Paleoceanographer James Zachos and paleontologist Paul Koch are featured in the October issue of National Geographic magazine in an article about an ancient episode of global warming that holds lessons for understanding climate change today.
The London Sunday Times ran a story about Charles Dickens, quoting literature professor John Jordan, director of the Dickens Project at UCSC, and noting that “The Dickens Universe has been a roaring success, attended by about 250 people from all over the world.”
An article in Science News about the use of Google Earth by researchers includes a section on biologist Adelia Barber's research on bristlecone pines in California's White Mountains.
Research on black holes in distant galaxies by astronomers Jonathan Trump and Sandra Faber was covered by UPI, International Business Times, Asian News International, and Digital Journal.
Biologist Giacomo Bernardi's video of tool use by a fish received widespread coverage, including stories in Newsday, Daily Mail, Popular Science, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, , KSBW TV, WFMY TV, KGO Radio, BBC Radio, KQED News blog, WALO Radio (Puerto Rico), UPI, MSNBC.com, ABC News, Scientific American, Discovery News, LiveScience, Biology News Net, Asian News International, The Epoch Times, Ubergizmo, io9, and Science 2.0.
Physicist Joel Primack was quoted in coverage of the Bolshoi simulation of the evolution of the universe, with stories in the San Francisco Chronicle, Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Antonio Express, Post Chronicle, UPI, Boing Boing, Forbes, MSNBC, Universe Today, R&D Magazine, International Business Times, Information Week, Science Daily, RedOrbit, PhysOrg, HPCWire, Space.com, SpaceRef, TechNewsDaily, and Santa Cruz Patch.
The China Beat ran an interview with history professor Gail Hershatter about her new book, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past, a work based on a decade of oral history interviews Hershatter conducted in rural Shaanxi province.
India West ran a front page story with a headline titled: “Karan Singh Visits Bay Area, Presents $100K Donation to UCSC.”
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories about UCSC’s upcoming Evolutionary/Revolutionary art/science multimedia event at the Flint Center for Cupertino. A story also appeared in the Cupertino News.
