Media Coverage
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How driverless cars could empower pedestrians
Several online publications, including The Atlantic’s “City Lab” blog, wrote about environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball’s journal article about pedestrians and self-driving cars. Others include Planet Citizen, the Register in the U.K. and the IEEE Spectrum.
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Ancient cave lion cubs found crushed and frozen in Russia
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in coverage of research on the remains of ancient cave lion cubs found frozen in permafrost in Russia, including stories from LiveScience, CBS News, Fox News, and other media outlets.
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Internet Archive, repository of modern culture, turns 20
Film archivist and UCSC associate professor of film and digital media Rick Prelinger was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about Internet Archive, a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and more, founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle.
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Daniel Wirls: Time to terminate the nuclear triad
The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by politics professor Daniel Wirls calling for the U.S. to eliminate all land-based nuclear missiles, one leg of the outdated nuclear triad.
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UCSC goes bald to back childhood cancer research
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered a Genomics Institute fundraiser for childhood cancer research, featuring researchers Katrina Learned, Teresa Swatloski, David Haussler, Olena Morozova, and others.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists advance understanding of Alzheimer’s disease
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about research on Alzheimer's disease led by biochemist Yevgenij Raskatov.
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High levels of algae toxins in San Francisco Bay shellfish
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in stories about toxins in San Francisco Bay shellfish from UPI, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, Contra Costa Times, Nature World News, Technobahn, Breitbart, and other media outlets.
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Sea stars have difficulty recovering from devastating virus
Biologist Pete Raimondi is quoted in a Eureka Times-Standard article about the impact of sea star wasting syndrome on North Coast sea star populations.
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Coastal wetlands offer millions of dollars worth of hurricane protection
Ocean scientist Michael Beck was quoted in coverage of a report on the effectiveness of coastal wetlands in reducing property damage from storms, including stories from UPI, Insurance Journal, PhysOrg, PreventionWeb, Insurance NewsNet, Canadian Underwriter, eScienceNews, and other outlets.
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Mystery of the massive Andes dome solved: Researchers find 1km high structure
Geologist Noah Finnegan's research on the uplift of the Central Andes was covered by the Daily Mail (U.K.), LiveScience, International Business Times, TerraDaily, PhysOrg, Environment News Service, and other media outlets.
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Social science: Include social equity in California Biohub
Jenny Reardon and Katherine Darling of sociology and the Science and Justice Research Center, writing as members of “Science FARE (Feminist Anti-Racist Equity) Collective,” were among six authors of a letter in the journal Nature calling for the Chan/Zuckerberg Initiative to include social equity in the California Biohub.
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2016's states with the most and least powerful voters
Economics professor Ajay Shenoy was interviewed for a special feature on voters in WalletHub, a Washington, D.C.-based website that offers credit-improvement advice and money-saving tips.