Media Coverage

Geneticists Ben Novak and Beth Shapiro are quoted in an article on the "de-extinction" controversy in Earth Island Journal. The story was reprinted in Salon and EcoWatch.

Scientific American blog editor Bora Zivkovic devoted a column to highlighting the stories in Science Notes, published by students in UCSC's Science Communication Program.

Scientific American covered chemist Rebecca Braslau's patent on a method for detecting poison oak oil on clothes and tools.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young, who was honored with a tribute in the latest issue of the Santa Cruz-based online literary magazine phren-Z.

A new study of Saturn's largest moon Titan led by planetary scientists Doug Hemingway and Francis Nimmo garnered widespread news coverage, including stories in the Los Angeles Times,NPR's Morning Edition, Huffington Post, Christian Science Monitor, UPI, Science, Science News, Discover, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Voice of America, Latinos Post, Discovery News, ABC Science Online, NBCNews.com,…

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a story on The Weather Channel news site about Antartica's Blood Falls.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel's Kirby Scudder interviewed Arts Division dean David Yager about his vision for the arts at UC Santa Cruz.

A Los Angeles Times article noted that emeritus history professor Dilip Basu, founding director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at UC Santa Cruz, will be a guest at screenings of the restorations of films by Satyajit Ray, hosted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Cinematheque.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel Editoral Board lauded UCSC's first online course on the Coursera platform, a 10-week literature and history class on the Holocaust, which drew "an eye-opening 18,342 enrollees from at least 58 countries.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about the Science and Justice Training Project and its work to integrate ethical training into scientific fields.