UCSC in the News is a weekly column summarizing prominent media placements UCSC faculty, staff, and students have received.
KSBW TV interviewed seismologist Emily Brodsky about the devastating earthquake in China.
Reporters from KPIX-TV, KZSC Radio, and mongabay.com, a wildlands conservation group, were among those who contacted Chris Wilmers of environmental studies this week to learn more about his new study of mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains (see Currents story).
Social psychologist Elliot Aronson's new book Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) (see Currents story) was featured in the Canadian weekly newsmagazine Maclean's.
Research by chemist Jin Zhang on new materials for solar cells was reported in a news story and mentioned in an editorial in Advanced Materials & Processes.
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a story about Jupiter's icy moon Europa in Science News magazine.
Psychologist Campbell Leaper's new study about sexual harassment and sexism experienced by teen girls was picked up by CBS News online, ScienceDaily, and others (see Currents story).
Economist Ricard Gil's investigation of why movie popcorn costs so much continues to get media coverage, most recently from the magazine Ad Age and National Public Radio affiliate KCRW's entertainment program The Business.
The Santa Cruz Good Times published a cover story on "Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice," a three-day arts conference/festival hosted by UCSC, featuring an interview with Art Department chair Elizabeth Stephens. Metro Santa Cruz also covered the conference (see Currents story).
Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher was quoted in a story in Metro Santa Cruz about the water management problems in the Pajaro Valley.
Both the Houston Business Journal and the Charlotte Business Journal picked up economist Rob Fairlie's latest report on entrepreneurial activity (see Currents story).
Media Highlights provides monthly summaries of "UCSC in the News" columns.
