November Media Mention Highlights
Every day faculty and students from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis are highlighted in the news media, having their research featured and commenting on the most pressing issues facing the world.
Enjoy some of these news media highlights from the past month.
If you have a media mention that you would like included in our media mentions section, please reach out to Greg Watry at gdwatry@ucdavis.edu.
UC Davis study aims to find link between how your cells contribute to anxiety, depression
CBS Sacramento
Drew Fox, associate professor of psychology
Trump vows to use local police to deport migrants. Could he do it?
NPR
Kevin R. Johnson, Distinguished Professor of law, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and professor of Chicana/o Studies
California is about to change fuel standards. That means higher gas prices. But how high?
MSN.com
James Bushnell, professor of economics
How did we get here?
Comstock’s Magazine
Laura Grindstaff, professor and chair of sociology
What rom-coms teach us about real-life relationships: psych study
New York Post
Paul Eastwick, professor of psychology
Most Americans hardly knew Kamala Harris before Biden stepped down. What have they learned?
McClatchy DC
Amber Boydstun, professor and chair of political science
Wildfire board game
KOLO 8 (ABC)
Thomas Maiorana, assistant professor of design
Trump’s economic vision has a lot of flaws. Here’s another.
The New York Times
Christopher Meissner, professor of economics
Are famous people more likely to die at 27, or does dying at 27 make them more famous?
Los Angeles Times
Zackary Okun Dunivin, postdoctoral scholar in sociology
Why is there so much time from election to inauguration of a US president?
MSN.com
Erik Engstrom, professor of political science
California’s most anti-immigrant law passed 30 years ago. Do Latinos care about it today?
The Sacramento Bee
Lorena Marquez, chair and associate professor of Chicano/a studies
Could asthma harm a child’s memory skills?
U.S. News & World Report
Simona Ghetti, professor of psychology
The power and limits of memory with Dr. Charan Ranganath
The Matt Walker Podcast
Charan Ranganath, professor of psychology
UCD prof, film delve into dark world of ‘suicide by proxy’
The Davis Enterprise
Kathy Stuart, associate professor of history
A basic science breakthrough: evidence of a new type of superconductor
Yale University
Valentin Taufour, associate professor of physics and astronomy
How ‘CoComelon’ became a mass media juggernaut for preschoolers
The Los Angeles Times
Drew Cingel, associate professor of communication
Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster standard cosmological model
Phys.org
Lloyd Knox, Michael and Ester Vaida Endowed Chair in Cosmology and Astrophysics
How will a second Trump term play out for Sacramento’s central industries? Experts weigh in
The Sacramento Bee
Katheryn Russ, professor of economics
Are you middle class? Why it’s changing and the impacts?
ABC 10
Derek Stimel, associate professor of teaching economics
Psychedelics (minus the trip) could provide powerful anxiety relief
Vice
David Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics and professor chemistry
Study finds elite colleges have made few gains enrolling low-income students
Forbes
Santiago Pérez , associate professor of economics
Sandra M. Gilbert, co-author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ dies at 87
The New York Times
Sandra Gilbert, professor emerita of English
Why Trump allies say immigration hurts American workers
The New York Times
Giovanni Peri, C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Professor in International Economics
Why do humans have toenails? Because we’re evolutionary ‘weirdos’
Popular Science
Tracy Thomson, research assistant to professor Geerat Vermeij
Scientists think DMT is responsible for life’s most mysterious experiences
DoubleBlind
Cassandra Hatzipantelis, postdoctoral fellow at the UC Davis Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics
Trump’s proposed mass deportations would absolutely cripple California’s economy
FastCompany
Daniel Costa, visiting scholar Global Migration Center
Forget turkey. Here’s how to get a gratitude boost
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Robert Emmons, professor emeritus of psychology
How food assistance during childhood boosts adult earnings and economic outcomes
Devdiscourse
Marianne Bitler, professor and acting chair of economics
UC Davis choral ‘Seasons of Migration’ concert on Dec. 6 at the Mondavi Center
Daily Democrat
Nicolás Dosman, assistant professor of teaching of music and director of choirs
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