Media Coverage
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Almost half threatened vertebrates are on islands: study
Biologist Dena Spatz was quoted in coverage of her research on endangered species on islands, including stories from Yahoo News, PhysOrg, Japan Times, Manila Bulletin, AFP, and other media outlets.
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The high-tech tools that could save blue whales from ship collisions
Biologist Elliott Hazen was quoted in a News Deeply story about efforts to protect blue whales from deadly ship strikes.
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A few Mexican villages protect the world’s gray whales
Biologist Mark Carr was quoted in a KQED Science story about the conservation practices of Mexican fishing villages in Baja California.
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The art of politics and meditation
A talk about the art of politics and meditation by Dean Mathieowetz of politics was covered by Mustang News in San Luis Obispo.
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Reforming solitary confinement at infamous California prison
Psychology Professor Craig Haney, an expert on the psychological impact of solitary confinement, was featured in a 60 Minutes report on California's Pelican Bay Prison.
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MacArthur Genius winner Viet Thanh Nguyen addresses UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story covering a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and new MacArthur "genius" grant winner, Viet Thanh Nguyen, who came to UC Santa Cruz as a guest of the campus's Fall 2017 Living Writers Series.
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UCSC spotlights Korean music in Pac Rim Fest
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about the Pacific Rim Music Festival, a cross-cultural musical collaboration with Korea. Music professor and festival director Hi Kyung Kim was also intereviewed on KQED, and San Francisco Classical Voice noted that Kim will host a public forum in Berkeley with the visiting Korean orchestra’s artistic director.
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Learning from the fight against lead
Ocean scientist Carl Lamborg was quoted in a Bloomberg article about contamination of the global environment with lead and mercury.
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Scientists detect gravitational waves from a new kind of nova, sparking a new era in astronomy
Astronomers Ryan Foley, Charles Kilpatrick, and David Coulter were featured in widespread news coverage of the discovery of a kilonova from the collision of two neutron stars, including stories in the Washington Post, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Atlantic, CBS News, KQED News, CBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Science, Nature, Science News,…
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Did early Easter Islanders sail to South America before Europeans?
Anthropologist Lars Fehren-Schmitz received significant media coverage for his paleogenomic analysis of the remains of early inhabitants of Easter Island, including this write-up in Science magazine.
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Santa Cruz County survey finds 27 percent living three in a room
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is among the news outlets covering the "No Place Like Home" project led by Sociology faculty members Steve McKay and Miriam Greenberg; student researchers surveyed more than 1,700 renters in Santa Cruz County.
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With cancer, it's not necessarily where it starts but how it starts
Cancer genomics experts David Haussler and Josh Stuart were featured in a Los Angeles Times article about new ways of classifying cancers for targeted treatment.