals court revives lawsuit challenging OC district attorney’s DNA collection program
William Thompson and Simon Cole, The Orange County Register
April 13, 2023, Federal officials get up-close look at coastal erosion threats to key rail line
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, The Orange County Register
April 13, 2023, Rep. Levin, Officials Discuss Importance of Funding Rail Solutions
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, San Clemente Times
April 13, 2023, Orange County considers moving part of its coastal train track
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Spectrum News
April 13, 2023 (Video), Metrolink, Amtrak to reopen tracks in San Clemente after 7-month closure
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, KCBS
April 13, 2023 (Video), Leaders warn of coastal erosion as passenger rail services between OC and San Diego resume
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, KABC
April 13, 2023, Songs of injustice: Concert partners with Ohio Innocence Project and features exonerees' testimony
National Registry of Exonerations, WVXU
April 13, 2023, Orange County’s Coastal Train Service is Back; But for How Long?
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Voice of OC
April 12, 2023 (Audio), How to protect your mental health while reflecting on the Boston Marathon bombings
Roxane Cohen-Silver, WBUR
April 10, 2023, Bravo to the OC residents helping abroad and at home in so many ways
Jennifer Friend, The Orange County Register
April 10, 2023, Lawsuit Prompts Changes in Fulbright-Hays Grant Program
Veronica Gonzalez, Inside Higher Ed
April 7, 2023, Despite high profile killing, San Francisco has far fewer homicides than other similarly-sized cities
George Tita, CNN and NBC Palm Springs
April 7, 2023, Opinion: Catastrophic floods and breached levees reveal a problem California too often neglects
Brett Sanders, Richard Matthew, Maura Allaire and Nicola Ulibarri, Los Angeles Times
April 3, 2023, The coming flood: Meet the flood watchers
Brett Sanders, Richard A. Matthew and Nicola Ulibarri, Smart Water Magazine and Phys.org
April 1, 2023, How to Keep Our Compassion When It's Needed Most
E. Alison Holman, Roxane Cohen Silver and Dana Rose Galfin, Psychology Today
April, 2023 (Subscription), Water innovations can quench our thirst – but will people buy into them?
David Feldman, The Environment

March

March 30, 2023, Project Rebound comes of age in a spacious location on CSUF campus
Ginny Oshiro, The Orange County Register
March 30, 2023, Cover Story: Memory Deceives
Elizabeth Loftus, Zeit Magazine
March 27, 2023, They grow America’s strawberries. A vicious flood made them climate migrants
Michael Méndez, The Guardian
March 23, 2023, UCI Law schools join advocacy centers for unions
Virginia Parks and Walter Nicholls, The Daily Journal
March 23, 2023, California's relentless rains affect farmworkers, strawberry prices
Michael Méndez, Yahoo News
March 22, 2023, Justice system failure in US tip of iceberg
National Registry of Exonerations, China Daily
March 21, 2023, New investment in climate action can be a game changer for Latinos
Michael Méndez, The Hill
March 21, 2023, Opinion: What happened in Pajaro isn’t just a ‘natural’ disaster
Michael Méndez, The Mercury News
March 21, 2023, Floods have devastated parts of California. Here’s why they’re so hard to forecast
Brett Sanders, Richard Matthew and Nicola Ulibarri, San Francisco Chronicle
March 20, 2023, Is tap water safe to drink? Here’s what you really need to know.
Maura Allaire, National Geographic
March 17, 2023, California Today - If you read one story, make it this
Ph.D. candidate Veronica Gonzalez, The New York Times
March 17, 2023, The fight for exoneration: Over 29,100 years 'lost' in prison in wrongful convictions, database finds
National Registry of Exonerations, ABC News and msnNow
March 16, 2023 Opinion: Labor Center expansion within the University of California is for the public good
UCI Labor Center, The Orange County Register
March 15, 2023 (Audio) Student Mental Health & Connection with University of California – Irvine’s Stephen Schueller
Stephen Schueller, Outside the Box with Dr. Janeane
March 15, 2023, When It Doesn’t Help to Speak the Language: The Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
Veronica Gonzalez, The New York Times
March 15, 2023, COVID pandemic had 'minimal' effect on mental health, study says. Is that true?
Roxane Cohen Silver, Live Science
March 15, 2023, Pell Grants will return to prison, but for many, college will still be out of reach
Keramet Reiter, USA Today and MSN News
March 14, 2023, Opinion: What happened in Pajaro isn’t just a “natural” disaster
Michael Méndez, Los Angeles Times and Yahoo News
March 14, 2023, These 5 Leaders Are Breaking Down Barriers to Mental & Behavioural Health
Stephen Schueller, Flux Magazine
March 13, 2023 (Audio), Get the Funk Out! With Janeane Bernstein
Jon B. Gould, KUCI
March 13, 2023, St. Francis Dam tour marks 95th anniversary since disaster
Michael Méndez, The Santa Clarita Valley Signal and MSN
March 13, 2023, This is what it looks like when cops lie
National Registry of Exonerations, The Grio and Yahoo News
March 13, 2023, There's A Racial Bias on Police Facebook Pages
Tony Cheng, FiveThirtyEight
March 11, 2023, Oregon bill would ease hurdles facing residential supportive housing, treatment centers
Livable Cities Lab, ABC7
March 10, 2023 (Opinion), No one should share a cell with a rapist, including transgender women
Center for Evidence-Based Corrections, Valerie Jenness, Cheryl L. Maxson (professor emerita), Kristy N. Matsuda (research specialist), and Jennifer Macy Sumner (former Ph.D. student), The Washington Post
KCBS Radio, March 10, 2023 (Audio), How the recent storm system will impact California's drought
David Feldman, KCBS Radio
March 9, 2023, Study: Jails and police rarely track Latinos' racial and ethnic data
Nancy Rodriguez, Axios
March 9, 2023, Orange County trio receive Women of the Year honors in state’s 73rd district
Jennifer Friend, (alumna and trustee), Daily Pilot
March 9, 2023, Growth of AI in mental health raises fears of its ability to run wild
Stephen Schueller, Axios
March 8, 2023 (Video), Had enough of winter weather? Sorry SoCal, atmospheric rivers bringing more rain
Brett Sanders, Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, KABC
March 5, 2023, Too Many Studies on Teen Social Media Use Only Look at White Kids
J. Maya Hernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Social Ecology), Gizmodo and Yahoo News
March 3, 2023, Get Ready — Winter Wonderland Of Snow Heightens Risk Of Bigger Spring Floods (Landslides, Too)
Brett Sanders, Richard Matthew and Nicola Ulibarri, LAist
March 1, 2023, The Women Who Tell MotorTrend's Stories: Monica Gonderman
Monica Gonderman (social ecology and criminology, law and society alumna), MotorTrend
March 1, 2023, Man remains behind bars nearly 20 years after conviction overturned According to the National Registry of Exonerations
National Registry of Exonerations, ABC News

February

Feb. 28, Recent Deadly Storms Left California Farmworkers Reeling
Michael Méndez, Mother Jones
Feb. 24, 2023, Trauma distorts our sense of time and self. A new therapy might help
Alison Holman, Science News
Feb. 23, 2023 (Opinion), Democrats Depend on Black Voters But Do Nothing for Us. Here's How to Fix That | Opinion
Livable Cities Lab, Newsweek
Feb. 23, 2023, ‘Help us fight’: California farmers ask for more aid after deadly storms
Michael Méndez, The Guardian and Yahoo News UK
Feb. 22, 2023, An Interview with David Feldman, the Director of Water UCI
David Feldman, Orange Coast Magazine
Feb. 21, 2023, Conflict brews over governor’s student transfer guarantee plan for ultracompetitive UCLA
Psychological science, Los Angeles Times
Feb. 20, 2023, Research on teen social media use has a racial bias – studies of white kids are widely taken to be universal
J. Maya Hernandez (Ph.D. candidate in social ecology), The Conversation
Feb. 17, 2023, Depression risk rises after a stroke. What that means for John Fetterman.
E. Alison Holman, The Washington Post
Feb. 17, 2023, California to review cases for possible wrongful convictions
National Registry of Exonerations, AP, KTTV and NBC News
Feb. 14, 2023, Park Hye-Jung’s journey: From being an illegal immigrant to becoming honorary captain of NFL
Hye-Jung Park, The Korea Daily
Feb. 12, 2023, Natural disasters, boosted by climate change, displaced millions of people in U.S. in 2022
Michael Méndez, NBC News, MSN and Yahoo News
Feb. 9, 2023, How to offer help when you don’t know what to say
Roxane Cohen Silver, Vox
Feb. 7, 2023 (Video), Experts explain how to deal with trauma after swatting scares
Jessica Borelli, WLNS 6 News
Feb. 7, 2023 (Audio), California Farmworkers Were Already Struggling Before the Half Moon Bay Shooting
Michael Méndez, KQED Forum
Feb. 6, 2023 (Video), The Day with Brent Goff: US, China & the Balloon
Roxane Cohen Silver, Deutsche Welle - The Day – News in Review
Feb. 2, 2023, Extreme Heat Disproportionately Impacts LGBTQIA+ Communities, Say Experts
Michael Méndez, PBS (Peril & Promise)
Feb. 2, 2023 (Audio), Econ 101: Why learn about economic inequality?
Paul Piff, Marketplace
Feb. 2, 2023, Avenal prison honors CALPIA graduates
Susan F. Turner, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations
Feb. 2, 2023, University Of California Irvine’s Online Criminology Master’s Program Ranked Number 1
Jon Gould, India Education Diary
Feb. 1, 2023 (Audio), How government will allocate water levels from Colorado River
David Feldman, KCBS Radio
Feb. 1, 2023, 'That sense of threat is still there': How to protect your mental health after seeing the police video of Tyre Nichols
E. Alison Holman, USA Today

January

Jan. 31, 2023, Back Forty: The case for hazard pay for farmworkers
Mike Méndez, Food and Environment Reporting Network
Jan. 28, 2023, Tyre Nichols news is painful. Here's how to be informed and avoid racial stress.
E. Alison Holman, Mashable
Jan. 26, 2023, “Supporting incarcerated people who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree”
Keramet Reiter and Hector Cervantes (alumnus), Estrella TV Noticias 62
Jan. 26, 2023, UC Irvine women’s soccer leads charge to find stem cell donor as teammate fights cancer
Jenika Davis (criminology, law and society student), Los Angeles Times
Jan. 26, 2023, “Texas prisoners enter week 3 of hunger strike against TDCJ’s solitary confinement practices”
Keramet Reiter, Texas Public Radio
Jan. 25, 2023, These colleges are among the best for providing online degree programs
M.A.S., University Business
Jan. 25, 2023, 8 stunning SoCal sea caves to visit during the winter low tides
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Los Angeles Times
Jan. 24, 2023, See the 2023 U.S. News Ranking for Best Online Programs
M.A.S., U.S. News & World Report
Jan. 24, 2023, U.S. News Announces 2023 Best Online Programs
M.A.S., U.S. News & World Report
Jan. 24, 2023, What It’s Like To: Discuss Mental Health at the White House
Justine Bautista (Ph.D. student), Orange Coast Magazine
Jan. 23, 2023, Successive atmospheric rivers test California’s infrastructure
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, Civil Engineering Source
Jan. 23, 2023, Young Thug, YSL trial underway as lawyers challenge use of rap lyrics in RICO case
Charis Kubrin, Yahoo News (National Reporter)
Jan. 21, 2023, Storm flooding compounds misery for California farms and workers
Michael Méndez, Los Angeles Times
Jan. 20, 2023, Waymakers celebrates 50 years of helping those in crisis with reception
Jon Gould, Daily Pilot
Jan. 20, 2023, If America's Megadrought Continues, the Impact Will Be Catastrophic
David Feldman, Newsweek
Jan. 19, 2023, Unlucky Numbers
William Thompson, Science
Jan. 19, 2023, Anamara Ritt-Olson of UCI Public Health On How We Can Solve The Loneliness Epidemic Among Young People
CERES, Authority Magazine
Jan. 19, 2023, After the Deluge
Richard Matthew and Nicola Ulibarri, Sierra Magazine
Jan. 18, 2023, After California’s deadly storms left towns and farmland flooded, residents are struggling to recover
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, NBC News and MSN
Jan. 18, 2023, Kansas death penalty faces new challenge with ACLU invoking landmark abortion decision
Mona Lynch, The Kansas City Star and Yahoo News
Jan. 18, 2023, Los Angeles County’s Black Residents Are Most at Risk in Major Floods
Nícola Ulibarrí, The New York Times
Jan. 17, 2023, 10 ways to boost your mood in 15 minutes or less when you're having an off day and don't want to do anything
Jessica Borelli, Insider
Jan. 16, 2023 (Video – in Spanish), L.A. Works MLK Day of Service
Michael Méndez, Telemundo 52
Jan. 14, 2023, A mental health tech company ran an AI experiment on real users. Nothing’s stopping apps from conducting more.
Stephen Schueller, NBC News
Jan. 13, 2023, Black rappers call out double standard of using hip-hop lyrics as evidence in rapper Young Thug’s criminal trial
Charis E. Kubrin, NBC News and Yahoo News
Jan. 13, 2023, U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Fallen 33% Since 1991, Here’s Why
Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research, Healthline
Jan. 12, 2023, OC Young Adult Court adds new component to prevent recidivism
Elizabeth Cauffman, The Orange County Register
Jan. 12, 2023, California has been hammered with rain. It may not be enough to reverse its drought
David Feldman, NBC News
Jan. 12, 2023, California, Inundated
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, The New York Times
Jan. 12, 2023, What climate change means for California
David Feldman, The Week and Yahoo News
Jan. 11, 2023, Floods’ Worst Ravages Will Be Visited Upon California’s Poorest
Richard Matthew and Nicola Ulibarri, The American Prospect
Jan. 11, 2023, Los Angeles at Greater Flood Risk Than Government Estimates, Study Shows
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, The Wall Street Journal
Jan. 9, 2023, "You lose sleep" — NFL won't reschedule Buffalo Bills game vs Cincinnati Bengals after Hamlin's collapse
Roxane Cohen Silver, Healthing
Jan. 9, 2023, Can California’s massive rain solve its historic drought?
David Feldman, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2023, LIFTED pilot program gives inmates chance to pursue bachelor's degree at UC Irvine
Keramet Reiter, KABC-TV
Jan. 6, Floods’ Worst Ravages Will Be Visited Upon California’s Poorest
Richard Matthew and Nicola Ulibarri, Capital & Main
Jan. 5, 2023, Solutions – A New Way Forward
Keramet Reiter, Nicole Iturriaga and Patrick Acuña, KABC-7 Eyewitness News
Jan. 4, 2023, This map shows which parts of San Francisco are most at risk of flooding
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, SF Chronicle
Jan. 3, 2023, Year of exonerations: The individuals whose names were cleared in 2022 after being wrongfully convicted
National Registry of Exonerations, Newkirk Center for Science & Society, Fox News and Yahoo News
Jan. 3, 2023, Edmonton police expect in-house gun analysis will provide bang for the buck
Nicholas Scurich, CBC

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