In the news in 2023

December 31, 2023

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 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

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