Media Coverage
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MRI patients flush gadolinium into San Francisco Bay
Research led by environmental toxicologist Russ Flegal and ocean scientist Ken Bruland on contamination of San Francisco Bay with gadolinium was covered in Chemical & Engineering News.
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Scientists find evidence for ninth planet in solar system
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in news coverage of the discovery of a possible ninth planet in our solar system, including stories from National Geographic, Science, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Yahoo, New York Post, Daily Mail (U.K.), National (Scotland), and other media outlets. Codiscoverer Konstantin Batygin, a UCSC alum, worked with Laughlin as an undergraduate and…
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To save its salmon, California calls in the fish matchmaker
Geneticist John Carlos Garza was featured in a New York Times story about how salmon are bred at hatcheries. The story ran on the front page of the New York Times Sunday edition.
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Birds are returning to a rodent-free island formerly known as Rat
Biologist Don Croll was featured in an article in Alaska Dispatch News about the return of seabirds to an island in Alaska after eradication of rats.
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Jenny Reardon, sociologist between science and justice
The French daily Le Monde published a profile of Jenny Reardon, professor of sociology and director of the Science and Justice Research Center.
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Marine neurotoxin more widespread than ever before
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was featured in a Newsweek story about the 2015 West Coast toxic algae bloom.
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Obama, Art-ified
A photo essay in Politico Magazine noted that history of art and visual culture assistant professor Derek Conrad Murray was one of the curators, artists, and art historians who helped the magazine identify some of the most unique and interesting pieces of art depicting the 44th president.
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Flooding and erosion increasing threat to coast
Coastal geologist Gary Griggs was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a lecture he gave on sea level rise.
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Racial Identity, and Its Hostilities, Are on the Rise in American Politics
A New York Times columnist in a piece on working class voters referred to research by economics professor and department chair Rob Fairlie.
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Secrets from a prehistoric mummy's gut bacteria
Evolutionary geneticist Richard E. (Ed) Green was quoted in an Atlantic article about new findings from research on Otzi, the frozen mummy of a prehistoric man found in the Alps in 1991.
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Does icy Pluto have a hidden ocean? New Horizons offers new clues
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo is featured in a Smithsonian article about his analysis of data from the New Horizons mission indicating that Pluto may have a subsurface ocean.
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Notes from No Man's Land
The New Indian Express ran an article about Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, the first female Tibetan poet writing in English, who is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Santa Cruz, focusing on Tibetan nationalism and identity.