Media Coverage
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Santa Cruz artists ‘resist’ hopelessness at First Friday art show
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about an art exhibition by the collective, "Artists Respond and Resist Together," which featured a conversation between UC Santa Cruz's art historian Jennifer González and sculpturist Laurie Palmer about how to use art as a means to achieve legislative and social change.
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Two troubled women’s lives intersect across the decades in Jaeger’s ‘Boardwalk Summer’
The Mercury News ran a story about UC Santa Cruz literature alumna and historical fiction writer Meredith Jaeger and her new novel, Boardwalk Summer, set in 2007 Santa Cruz and 1940s Hollywood.
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This Morning with Alex Jensen
Ravi Rajan, professor of environmental studies, was interviewed live on the South Korean radio network TBS about his new book, The Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS.
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Girls Who Code encourages STEM, one coding class at a time
Computer science major Macie Cooper was featured in an article about the Girls Who Code program in CNET News, Long Room, F3News, and other media outlets.
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Here's why scientists are coloring birds’ heads with markers
Biologist Bruce Lyon's research on golden-crowned sparrows in the Arboretum was featured in a National Geographic video.
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Bodies keep shrinking on this island, and scientists aren't sure why
Biomolecular engineer Ed Green was featured in widespread coverage of his research on the genomes of a pygmy population in Indonesia, including stories in the New York Times, BBC News, LiveScience, Daily Mail, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Science, Nature, Science News, Cosmos, Haaretz, India Tribune, Eurasia Review, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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Counting critters in the kelp forest
Biologists Umi Hoshijima and Kristy Kroeker were featured on KCAW, Alaska community radio, in a story about their research on kelp forests in Sitka Sound.
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‘Global Greening’ Sounds Good. In the Long Run, It’s Terrible.
The New York Times turned to Elliott Campbell of Environmental Studies to set the record straight in a story about "global greening;" the article followed earlier coverage of Campbell's research, which was embraced by climate-change deniers.
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A breakthrough way to see distant planets
Astronomer Henriette Schwarz was featured in an Atlantic magazine article about a new way to detect extrasolar planets.
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Forgotten giants: Why the time is ripe to revisit Uranus and Neptune
Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a New Scientist article about research on the ice giant planets Neptune and Uranus.
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People are bad at spotting fake news. Can computer programs do better?
Computer scientist Luca de Alfaro was quoted in a Science News article about efforts to use artificial intelligence to identify "fake news."
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Women and men get research grants at equal rates — if women apply in the first place
Biologist Needhi Bhalla was quoted in an article about women scientists and research grants in Science News.