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Isha Salian

Isha Salian

Isha is an M.A. journalism student who completed her Stanford undergraduate degree in Communication and English in 2017. A Bay Area native and aspiring tech journalist, she spent last summer as a business reporting intern at the San Francisco Chronicle. During the academic year, Isha works at Worldview Stanford as a production intern on the Raw Data and Generation Anthropocene podcasts. She has also interned at NVIDIA Corp. and Stanford Law School. In her spare time, Isha learns, teaches, and performs the North Indian classical dance form kathak.

Environment, News, Politics, TechnologyMay 4, 2018<June 7, 2018

California tackles air pollution disparities with data, policy efforts

BAY AREA — California is also home to eight of the 10 U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest year-round concentration of particulate matter. In 2018, the Bay Area ranked sixth on the list, above the notoriously polluted Los Angeles-Long Beach area.

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SportsFebruary 2, 2018<February 2, 2018

Super Bowl Viewership by the Numbers: A Lego Visualization

Using Lego figurines, this video illustrates the number of television viewers who watched the Super Bowl from 1967 to 2017.

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Business, TransportationDecember 14, 2017<October 31, 2019

Driverless cars won’t need backup drivers in California next year

SAN FRANCISCO — California’s DMV is pushing through regulations that would allow autonomous vehicle companies to test cars without backup drivers on public roads as early as June 2018.

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Business, NewsNovember 10, 2017<November 18, 2017

San Jose prepares for growth as Google plans downtown campus village

SAN JOSE – A planned Google campus in downtown San Jose has city officials and business advocates anticipating an economic boom – and activists worrying it could further gentrify an area already facing an affordable housing crisis.

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Business, Housing + Development, News, TransportationOctober 23, 2017<October 30, 2017

Facing crowded roads and construction, Cupertino establishes traffic impact fee

CUPERTINO — The City of Cupertino unanimously passed an ordinance Oct. 3 that directs funds to reducing traffic congestion in the area, which has…

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Environment, News, PoliticsJune 7, 2017<June 29, 2017

A year after Measure AA, funding remains a challenge for restoring SF Bay wetlands

Proposed cuts to federal environmental funding will place a higher burden on the state and local government to finance restoration of the Bay Area’s wetlands.

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Environment, News, PoliticsMay 30, 2017<June 5, 2017

What the White House budget proposal means for the environment

The detailed 2018 budget proposal released by The White House last week decreases funding to the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 30 percent — one of the largest requested cuts to a federal agency.

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EnvironmentMarch 14, 2017<March 20, 2017

Fake news plagues scientists, too

UC Davis researcher says public perception of GMOs is impacted by inaccurate science information.

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EducationJune 11, 2015<October 12, 2016

New science and math school fills Silicon Valley demand for better STEM Education

Now at the end of its first academic year, BASIS Independent Silicon Valley is providing a science and math focus for middle and high school students in a region where many parents work in STEM fields.

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Education, Health, NewsMay 26, 2015<June 11, 2015

Palo Alto’s stress reduction efforts receive mixed reviews from students, teachers

Palo Alto’s Board of Education has been rapidly implementing changes to decrease student stress at Gunn High School but is facing widespread discontent from students and teachers who feel left out of the decision process.

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