Media Coverage
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Columbine: Psychologist who thought he could prevent next school shooting on Parkland, the NRA, arming teachers
On the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting, Newsweek magazine interviewed Professor Emeritus Elliot Aronson about his research on how to increase cooperation and respect among students in school.
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UC Santa Cruz researchers band peregrine falcon chicks
Wildlife biologists Glenn Stewart and Zeka Glucs banded peregrine falcon chicks in a nest on the PG&E headquarters building in San Francisco, garnering coverage in the San Francisco Examiner, Bay Area TV stations, and other media outlets.
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How an irked Northern California postal patron helped crack a global plant smuggling scheme
Botanist Stephen McCabe was quoted in a widely published San Jose Mercury News story about rare succulents being poached from the wild in California and shipped to Asia for sale to collectors. McCabe was also interviewed on NBC Bay Area and KCBS TV News.
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Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller bring ‘Forest’ sounds to UC Santa Cruz
The San Francisco Chronicle featured a review by art critic Charles Desmarais about FOREST (for a thousand years…), a sound installation by Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, presented by the Arts Division’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences in a redwood grove at the UCSC Arboretum and Botanic Garden.
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Helen Mayer Harrison, Leader in Eco-Art Movement, Dies at 90
Arts dean Susan Solt was quoted in a New York Times obituary for Helen Mayer Harrison, professor emerita of digital arts and new media at UC Santa Cruz.
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Sweet potato migrated to Polynesia thousands of years before people did
Anthropologist Lars Fehren-Schmitz was quoted in a Nature article about research that shows the sweet potato migrated to Polynesia thousands of years before people did.
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Genomics Justice League
Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon penned an opinion piece about the ethics and social justice aspects of genomics for Genome magazine.
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Most People In The Caravan Are From Honduras — This Is Why They’re Fleeing Their Country
History professor Dana Frank was quoted in a BuzzFeed story about a caravan of people fleeing Honduras. She was also interviewed about the caravan on KPFA and WBEZ Chicago Public Radio.
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Q&A: UCSC’s Jenny Reardon on Genomic Research
Good Times published a question-and-answer conversation with Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon.
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Do millennials really not know how to cook? With technology, they don’t really have to.
In a story about whether millennials know how to cook, the Washington Post ran a quote about "cognitive offloading" from Psychology Professor Ben Storm that originally appeared in the New York Post.
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Restoring marshes, oyster reefs could save $50 billion
Ocean scientist Michael Beck was quoted in international news coverage of his team's research on nature-based solutions to coastal flooding, including stories in the Daily Mail, The Hill, Yahoo News, Agence France Presse, Science Newsline, TerraMar, and other media outlets.
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Major breakthrough in cancer care as gene map paves way for new treatments
Biomolecular engineer Josh Stuart was quoted coverage of new research on cancer genomics reported by the Pan-Cancer Atlas project, including stories from the Independent, Yahoo News, Medical News Today, Medical Xpress, Science Newsline, Marin Independent Journal, Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, and other media outlets.