Media Coverage

A cover story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about efforts to bring back extinct species features visiting researcher Ben Novak and genomics researchers Beth Shapiro, Ed Green, and David Haussler.

Politico Magazine featured an extensive article by history professor Dana Frank about how, since the 2009 military coup that ousted democratically-elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, the U.S. has continued to support an illegitimate regime laced with drug traffickers, corruption, and widespread human rights abuses.

Marine mammal researchers Jillian Sills and Colleen Reichmuth were quoted in stories about their research on spotted seals, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, ScienceNow, World News, Science Codex, Phys Org, Red Orbit and others.

Animal behavior and marine mammal expert Colleen Reichmuth was quoted in a Huffington Post story about a video of a young boy playing with a sea lion at the National Zoo.

The Daily Beast featured an extensive story and interview with history alumus and up-and-coming filmmaker Cary Fukunaga, who has directed two major movies plus eight episodes so far of the new HBO series "True Detective."

Associate film and digital media professor John Jota Leaños was one of six media artists featured in a KCET story about "Long Live LA," a program that commissioned six artists to create videos about public health issues that are being broadcast hourly on more than 2,000 L.A. Metro buses daily.

Biologist Barry Sinervo's research on California desert tortoises was featured in a story from KCET News.

Research on climate change by Earth scientist Lisa Sloan and former graduate student Jacob Sewall was cited in a New York Times story about the connection between climate change and current drought conditions in the western U.S.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article on the Fred Keeley Lecture on Environmental Policy and Keeley's effort to raise money for a Keeley Coastal Scholars program.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote an advance story on an upcoming climate science conference.

Science magazine hosted an online chat about professor Craig Haney's presentation on solitary confinement. Haney's appearance on a panel at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago generated more than a dozen news reports including items on Smithsonian magazine online that was used as the basis for an article in…

The Baskin School of Engineering was #3 on the list of "10 Engineering Schools You Should Know But Don’t" in EE Times.