Astronomers Greg Laughlin and Steve Vogt were quoted in a Nature article about the search for planets outside our solar system.
Marine scientist Michael Beck, who led a study documenting the worldwide decline of wild oyster populations, was quoted in the Independent (U.K.), New York Times "Green" blog, Bloomberg News, Agence France Presse, Discovery News, Greenwire, RedOrbit, and Press Trust of India.
Mississippi’s Biloxi Sun Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the St. Paul Pioneer Press ran stories about literature professor Karen Yamashita and her novel I-Hotel.
The San Francisco Chronicle noted that Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s Marco Barricelli is the second American Conservatory Theater core acting company member to have become an artistic director.
Seismologist Susan Schwartz was interviewed on KSBW TV about new earthquake fault zone maps for California.
Boing Boing highlighted a video created by astronomer Daniel Fabrycky depicting orbital motions of planetary systems discovered by the Kepler mission.
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was interviewed and quoted in a story about his galaxy research in the Iranian newspaper Jam-e-Jam.
AOL’s new local online news service, santacruz.patch.com, ran a story about UCSC’s upcoming 2011 Scholarship Benefit Dinner.
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