Press coverage of Blum Center events and initiatives include:
2021
- California’s aging dams face new perils, 50 years after Sylmar quake crisis (LA Times)
2020
- Hydro-Financial Watershed Modeling for Environmental Impact Bonds (NCCOS)
- New Research Points to Effective Ways to Influence Engagement and Increase Support for Addressing Economic Inequality (NYU)
- Barriers and Opportunities for Beneficial Reuse of Sediment to Support Coastal Resilience (NCCOS)
- What’s next: The future of compassion (UCI News)
- ‘Expect More’: Climate Change Raises Risk of Dam Failures (New York Times)
- UCI faculty create curricula for kids worldwide confined by coronavirus (UCI News)
- School spreads love through Art (UCI Social Ecology)
- Muralist puts love on the wall at UC Irvine (LA Times)
- Researchers find collaborative flood modeling process effective (National Science Foundation)
- UCI, other researchers find collaborative flood modeling process effective (UCI News)
- Beach dynamics (UCI News)
2019
- Commentary: There’s a strong connection between holiday consumerism and modern slavery (LA Times/The Daily Pilot)
- Scientists from UC Campuses Study Floods, Flood Socioeconomics (Spectrum News)
- UC Irvine class teaches students the science of compassion (LA Times/The Daily Pilot)
- Meeting for peace (UCI School of Social Ecology)
- Colombia, aún lejos de hacer las paces con el medioambiente (El Tiempo)
- How to survive a major flood (UCI School of Social Ecology)
2018
- Student-run InSight Magazine explores poverty and inequality in Southern California (LA Times/The Daily Pilot)
- “Insight Magazine” Celebrates Launch (New U)
2017
- Compassion Concert: Perla Batalla In the House of Cohen (New U)
- Irvine-based nonprofit wins UCI pitch competition aimed at tackling poverty (OC Register)
- 2 nonprofits and a game won UCI grants to try to help people in poverty (Daily Pilot)
- In a warming climate, ocean- and land-based floods are a disastrous duo, UCI researchers find (UCI News)
- Over time, nuisance flooding can cost more than extreme, infrequent events (UCI News)