JOURNALISM

Breastcancer.org

• What To Know About Breast Cancer Risk Calculators (07/23/2024)

The San Francisco Chronicle

(contributed on-the-scene reporting and photos)

• Police clear pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Santa Cruz as standoff continues(05/31/2024)
• UC Santa Cruz classes switch to online-only after demonstrators block two main entrances (05/29/2024)

SCIENCE NEWS EXPLORES

• Elusive worm-lizards sport weird, spooky skulls (05/10/2024)
• Swimming in schools lets fish save lots of energy (02/09/2024)

The Mercury News

• Statistics show the U.S. health care system is failing Black babies and their families. A new Oakland clinic wants to change that. (02/03/2024)

Science

• Arctic seals’ intricate nose bones keep them warm in forever winters (12/14/2023)

eos

• Motorized Boats Likely Adding Toxins to Michigan Lakes (07/18/2024)
• The Unfair Share of Shade in California’s Central Valley (12/22/2023)

mongabay

• Scientists unearth secrets of the world’s smallest porcupine species (11/30/2023)

Santa cruz local

• Students protest pesticide proposal in Watsonville (11/01/2024)

National Association of science writers

• Cultivating connections: ScienceWriters2023 plenary emphasizes care in reporting on Indigenous communities

News and observer

• NC’s new abortion law creates new challenges for genetic counselors and patients (09/24/2023)
• Some people never develop COVID symptoms. Scientists may have figured out why (08/04/2023)
• Vibrio 101: What is it and how can you prevent an infection? (07/29/2023)
• Want to help people harmed by North Carolina’s powerful tornado? Here’s how. (07/21/2023)
• PFAS detected in blood of horses and dogs too near DuPont-built factory in eastern NC (07/21/2023)
• Air quality update: What to know in the NC Triangle for Friday (06/28/2023)
• New program aims to reduce the number of suicides across NC. How to get involved (07/15/2023)
• Code Orange air quality alert returns to Triangle. What’s causing it, and what to do (06/28/2023)
• Outdoors, Wolfgang the corpse flower is impressive but not overly offensive to the nose (06/21/2023)
• Poking around in rhinoceros poop may turn up ways to help rhinos reproduce (06/20/2023)

THE GIST

• How do animals perceive time? (12/31/2022)

YOUR LOCAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST

• State of Affairs: June 25 (helped create graphics)
• State of Affairs: May 23 (gathered data and helped with graphics)
• 7 maneras por las que nuestra salud está ligada al planeta
• Race for the next generation of Covid-19 vaccines
• ACIP Cliff Notes: Feb 29 (RSV)
• State of Affairs: Jan 23

NEWS AND OBSERVER

• RDU on the Rise: Rodeos, back-to-school, and intense sun and storms (08/17/2023)

STANFORD MEDICINE NEWS CENTER

• Engineered human heart tissue shows Stanford Medicine researchers the mechanics of tachycardia

SCOPE

• Researchers seek healthy checks and balances for how products are designed
• Feeling lonely? You’re far from alone: Expert advice on how to get reconnected
• A veteran serving veterans: Orthopaedic surgeon reflects on time in military, medicine

BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD

• Study finds how a genetic variant raises diabetes risk through an unexpected mechanism (05/25/2023)
• #WhyIScience Q&A: A process development lead returns to her research roots (04/30/2023)
• #WhyIScience Q&A: A molecular biologist promotes sustainability in scientific spaces (04/26/2023)
• Targeting a unique metabolic pathway might starve pancreatic cancer (04/06/2023)
• #WhyIScience Q&A: A molecular biologist builds genome-editing tools to treat genetic diseases (03/22/2023)
• Several pre-existing RSV lineages powered the 2022 surge (02/22/2023)

EXPLORE

• UF funds second round of research on racial disparities (11/22/2022)
• The race between a quantitative epidemiologist and COVID-19 (10/28/2022)