The discovery of pristine gas clouds from the Big Bang by astronomers Xavier Prochaska and Michele Fumagalli received widespread coverage, including stories in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Scientific American, Astronomy, ScienceNow, Space.com, Universe Today, Astronomy Now, Discovery News, Physics World, Popular Mechanics, R&D Magazine, RedOrbit, LiveScience, UPI, Quirks & Quarks (CBC radio, Canada), and KQED radio news.
A study of lunar magnetism by planetary scientists Tina Dwyer and Francis Nimmo garnered widespread coverage, including stories in the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, MSNBC, Science News, New Scientist, Nature, Wired News, Discovery News, Sky & Telescope, Space.com, Astronomy Now, Space Daily, io9, Cosmos, Universe Today, RedOrbit, and LiveScience.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a group of UCSC grads who founded a local company to market an iPad game they had developed as a senior design project.
Biologist Terrie Williams was quoted in coverage of the return to Hawaii of the Hawaiian monk seal that Williams has been studying at Long Marine Lab, including stories from the Associated Press, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and San Jose Mercury News.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a team of UCSC researchers that won an award for their research on cholera, including grad students Kelly Peach and Nicholas Shikuma and staff researcher Walter Bray.
