Media Coverage
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The hunt for COVID-19 genomes that could worsen pandemic
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News article about efforts to track changes in the coronavirus genome sequence and the spread of different strains of the virus.
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Nature’s 10: ten people who helped shape science in 2020
Genome scientist Karen Miga was featured among the "Ones to watch in 2021" in a Nature article about the top 10 people who helped shape science in 2020.
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UCSC Chancellor Cindy Larive on Housing, Pandemic, and Research
Good Times interviewed Chancellor Cynthia Larive about the challenges the campus overcame in 2020.
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‘First line of defense’: UCSC’s COVID-19 testing lab ready to relocate, ramp up
Genomics Institute Executive Director Isabel Bjork was quoted in stories from Lookout Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the role of UCSC's diagnostic testing lab in meeting the need for coronavirus testing in Santa Cruz County.
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$3.7 million NIH grant supports development of biosensor technology for diagnosing viral diseases
Electrical engineer Ali Yanik was featured in a News-Medical story about his research on biosensor technology for diagnosing viral infections.
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COVID-19 Models Plot Dire Scenarios for California Hospitals
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in an AP news story posted on U.S. News & World Report and ABC News about the projections for COVID-19 impacts on hospitals in California.
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Civil rights activist Angela Davis launches fashion collaboration with LA label
A story in The Guardian reported that UCSC professor emerita Angela Davis is co-launching a “Heroes of Blackness” line of clothing featuring artwork by independent Black artists.
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Using hypoxia adaptations in marine mammals to understand COVID-19
Biologist Terrie Williams was featured in a "Thought Leaders" interview on News-Medical about how looking at the diving physiology that enables marine mammals to withstand low oxygen conditions can improve our understanding of the effects of COVID-19.
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Taking fish out of fish feed can make aquaculture a more sustainable food source
Pallab Sarker, an associate research professor in environmental studies, wrote an article for The Conversation about the recent breakthrough in sustainable aquaculture feed that he and professor Anne Kapuscinski made from their ecological aquaculture lab.
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UCSC botanists assess how much wildfires damaged California’s plants
Brett Hall, Lucy Ferneyhough, and other botanists and student interns at the UCSC Arboretum were featured in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News about their efforts to assess the effects of the wildfires on vegetation in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Female workers could take another pandemic hit: to their retirements
The New York Times cited an article coauthored by economics professor Rob Fairlie that shows how the COVID-19 labor market downturn has disproportionately affected unemployment rates for women, particularly those with school-aged children.
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Experts recommend the FDA approve Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a Science News story about an FDA advisory panel's recommendation to approve the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, and in a follow-up story about the FDA emergency use authorization of the vaccine.