Alex Russell

Alex Russell 

Department Editor, Self & Society

Alex Russell covers the College's departments, centers and programs in many of the social sciences, including: Cognitive Science, Communication, Economics, History, International Relations, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, the Center for Mind and Brain, the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research and the Global Migration Center.

Since 2012, Russell has communicated UC Davis social sciences research for uptake and impact through news and feature stories, policy briefs, reports, social media campaigns and other forms. He has served as a writer at the Graduate School of Management and led communications for the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research and the Institute for Social Sciences. Immediately prior to joining the College of Letters and Science, he served as communications lead for a $30 million federally funded research program in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences focused on international food security.

He received a B.A. Literature from UC Santa Cruz and a M.A. in English from the UC Davis Graduate Creative Writing Program. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW).

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What Does it Mean to Remember Just About Everything?

  • by Alex Russell
Marilu Henner, the actress perhaps best-known for her role on the classic TV show Taxi, spent the afternoon of February 24 on campus while filming a documentary with Ranganath, a professor of psychology and a leading expert on memory. Henner is one of fewer than 70 people worldwide who have been identified to have highly superior autobiographical memory, or HSAM.
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New Book Charts Evolution’s Role in Romantic Love

  • by Alex Russell
The new book, Bonded by Evolution: The New Science of Love and Connection, by UC Davis psychologist Paul Eastwick, explains what happens when the mist of desirability wears off and compatibility has the chance to chart lasting love and happiness.