UCSC in the News

The New York Times quoted sociology professor Paul Lubeck in an article on a spate of religiously motivated killings in northern Nigeria.

The New York Times also used a BayCitizen article on the shooting of a mountain lion in Berkeley that quoted Chris Wilmers, an assistant professor of environmental studies.

PopSci, the online publication of Popular Science magazine, wrote about research by Winifred Frick, a post doc in environmental studies, on the potential for the extinction in the Northeast of the little brown bat.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News covered a talk by biologist Mike Beck at the Seymour Center on the Gulf oil spill.

Media coverage of astronomer Steven Vogt's discovery of a potentially habitable planet has continued, with recent stories in USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Science News, Science, Wired News, Space.com, Geek.com, Earth & Sky, and MSNBC.com. Vogt has also continued to do radio interviews with reporters from around the world, including most recently Japan and South Africa.