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SEEN & HEARD
UC SAN DIEGO FACULTY AND ALUMNI

SEEN & HEARD

UC San Diego faculty and alumni experts are often cited in national and international media outlets addressing today ’ s most pressing issues . Read the latest news and more at today . ucsd . edu
THE NEW YORK TIMES
On the future of the COVID-19 virus “ This virus has no incentive to stop adapting and evolving . And seeing how it did that in the past will help us prepare for what it might do in the future .”
— Joel Wertheim , associate professor , Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health , UC San Diego School of Medicine
FAST COMPANY
On the development of the world ’ s first biodegradable shoe “ Formulating to get that bounce and spring to where they always come back to the same size was actually the single most painful part of the process .”
— Stephen Mayfield , professor , School of Biological Sciences
THE NEW YORK TIMES
On climate change “ The real story is the one facing us in the next 30 years . It ’ s the most interesting story , but also the stakes are highest .”
— Kim Stanley Robinson , ’ 74 , PhD ’ 82 , science fiction author of The Ministry for the Future
→ Read more about Robinson on pg . 34
THE GUARDIAN
On the overturn of Roe v . Wade “ What I fear will happen is that it will further create this urban – rural divide where the more moderate and liberal voices in red states will move , or their children will move , because they will not want their rights restricted .”
— Barbara Walter , political scientist , School of Global Policy and Strategy , and author of How Civil Wars Start : And How to Stop Them
HEALTHLINE
On the FDA ban of Juul vaping devices “ All the evidence we ’ re seeing is that we ’ re going to have a lot of disease down the road . Remember , it took 20 years or more to identify that smoking caused lung cancer .”
— John P . Pierce , distinguished professor emeritus , UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
On gun violence “ Trying to identify mentally ill shooters through health screening is like looking for a needle in a haystack . And there are always going to be needles that get through . The only way it ’ s going to work is preventing those ‘ needles ’ from getting AR-15s .”
— Tage Rai , psychologist and assistant professor , Rady School of Management
FAST COMPANY
On remote work “ The genie is never going back in the bottle . Successful workforce management in the post-COVID world requires new tools and new science , in the same way that technological advances require firms to learn and adapt . The organizations that respond to workforce changes by embracing new management practices will hold unique competitive advantages over the coming decades .”
— Op-Ed by Joshua Zivin and Elizabeth Lyons , professors , School of Global Policy and Strategy and co-founders of the human resources company Amplisal
INSIDE HIGHER ED
On gun violence “ If I want to know how many jars of peanut butter are sold in Connecticut last month , I have that at my fingertips . If I want to get how many trucks are sold in Texas last year , it ’ s easy . But if a researcher wants to know how many guns were sold , that ’ s generally not available , and it ’ s almost never been . And so , if we want any form of science-based evidence — not to set policy but to help to inform policy — we need to start understanding and counting how many guns go into circulation .”
— Kenneth C . Wilbur , professor , Rady School of Management
CNN
On so-called “ murder hornets ” “ They are predators , but so are lions and tigers , and we don ’ t call them murder lions .”
— James Nieh , professor , School of Biological Sciences
BUZZFEED
On commuting and public health “ Our land-use policies have created automobile dependency … which basically separates where people live from every place they would like to go . We ’ ve created a system that enforces driving and removes options for walking and biking , meanwhile there are very limited options for public transit — and the difference in health impacts for cars versus active transportation are huge .”
— James Sallis , professor emeritus , UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
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