Media Coverage

In an article on a program to boost the academic performance of Latino boys the Santa Cruz Sentinel noted the participation of some UCSC undergrads. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/santacruz/ci_25260078

Physicist Stefano Profumo is quoted in a Wired News story about a signal from the center of our galaxy that may be the first detection of dark matter particles.

Research on the diets of Yosemite bears by biologist Jack Hopkins and Earth scientist Paul Koch was widely covered, including stories from the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, NPR (blog), Huffington Post, Live Science, Reuters, UPI, CBS News, Fox News, Yahoo News, Daily Mail, French…

A cover story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about efforts to bring back extinct species features visiting researcher Ben Novak and genomics researchers Beth Shapiro, Ed Green, and David Haussler.

Politico Magazine featured an extensive article by history professor Dana Frank about how, since the 2009 military coup that ousted democratically-elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, the U.S. has continued to support an illegitimate regime laced with drug traffickers, corruption, and widespread human rights abuses.

Marine mammal researchers Jillian Sills and Colleen Reichmuth were quoted in stories about their research on spotted seals, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, ScienceNow, World News, Science Codex, Phys Org, Red Orbit and others.

Animal behavior and marine mammal expert Colleen Reichmuth was quoted in a Huffington Post story about a video of a young boy playing with a sea lion at the National Zoo.

The Daily Beast featured an extensive story and interview with history alumus and up-and-coming filmmaker Cary Fukunaga, who has directed two major movies plus eight episodes so far of the new HBO series "True Detective."

Associate film and digital media professor John Jota Leaños was one of six media artists featured in a KCET story about "Long Live LA," a program that commissioned six artists to create videos about public health issues that are being broadcast hourly on more than 2,000 L.A. Metro buses daily.