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May
- May 30, 2023, Touch Grass
Paul Piff, Orion - May 29, 2023, Judge finds Contra Costa County DA overcharged Black defendants in watershed racial-bias ruling
Richard McCleary, KTVU - May 26, 2023, Man who spent 33 years in prison is exonerated of attempted murder
National Registry of Exonerations, The Washington Post - May 24, 2023, Eric Robert kidnapped a teen and spent time on death row. Did he abduct Alexis Patterson?
Elizabeth Loftus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, also ran in Yahoo News - May 23, 2023, Snowpack in the West is melting rapidly. Where will all that extra water go?
David Feldman, ABC News, also ran in MSN Weather - May 22, 2023 (Opinion), Perspective: Moving beyond ‘I’m sorry for your loss’
Roxane Cohen Silver, Deseret News - May 22, 2023, Understanding Factor Analysis in Psychology
Jessie Borelli, Verywell Mind, also ran in Yahoo Life - May 20, 2023, I Can’t Keep Up With the Super Wealthy Families in My Area. I’m Worried It’s Going to Destroy My Daughters Socially.
Paul K. Piff, Slate - May 18, 2023, UC regents take groundbreaking step toward hiring immigrant students without legal status
Yamir Aleman (psychological science major), Los Angeles Times - May 18, 2023, L.L. Bean ditched social media for May — here’s how it’s going so far
Paul Piff, Marketing Dive - May 17, 2023 (Opinion – Guest essay), America Has Become Both More and Less Dangerous Since Black Lives Matter
Nancy G. Guerra, The New York Times - May 16, 2023, California inmates honored at apprenticeship graduation ceremony
Susan F. Turner, Center for Evidence-Based Corrections, KTTV - May 15, 2023, Displaced fossil fuel workers struggling as CA shifts to clean energy, study shows
Virginia Parks, KABC - May 13, 2023, Mass killings leave Americans fearful, numb and wondering: Am I next?
Roxane Cohen Silver, The Washington Post - May 10, 2023, Bad cop, tainted cases cited as Illinois again leads nation in exonerations
National Registry of Exonerations, WBBM Newsradio - May 9, 2023 (Audio), Refinery Workers Amidst Fossil Fuel Conversations
Virginia Parks, KUCI - May 8, 2023, Why so many mass killings? Families, experts seek answers
Roxanne Cohen Silver, Associated Press, also ran in ABC News and Newsday - May 7, 2023 (Audio), New study finds that older people are happier than younger ages
Susan Charles, KCBS Radio - May 4, 2023 (Audio), New research out of UC Irvine shows people are generally at their happiest late in life
Susan Charles, KNX - May 4, 2023 (Podcast/Video), Climate warning: Is SoCal prepared for mountain melt-off?
Michael Méndez, Spectrum News 1 - May 4, 2023, Undocumented and Unprotected: How Immigration Status Amplifies Climate Vulnerability
Michael Méndez, Nonprofit Quarterly - May 2, 2023, Are mental health apps helpful or harmful?
Stephen Schueller, The Hill, also ran in AOL News and Yahoo News - May 2, 2023, Criminal justice reforms should not be scapegoated for any and every crime in California
Charis Kubrin, Long Beach Press-Telegram - May 1, 2023 (Audio), UC Irvine report documents experience of displaced fossil fuel workers
Virginia Parks, KNX
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
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