UCSC in the News

An article in Nature about genome science included quotes from biomolecular engineer David Haussler.

Paleoceanographer James Zachos was quoted in a Science article about ocean acidification.

History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to The Nation magazine, appeared on KPFA and NPR, plus Radio Uno and El Progreso radio in Honduras, and contributed an op-ed to the Lexington-Herald-Reader and The Progressive about the one-year anniversary of the coup in Honduras.

Theater Arts associate professor Patty Gallagher was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times for a story about the revival of Mel Brooks's musical Young Frankenstein at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre.

Research on exoplanet systems by graduate student Kevin Schlaufman was featured in a Wired News story.

Ocean scientist Adina Paytan was quoted in an article in Earth magazine about her work with third-grader Claire Dworsky, who presented her research project at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

A major equipment donation to materials scientist Nobuhiko Kobayashi from Philips Lumileds was covered in Semiconductor Today and AzoMaterials.

Film and Digital Media professor Caetlin Benson-Allott was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the appearance of actor Corey Feldman and the screening of the cult film, The Lost Boys, in Santa Cruz.

The Mid-County Post published a feature story on the upcoming 2010 Shakespeare Santa Cruz summer festival.

The Sentinel and Watsonville Register-Pajaronian wrote feature stories about the Girls in Engineering program at the Baskin School of Engineering. The Sentinel article was reprinted in the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times.

KSBW Channel 8 also covered the final day of the two-week program for seventh- and eighth-grade girls.

A Sentinel correspondent wrote an advance story about the first-ever public showing of specimens in the UCSC Museum of Natural History Collections.