Media Coverage
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Term-Limit Ruling Is Another Nail in the Coffin of Honduran Democracy
History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to World Politics Review about how a ruling by the Supreme Court of Honduras, throwing out a constitutional ban on the re-election of presidents, is another step in the ongoing, methodical destruction of the rule of law and constitutional order in Honduras.
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Astronomers measure distance to farthest galaxy yet
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in widespread coverage of his team's discovery of the most distant galaxy ever seen, including stories from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, AP, Japan Times, Toronto Sun, CBC, ABC News, CBS News, MSN, Fox News, Huffington Post, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Wired, Yahoo News,…
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Two-hundred years of Cuban coral arrives in Santa Cruz
Marine ecologist Daria Siciliano is featured in a KQED Science story about her team's project studying a four-foot-long core from a Cuban coral reef for clues to environmental change on the reef over the past 200 years.
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Mammoth genomes provide recipe for creating Arctic elephants
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in a Nature news story about mammoth genome sequences.
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Baby starfish offer a glimmer of hope for recovery
Biologist Pete Raimondi was quoted in an update on the sea star wasting disease from the Associated Press that was widely published, including stories from CBS News, ABC News, Vancouver Sun, Monterey Herald, Globe and Mail, Oregon Live, Sci Tech News, Daily Mail, China Post, and many other media outlets.
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Pint-sized DNA sequencer impresses first users
Biomolecular engineer David Deamer was quoted in a Nature story about the MinION portable DNA sequencer.
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Invisible Universe Revealed
Astronomer Sandra Faber is featured in a NOVA program about the Hubble Space Telescope, "Invisible Universe Revealed," broadcast on PBS station nationwide. The Los Gatos Weekly and San Jose Mercury News also ran a profile of Faber and her many contributions to the field of astronomy.
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Robot telescope at Lick Observatory finds distant planets
Astronomers Steve Vogt, Brad Holden, and Sandra Faber were quoted in coverage of new planet discoveries from the Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory, including stories from the San Francisco Chronicle, Astronomy, NPR Blogs, AP, and other media outlets.
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Feds Gone Wild: Why Federal Agents Act Badly
Sociology and legal studies professor Craig Reinarman was quoted by Foreign Policy in an article on scandals involving DEA and Secret Service agents.
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UCSC replacing hundreds of water meters across campus
KION reported on the effort to replace all water meters on campus with meters that report usage in real time.
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The fight to build Earth's most powerful optical telescope
Astronomer Mike Bolte was quoted in a Wired news story about the controversy over plans to build the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii.
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Antarctica's mysterious 'Blood Falls' explained in new study
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in coverage of his team's research on groundwater and microbial ecosystems in Antarctica, including stories in Huffington Post, Nature, Yahoo News, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.