UCSC in the News
- December 04, 2012
UCSC in the News
A story about the Grateful Dead in the New Yorker magazine noted that Nicholas Meriwether is the curator of the Grateful Dead Archive which the band had donated to UC Santa Cruz. An article about the Grateful Dead Archive and Meriwether also appeared in the journal, American Scholar.
- November 20, 2012
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The Los Angeles Times featured a story on the new Sikh and Punjabi Studies program at UC Santa Cruz.
- October 16, 2012
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Chemist Rebecca Braslau's work on a spray to detect the oil from poison oak was featured on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition.
- October 02, 2012
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Seismologist Thorne Lay was interviewed on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and BBC Radio News for stories about the April 2012 Sumatra earthquakes.
- September 25, 2012
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New Scientist magazine ran a story about ocean scientist Jonathan Zehr's discovery of an unusual symbiosis between marine microorganisms, and additional coverage appeared in PhysOrg, ScienceBlog, and BioMedicine.
- September 17, 2012
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Biochemist David Deamer was featured discussing his research on the origins of life in an episode of the "Naked Science" program on the National Geographic Channel.
- September 11, 2012
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Yahoo News wrote about recent grad Alexandra Villegas and her work promoting "real food'' on college campuses.
- August 28, 2012
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The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed piece by history professor Dana Frank titled “Human rights in Honduras: State Department looks the other way.”
- August 14, 2012
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Psychology professor Bruce Bridgeman's sudden acquisition of 3-D vision after watching the movie Hugo was featured in an article by the BBC. Previously, Bridgeman had no depth perception.
- August 07, 2012
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Astronomers Daniel Fabrycky and Douglas Lin were quoted in coverage of the discovery of a planetary system similar to our solar system, including stories from Time, Christian Science Monitor, CBS News, Huffington Post, Mashable, MSNBC, Space.com, Discover, Science Daily, io9, and UPI.
- July 23, 2012
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The San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, Santa Cruz Sentinel and KALW (Bay Area Public Radio News) featured a story about a UCSC film alumnus who has been hired by film director Spike Lee to design media for Mike Tyson’s solo Broadway show.
- July 17, 2012
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Biologist Terrie Williams was a guest on the Diane Rehm Show to discuss her new book on Hawaiian monk seals, The Odyssey of KP2, which was also reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle.
- July 09, 2012
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Media coverage of new findings by ecologists Marm Kilpatrick and Kate Langwig on the impact of white-nose syndrome on bat populations included stories from USA Today, Science Now, Popular Science, Smithsonian, Examiner, PhysOrg, RedOrbit, ScienceBlog, French Tribune, Epoch Times, io9, and KCBS Radio.
- July 03, 2012
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The June 29 public opening of UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive and the launch of the online web site has generated widespread and extensive media coverage, including stories in the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Herald, and many other media outlets.
- June 26, 2012
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Expert testimony by psychology professor Craig Haney at a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on solitary confinement was covered by NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, Kansas City Star, Charlotte Observer, and Miami Herald, and Mother Jones magazine. The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News also carried stories about it.
- June 19, 2012
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Prom Week, a game about social relationships developed by faculty and students at the Center for Games and Playable Media, was featured in coverage of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), including reviews from Wired ("among the most entertaining and innovative things I've yet seen at E3"), IndieGames, and VideoGameInfo, as well as a feature story in Edge magazine about artificial intelligence in games.
- June 12, 2012
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Ocean scientists Jonathan LaRiviere and Christina Ravelo were quoted in coverage of their research on global climate in the Miocene epoch, including stories in Discovery News, Science Daily, Science Codex, Daily Galaxy, Register, Zee News, and InSciences.
- June 05, 2012
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Chemistry professor Pradip Mascharak was featured in coverage of his lab's development of a photoactive compound for fighting infections, including stories from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey County Herald, Drug Discovery & Development, Medical News Today, Bioscience Technology, MedPage Today, Infection Control Today, Science Daily, and PhysOrg.
- May 29, 2012
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Biologists Patrick Robinson and Daniel Costa were quoted in a New York Times story about their research on elephant seals, which also ran in the International Herald Tribune.
- May 22, 2012
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The June issue of National Geographic magazine includes a piece on another study by Daniel Costa, using southern elephant seals to map the seafloor around Antarctica.
- May 15, 2012
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Biomolecular engineers Mark Akeson and David Deamer are featured in a "news focus" story in Science magazine about the development of nanopore sequencing technology.
- May 08, 2012
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The Cancer Genomics Hub established by biomolecular engineer David Haussler and his team as a tool for advancing cancer research received widespread coverage, including stories from Science, Nature, San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley Business Journal and other media outlets.
- May 01, 2012
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The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on the awarding of the inaugural Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship and the Careers with a Conscience panel discussion that followed.
- April 25, 2012
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The Scientific American "Incubator" blog ran a Q&A with Nadia Drake, a recent graduate of the Science Communication Program and astronomy reporter for Science News.
- April 10, 2012
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The New York Times featured a story about a new Web site introduced by the Dickens Project, noting that this year’s annual summer Dickens Universe gathering at UCSC is now sold out for the first time in the event’s history.
- April 02, 2012
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The New York Times Green Blog wrote about research on mercury levels in coastal fog led by environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias.
- March 27, 2012
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Inside Higher Ed published a commentary on the "digital humanities" by computer scientist Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
- March 20, 2012
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The International Herald Tribune quoted history professor Gail Hershatter for a story about the progress of Chinese women in the workplace, despite their lack of economic clout and unequal burden of labor at home.
- March 12, 2012
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Seismologist Thorne Lay was interviewed by Voice of America radio and quoted in a Washington Post article on the one-year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
- March 06, 2012
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Associate of the Chancellor D. Kelly Weisberg, a lawyer, sociologist and professor of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, co-authored an editorial for the Bay Area News Group with Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, asking Congress to reauthorize and reform a domestic violence bill.
- February 28, 2012
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Earth scientist and dean of physical and biological sciences Paul Koch was quoted in a New York Times article about evolutionary changes in mammals during an ancient period of global warming.
- February 22, 2012
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Research by Earth scientist Noah Finnegan was mentioned in a New York Times article about geologists studying a Bolivian volcano's unusual activity.
- February 07, 2012
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Astronomer Steven Vogt was quoted in widespread coverage of the discovery of a potentially habitable planet, including stories in Time, Science News, UPI, NBC Bay Area, MSNBC, Fox News, Astronomy Now, Universe Today, io9, Huffington Post, SlashGear, Global Post, Daily Mail, Register, Economic Times and many other media outlets.
- January 30, 2012
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Astronomer Daniel Fabrycky was quoted in stories about new planet discoveries from the Kepler mission in the Christian Science Monitor, Space.com, MSNBC.com, Fox News, CBS News, Sci-News, Spaceflight Now, PhysOrg, and Skymania News.
- January 23, 2012
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Earth sciences graduate student Ken Mankoff was featured in a Wired News story about scientists adapting the Kinect videogame device to record 3-dimensional scans of glaciers and other geologic features.
- January 17, 2012
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Biologist Patrick Robinson and others in Dan Costa's elephant seal research group were featured in a segment on "The Mysterious Seal Life" on NBC Bay Area News.
- January 05, 2012
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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.
