UCSC in the News

Sociology professor Paul Lubeck appeared on the BBC World Service News Hour discussing the Aug. 26 bombing in Nigeria's capital and the underlying economic and political strife there. Ten days before the bombing, the New York Times quoted Lubeck on the Islamic insurgency that has since claimed responsibility.

Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in a Science magazine article about the future of the James Webb Space Telescope project.

 The Times Higher Education Supplement ran a review of biochemist David Deamer's new book, First Life.

 A Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the work of biologist Bill Sullivan and engineer Joel Kubby on an adaptive optics microscope also ran in the Ventura County Star and Charleston Gazette.