Media Coverage
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Water clouds tentatively detected just 7 light-years from Earth
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in stories from Science, Discovery News, Gizmodo, and others about the detection of water clouds on a nearby Jupiter-sized object known as a brown dwarf.
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Ancient DNA Could Return Passenger Pigeons to the Sky
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in recent stories about efforts to bring back the passenger pigeon, including articles from Scientific American, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, Daily News, Charlotte Observer, and others.
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Sea stars making a comeback: Researchers study reason for die-off
Biologist Pete Raimondi was quoted in a story about baby sea stars and sea star wasting disease in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, Inside Bay Area, and others.
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Japan hangs on to goal of earthquake prediction
Seismologists Thorne Lay and Emily Brodsky were quoted in a Seattle Times story about earthquake prediction.
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Searching for the sun’s siblings
Astronomer Mark Krumholz was quoted in stories about his research on star clusters in the Daily Mail, Space Ref, Space Daily, ANI, WebIndia, YahooNews, Business Standard, Nanowerk, Science Daily PhysOrg, Red Orbit and other media outlets.
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Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions
Acting Dean of the Arts and History of Art and Visual Culture professor Martin Berger was quoted in the New York Times, as well as The British journal of news and popular culture Spiked, about the photographs coming out of the racially torn suburb of Ferguson and their connections to the images of the civil…
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Cattlemen express concern over mountain lions
Veronica Yovovich, a researcher with the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project, was quoted in a Half Moon Bay Review article on mountain lions killing cattle.
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UCSC alum reaches finals of military hero contest
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about alumna Veronica Lemus, a senior airman in the Air Force National Guard, who is vying to be named American Hero of the Year. Sadly, the newspaper also wrote about alumnus Gregory Mock who died while hiking in the Kings Canyon area.
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Thriving ecosystem of microbes found under Antarctic ice
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about his team's discovery of microbial life in a subglacial lake in Antarctica.
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At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale
Physicist Michael Dine is quoted in an article in Quanta magazine about new ideas in physics about the fundamental properties of nature.
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UCSC professor to Assembly: Treat children seeking refuge humanely
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about History Professor Dana Frank's testimony in Sacramento in favor of a state Assembly resolution calling for humane treatment of the children fleeing from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador and seeking refuge in California.
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UCSC professor searches for new type of cancer drug
Biochemist Seth Rubin's research to develop new cancer drugs was covered in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Medical News, BioMedicine, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.