Media Coverage
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Protests light up long Honduran night
The Miami Herald published an op-ed by history professor Dana Frank about the tens of thousands of people in Honduras who over the past few months have lit their torches in protest against the government’s corruption.
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Is it Time to Rethink the Selfie as a Feminist Political Statement?
A paper by History of Art and Visual Culture assistant professor Derek Conrad Murray in the journal Consumption Markets & Culture (Routledge, UK) titled "Notes to Self: The Visual Culture of Selfies in the Age of Social Media," generated stories in Good magazine, Medical Daily, Yahoo News (Germany), Stile (Italy), Bluewin (Switzerland), and HelloGiggles.com.
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UC Santa Cruz awarded $2 million for human genome variation map
Genomics researcher Benedict Paten was quoted in coverage of a major grant from the Keck Foundation for his work on a Human Genome Variation Map, including stories from the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Genome Web.
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UCSC students create new tools to archive and explore computer game culture
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a web-based tool for finding computer games developed by grad students James Ryan and Eric Kaltman, and also quoted professor of computational media Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
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Are there any habitable exoplanets that can hear us?
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in stories from Wired, USA Today and the Associated Press about discoveries of potentially habitable planets.
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Prospecting for genetic gold
Biologist Beth Shapiro was featured in a Science magazine story about her research on ancient DNA recovered from mammoth, bison, horse, and other mammal bones exposed by mining in the Yukon.
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Boldly going
The Good Times Weekly interviewed planetary scientist Francis Nimmo about his work with the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto.
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The Magic of Tidying Up—Digitally
A Wall Street Journal columnist turned to psychology’s Steve Whitaker, professor of human computer interaction, for his expertise in the science of storage and retrieval of digital data.
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UCSC’s specialty crops project will benefit emerging farmers and home gardeners
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a state agriculture department grant that will help apprentices at the UCSC farm create training materials for others in the growing of specialty crops. The articled was linked to from Morning Ag Clips.
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Why is the West Antarctic ice sheet melting?
Earth scientists Andrew Fisher and Slawek Tulaczyk were quoted in coverage of his reserach on geothermal heating in Antarctica, including stories from the Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, Yahoo, UPI, Space Daily, Science Codex, Environmental News Network, Research & Development, International Business Times, and other media outlets.
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UCSC students seek solutions in salt
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a team of undergraduates taking part in the International Genetically Engineered Machines Jamboree in Boston.
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Yuri Milner, Russian entrepreneur, promises $100 million for alien search
Frank Drake, emeritus professor of astronomy, was quoted in stories from the New York Times, Nature, Boston Globe, Tech Times, Orange County Register, and other media outlets about a new project with major funding to advance the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).