Media Coverage
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Millions Of Women Take A Long Walk With A 40-Pound Water Can
An NPR piece on a study showing women bear the brunt of collecting water across sub-Saharan Africa included quotes from sociology professor Ben Crow whose research includes improving water supply infrastructure in the region.
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First water clouds outside our solar system spotted just 7.2 light years from Earth
Astronomer Andrew Skemer was quoted in coverage of his research on a nearby brown dwarf, the coldest object known outside our solar system, including stories from the Daily Mail, Washington Post, Astronomy Now, Space.com, USA Today, Toronto Telegraph, Huffington Post, AP, NewsBeat Social, UPI, Yahoo News, Gizmodo, Breitbart, Popular Science, Nature World News, Peoples Daily,…
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New clues in search for Planet Nine
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney is quoted in a Science News story about the search for a possible Planet Nine.
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What’s being done to assess blue-green algae’s risk to humans
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela is quoted in an AP story about toxic cyanobacteria in freshwater lakes that ran in the Los Angeles Daily News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, San Bernardino County Sun, and other California newspapers.
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Rebooting the human genome
Genomics expert Benedict Paten is quoted in a Technology Review article about work on a new, more sophisticated human reference genome.
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PG&E’s Diablo Canyon closure plan clears 1st hurdle
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy, in an update on PG&E’s plan to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
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Economist forecasts continued growth for Santa Cruz County
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about UCSC’s entrepreneurship efforts as part of an article on a meeting of the Santa Cruz County Business Council at UCSC.
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UCSC students win AARP video game design competition
Grad students Cong Liu, Pedro Cori, and Alex Formoso were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about their digital game proposal that won an award at the E3 game industry conference.
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Shark jelly is strong proton conductor
Science News ran a story about electrical engineer Marco Rolandi's research on the electrosensory organs of sharks and rays.
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UC Santa Cruz team wins contest about importance of humanities
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about UCSC's Gail Project winning first prize in a national 'Shout Out for the Humanities' contest sponsored by 4Humanities.org, which encouraged undergraduate students across the country to make the case for the importance of the humanities.
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Astronomers gear up for dawn of the mega-telescope
Astronomer Michael Bolte was quoted in an article about the Thirty Meter Telescope that first appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and was reprinted in newspapers across Australia.
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Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 review
The Irish Times published a very favorable review of history professor David Brundage's book, Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998, noting his research is "fascinating and provocative," and that "Brundage challenges us to rethink the history of Irish nationalism and its far-flung supoorters, and to ponder its present and future."