Media Coverage
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Scientists look at hangers-on amid mass die-off of bats
Biologist Kate Langwig and other UCSC researchers were featured in a widely published AP story about white-nose syndrome in bats that ran in the New York Times, Telegraph (U.K.), and many other media outlets.
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White-nose syndrome comes to the West
Biologist Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in a story in High Country News about the spread of the deadly bat disease white-nose syndrome into western states.
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The Grateful Dead as Business Pioneers
Fortune Magazine quoted UC Santa Cruz's Grateful Dead Archivist Nicholas Meriwether for a story about how the band was a pioneer of common business and marketing strategies.
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Can corporate funding help connect students to data?
Computer scientist Lise Getoor was quoted in a story from eCampusNews about universities partnering with the private sector to fund research and expose students to real-world challenges.
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Emotion, manipulation and the future of game design
Game news site Polygon reviewed How Games Move Us, the new book by computational media professor Katherine Isbister.
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Pluto may have a wandering heart
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a Smithsonian story about proposed explanations for unusual features on Pluto.
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Silicon Valley subcontracting makes income inequality worse, report finds
The Guardian’s (Great Britain) San Francisco technology reporter wrote about Chris Benner and Kyle Neering’s Everett Center’s study of low-wage subcontract workers in Silicon Valley.
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Universities must change the culture on sexual violence, UC Santa Cruz provost says
The Huffington Post published an article about Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway’s statement calling for faculty to go beyond compliance regarding sexual harassment on campus. Galloway’s statement, distributed campus wide, was also published on Medium.
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UCSC emeritus professor Thomas Pettigrew honored for research on racism
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote a nice story about the work of emeritus professor Tom Pettigrew who has been named winner of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, bestowed by American Sociological Association.
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What we know about the people who clean the floors in Silicon Valley
The Washington Post “Wonk Blog" wrote about a report by environmental studies professor Chris Benner, executive director of the Everett Program, about the ethnic disparity between high-tech workers in Silicon Valley and the contract workers who staff corporate campuses as janitors, landscapers, food service workers, and shuttle bus drivers.
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This mysterious ‘hot Jupiter’ is on a wild orbital ride
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in coverage of new research on a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet with an eccentric orbit, including stories in the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Tech Times, CNet, Space Daily, EarthSky, PhysOrg, SlashGear, and other media outlets.
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Drought: Aquifer woes here to stay
Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher and his students were featured in a story about groundwater deficits and the drought that ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and other media outlets.