Media Coverage
-
Inside Science
Is Solitary Confinement A Form Of Torture?
Inside Science, an independent nonprofit news outlet supported by the American Institute of Physics, covered a panel on solitary confinement at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago that included comments by psychology professor Craig Haney. The news service's reports are syndicated to mainstream news organizations, such as NBCNews.com, Fox…
-
New Scientist
Sloshing sea may make Neptune's moon Triton habitable
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a New Scientist article about Neptune's moon Triton.
-
Symmetry
A second chance at sight
Physicist Alan Litke is featured in a Symmetry magazine article about his work using silicon microstrip detectors, developed for particle physics research, to study the neurobiology of vision and retinal prosthesis technology.
-
BBC
Scientists call solitary confinement 'damaging and unnecessary'
The BBC quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in a report on solitary confinement from a session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago. Agence France-Presse also covered the session; its article appeared in Japan Times, Australia's Perth Now, and on News Daily, a website produced by Science Daily.
-
Huffington Post
This Is What Happens When Massive Black Hole Gobbles Up Sun-Like Star
Research on black holes led by astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz was covered by the Huffington Post, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Science Daily, Science Codex, PhysOrg, Supercomputing Online, TG Daily, Zee News, Red Orbit, and more.
-
Scientific American
Robotic Surgery Opens Up
Medical robotics expert Jacob Rosen is featured in a Scientific American article about his group's open-source Raven II robotic surgery system.
-
Quest
Lessons from a Global Garden: Growing More Food with Less
Quest, a science collaboration of six public broadcasters around the country including KQED, produced a report on biointensive farming and its promise for community gardens in underdeveloped nations that featured the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and apprenticeship instructor Christof Bernau.
-
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Forging a new path
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured an article about RAICES Indigenas de Mexico, a club at Watsonville High School for students of indigenes Mexican descent. UCSC sophomore Rocelia Cruz was a founding club member and UCSC doctoral student Elizabeth Gonzalez is a co-advisor.
-
Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC professor testifies at hearing on perils of solitary confinement
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a report about professor Craig Haney's testimony at a Sacramento legislative hearing on solitary confinement.
-
National Geographic
Dancing Animals Help Tell Us Why Music Evolved
Long Marine Lab's beat-keeping sea lion Ronan is back in the news, with stories about animal rhythmic abilities in national and international media, including Slate, National Geographic, Huffington Post, Discovery News, Chicago Tribune, Japan Times, Maclean's (Canada), Yahoo News, Reuters, AFP, EarthSky, Global Post, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Daily Telegraph (Australia), Daily Mail (UK), Zee…
-
San Jose Mercury News
UCSC students design video game aimed at making astrophysics fun
Computer science graduate students Kate Compton and April Grow, and astrophysicist Stan Woosley, were featured in a San Jose Mercury News story about a game called Stellar based on the astrophysics of stars. The story also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, and other newspapers throughout the state.
-
Sacramento Bee
California solitary confinement changes questioned at hearing
The Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, and Merced Sun-Star quoted professor Craig Haney's testimony at a legislative hearing on solitary confinement.