Media Coverage
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Santa Cruz legal experts talk RBG, gender, and equal rights
The Santa Cruz Good Times published a cover story about an upcoming community event celebrating Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, featuring feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker and alumna Syda Cogliati, Santa Cruz County's newest Superior Court judge.
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No Lone Shooter: How Anti-Semitism Is Winning New Converts on the Internet
KQED featured a story about The Humanities Institute's "Anti-Semitism and the Internet" event held at the Computer Science Museum in Silicon Valley.
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Whales team up in amazing bubble-net hunt
Biologist Ari Friedlaender described how humpback whales use bubbles in their feeding strategies in a National Geographic article, also published on MSN and other media outlets, about how various animals use bubbles.
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Vaccines may help bats fight white nose syndrome
Biologist Winifred Frick was quoted in a Science News article about research on vaccines to combat white nose syndrome, a disease that has been decimating bat populations in North America.
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Helping and Hindering Undergraduate Women’s STEM Motivation: Experiences with STEM Encouragement, STEM-Related Gender Bias, and Sexual Harassment
Psychology Professor Campbell Leaper and Christy Starr, a doctoral candidate in psychology, coauthored a blog post about their research on what helps and hinders undergraduate women's motivation in STEM fields; the post appears on a blog by SAGE Insight, which published their latest paper in the Psychology of Women Quarterly.
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Powerful lasers produce wild new kind of ice thought to exist inside Uranus
Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a story in Gizmodo and other media outlets about a new phase of ice thought to exist in the interiors of Uranus and Neptune.
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San Francisco Has More Billionaires Per Capita Than Anywhere Else on Earth
Chris Benner, professor of sociology and environmental studies, was quoted in a VIPortal story about San Francisco having more billionaires per capita than anywhere on Earth.
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Tracing The Quirky Asian Sidekick Trend In Hollywood
Associate proferssor of film and digital media L.S. Kim was interviewed by Bustle magazine about the new trend in Hollywood these days of having Asian American actors play the role of the quirky sidekick.
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In the Realm of "Ahh"
Psychology Professor Jean Foxtree's work was featured in a Psychology Today article about the ways vocal features, including "filler" words like um and ah, influence communication and comprehension.
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Coral reefs provide flood protection worth $1.8 billion every year – it’s time to protect them
Ocean scientist Michael Beck wrote an article for the Conversation about the value of coral reefs for coastal protection, and it was published in the Chicago Tribune and other media outlets nationwide.
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This image is a 'history book' of the universe
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was featured in coverage of the Hubble Legacy Field compiled from 16 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations, including stories from CNN, Daily Mail, Astronomy magazine, CNET, Long Room, Tech Times, Space Daily, and other media outlets.
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Hawai'i's reefs provide $836 billion worth of coastal flood protection
Ocean scientist Michael Beck was quoted in coverage of his team's research on the value of coral reefs for coastal protection in Hawaii, including stories on ABC affiliate KITV Island News., Honolulu Star Advertiser, Associated Press, Scientific American, Hawaii News Now, and other media outlets.