Geophysicist Steven Ward's research on tsunamis was the subject of stories in New York magazine, the Huffington Post, and the Bay Citizen.
New Scientist and Our Amazing Planet covered a report from graduate student Jake Walter on movement of the Whillans Ice Stream in Antarctica caused by the earthquake in Japan.
Seismologists Thorne Lay and Emily Brodsky were quoted in stories about possible links between major earthquakes in New Scientist, MarketWatch, the Australian, theTimes (South Africa), and New Zealand's Dominion Post and Waikato Times.
Marine ecologist Daniel Costa was featured in a story on Public Radio International's The World, highlighting his research on Antarctica's Weddell seals
Biomolecular engineers David Deamer and Mark Akeson were featured in a story in the Economist magazine about progress toward cheaper, faster genome sequencing using "nanopore sequencing" techniques.
In These Times quoted history professor Dana Frank in an article about WikiLeaks cables revealing U.S government knowledge of the military coup in Honduras.
A story in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and the Monterey County Herald featured biologists Brandon Southall, Colleen Reichmuth and Caroline Casey and their research on elephant seals' vocal communications.
New York’s Rochester Democrat and Chronicle quoted Gail Hershatter, UCSC history professor and vice president of the Association for Asian Studies, for a story about the University of Rochester’s preparations to launch an East Asian studies program.
The Los Angeles Times, LA Stage Times, KPCC, and KUSC interviewed Carolyn Dunn, managing director of UCSC’s American Indian Resource Center, about the premiere of her play, The Frybread Queen by Native Voices at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles.
