2011
UCSC in the News
- January 04, 2012
UCSC in the News
Sociology professor Paul Lubeck was interviewed on the PBS Newshour about the Christmas Day bombings in Nigeria and the underlying economic conditions that are spawning Boko Haram, an incipient insurgency there.
- December 20, 2011
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Astrophysicist Stan Woosley was quoted in a Nature story about new supernova discoveries. Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in a separate Nature story about new planet discoveries from the Kepler mission.
- December 14, 2011
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The Los Angeles Times reported that Literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita received an United States Artists (USA) unrestricted fellowship.
- December 06, 2011
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News outlets and wire services around the country wrote about Congress naming a meeting room for alumnus Gabe Zimmerman, who was killed in the shooting that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The Washington Post, Politico, the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Santa Cruz Patch wrote about it along with the Tucson Citizen, The Hill, and others.
- November 23, 2011
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History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to The Nation revealing how new Wikileaks cables show that US-funded troops in Honduras have been collaborating with a known drug trafficker in his private army's war against campesinos in that country.
- November 13, 2011
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The discovery of pristine gas clouds from the Big Bang by astronomers Xavier Prochaska and Michele Fumagalli received widespread coverage, including stories in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, Scientific American, Astronomy, ScienceNow, Space.com, Universe Today, Astronomy Now, Discovery News, and many other media outlets.
- November 08, 2011
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Seismologist Emily Brodsky was quoted in a Nature article about a project to drill into the fault zone of the Tohoku earthquake that caused the devastating tsunami in Japan earlier this year.
- November 01, 2011
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The Chronicle of Higher Education focused on the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture and the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) in a report on the growing field, noting it was the first of its kind in the nation.
- October 25, 2011
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Biologist Marm Kilpatrick's research on West Nile virus was covered by the U.S. News & World Report, UPI, Health Day, Science Daily, RedOrbit, Infection Control Today, Doctors Lounge, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and News-Medical.net.
- October 18, 2011
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Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in an Atlantic magazine story about the Kepler mission and the search for Earth-like planets, and exoplanet research by Laughlin and graduate student Kevin Shlaufman was covered in Science News, Astrobiology, and Space Daily.
- October 10, 2011
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TIME magazine turned to psychology professor Craig Haney for observations about support from families of people released from prison in connection with the Amanda Knox case.
- October 04, 2011
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Paleoceanographer James Zachos and paleontologist Paul Koch are featured in the October issue of National Geographic magazine in an article about an ancient episode of global warming that holds lessons for understanding climate change today.
- September 28, 2011
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- September 19, 2011
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New planet discoveries by the Kepler mission received widespread news coverage, with many stories quoting UCSC astronomers Greg Laughlin, Daniel Fabrycky, or Jonathan Fortney, including coverage in the Washington Post, CNN.com, Space Daily, Science 2.0, Asian News International, International Business Times, PC magazine, and Digital Journal.
- August 30, 2011
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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.
- August 23, 2011
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NPR's All Things Considered covered biomolecular engineer David Haussler's research on vertebrate evolution.
- August 15, 2011
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Research by planetary scientist Erik Asphaug was featured in a Nature news story about the Dawn spacecraft's investigation of the asteroid Vesta.
- August 09, 2011
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International media coverage of planetary scientist Erik Asphaug's theory that a smaller companion moon collided with the moon early in Earth's history included stories from National Public Radio's Morning Edition and Science Friday, BBC Radio, ABC Radio (Australia), Voice of America, AP Radio, Coast to Coast (syndicated AM radio show), and KION TV; Time, New Scientist, Nature, Science, Economist, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune and many other media outlets.
- August 02, 2011
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Julie Guthman, associate professor of community studies, participated in a New York Times feature "Room for Debate" on the subject of "Should You Trust Calorie Counts."
- July 26, 2011
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Astronomer Puragra Guhathakurta was featured in a Science magazine feature story on galaxy evolution.
- July 13, 2011
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Wildlife biologist Glenn Stewart was quoted in coverage of the shooting of two peregrine falcons in Oakland, including stories in the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News.
- June 28, 2011
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Results from the 10-year Tagging of Pacific Predators study by professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Daniel Costa and colleagues attracted worldwide news coverage after their article appeared in the journal Nature.
- June 21, 2011
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Biospace and GenomeWeb Daily News ran stories about biomolecular engineer David Haussler receiving the Weldon Prize from Oxford University.
- June 13, 2011
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Astrophysicist Stan Woosley was quoted in stories about a new class of supernovae in the Los Angeles Times, Science News, and New Scientist.
- June 07, 2011
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Sociology department chair Craig Reinarman's research was cited in War on Drugs: The Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. The report called the war on drugs a failure and received worldwide attention when it was released last week.
- May 31, 2011
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Planetary scientist Erik Asphaug was quoted in a Playboy magazine story about the potential to mine asteroids for valuable resources.
- May 17, 2011
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History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to The Nation about the government’s response to nearly 60,000 Honduran schoolteachers who went on strike to protest the privatization of public schools.
- May 10, 2011
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An episode about elephant seals on KQED's QUEST TV program featured biologists Daniel Costa and Burney Le Boeuf.
- April 25, 2011
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Biologist Patrick Robinson was quoted in a story about humpback whale migrations on NPR's All Things Considered.
- April 12, 2011
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UCSC history alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga (1999) has been receiving media acclaim for his new feature film, Jane Eyre, including articles in USA Today, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the Village Voice, salon.com, and more.
- April 05, 2011
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Gary Griggs, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, was featured in a PBS NewsHour story about the vulnerability of the U.S. West Coast to a tsunami.
- March 29, 2011
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The Associated Press quoted Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer in nuclear policy, in an article about a state Senate hearing on the seismic safety of nuclear power plants.
- March 22, 2011
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Geophysicist Steven Ward's research on tsunamis was the subject of stories in New York magazine and the Huffington Post.
- March 15, 2011
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Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in stories about the massive fish kill in Redondo Beach in the Telegraph (U.K.), AP and the Huffington Post.
- March 08, 2011
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Marine ecologist Mark Carr was interviewed on a PBS NewsHour segment about marine reserves in California that also featured members of Carr's survey team conducting scuba surveys of marine life.
- February 28, 2011
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Environmental studies researcher Winifred Frick's work with radar to track bats continued to attract media attention with articles by the BBC, MSNBC, Discover, Science magazine, and Science News.
- February 15, 2011
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Astronomers Greg Laughlin and Steve Vogt were quoted in a Nature article about the search for planets outside our solar system.
- February 07, 2011
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Latin American and Latino Studies professor Jonathan Fox was quoted in a widely published article about the loss of jobs in Mexico stemming from the importation of cheap corn from the U.S.
- February 01, 2011
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Astronomers Garth Illingworth and Rychard Bouwens were featured in widespread media coverage of their discovery of the most distant galaxy ever seen.
- January 25, 2011
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The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed emerita humanities professor Judy Yung for an article about Asian Americans' political rise after Ed Lee was sworn in as new mayor of San Francisco.
- January 19, 2011
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The New York Times quoted literature lecturer William Nickell for an article about ambivalence toward Tolstoy in Russia.
- January 10, 2011
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Assistant politics professor Mark Massoud published an opinion piece on Sudan in the San Jose Mercury News ... and more.
- January 03, 2011
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A New York Times article on love and how to maintain a happy marriage quoted from two studies on falling in love that were conducted at UCSC in 1989 and 1993 and reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ... and more.
