Media Coverage

Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in a Sky & Telescope article about the discovery of a planet in the Alpha Centauri system, the closest stars to Earth.

The New York Times ran an article about the Antarctic drilling project (called WISSARD) led by glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk and others, who will be looking for signs of microbial life in a lake hidden deep beneath the ice.

Astronomer Ryan Cooke's research on the composition of pristine gas clouds in the early universe was covered by Sky & Telescope magazine.

Coverage of research by astronomer Alis Deason on the mass of the Milky Way galaxy included stories from the Huffington Post, ScienceNow, KTVU-TV, KRXI-TV, MSNBC, CBS News, Yahoo News, Physics Today, Space.com, and Live Science.

Coverage of botanist Kathleen Kay's research on what makes California a hot spot of plant diversity included stories from the Los Angeles Times, KQED radio news, UPI, Bright Surf, and PhysOrg.

Professor of Film and Digital Media B. Ruby Rich was quoted in a New York Times story about how the number of women making films in the top 250 at the box office was the highest this year since 2000.

A symposium honoring physicists Howard Haber and Michael Dine was covered in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and Contra Costa Times.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News ran a story about new findings by UCSC astronomers on how galaxies evolve.

Computer scientist Ethan Miller was quoted in an article about long-term data storage in Scientific American magazine.