Media Coverage
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Everyday Heroes: Team helps build COVID-19 testing lab at UCSC
Genomics Institute Executive Director Isabel Bjork and MCD Biology Professor Olena Vaske were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the UCSC Molecular Diagnostic Lab.
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California, Reject Prop 22
The New York Times editorial board cited a study led by Professor Chris Benner that showed workers performing the majority of app-based ride hailing and delivery services in San Francisco are typically working full time. Benner is director of the Institute for Social Transformation and a professor of environmental studies and sociology.
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Science Friday Book Club: Conjuring An Alternate History Of Colonization
Catherine S. Ramirez, a professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, joined NPR's Science Friday to discuss Chicanofuturism as part of a book club series exploring New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color.
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Earthshaking Signature ‘Brawn Songs’ and Movement, Developed over Time, Identify Seals
Biologist Caroline Casey was featured in a Scientific American story about her research on the vocal signaling of male elephant seals.
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Guest Commentary | Community can fight COVID-19 by getting flu vaccine
In a guest opinion piece, Associate Professor Rebecca DuBois urged people to get a flu shot to reduce the burden on the entire medical system, particularly in the midst of COVID-19.
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Podcast series features ‘Stories from the Epicenter’
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about a new documentary podcast series launched by the University Library about the Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County.
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Who infected President Trump? This genetics tool could easily pinpoint the source
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a National Geographic story about how President Trump may have become infected with the coronavirus.
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‘We’re part of the problem.’ Astronomers confront their role in—and vulnerability to—climate change
Astronomer Claire Max was quoted in a Science magazine article about the astronomy community's reckoning with climate change.
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The Carina Nebula seen with and without adaptive optics
Astronomer Claire Max was featured in an article about adaptive optics in Universe Today.
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Blinded by the Light
Biologist Roxanne Beltran was quoted in a Hakai magazine story about bioluminescent animals using flashes of light to evade elephant seals and other predators.
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California Will Keep Burning. But Housing Policy Is Making It Worse
Propublica reporters turned to environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball for a discussion of California housing policy that forces people closer to the edge of wilderness areas for affordable housing and how that impacts the effects of wildfires on property.
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How the Coronavirus Got to Donald Trump
Infectious disease expert Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a Wired news story about President Donald Trump's coronavirus infection.