Media Coverage

  • New York Times "T" logo

    New York Times

    Preventing Civil War in South Sudan: Christian Leaders Should Resume Activism

    Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics and legal studies, was invited to contribute to the New York Times online feature "Room for Debate" on crisis in South Sudan.

  • Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times

    Bright ancient galaxies offer rare glimpse of early universe

    The discovery of four brilliant galaxies, among the earliest and most distant ever seen, by a team lead by UCSC astronomers Garth Illingworth and Pascal Oesch received widespread media coverage, including stories from the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Associated Press (appearing in hundreds of media outlets throughout the country), BBC News,…

  • Mercury News "M" logo

    San Jose Mercury News

    Coyotes developing taste for beach food, study finds

    Research on the changing diets of coyotes in coastal California led by graduate student Rachel Reid and paleoecologist Paul Koch was covered in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and other media.

  • USA Today

    USA Today

    The starfish are dying, and no one knows why

    Marine biologist Pete Raimondi continues to be quoted in news coverage of sea star wasting syndrome, including an article from USA Today that was widely reprinted in newspapers throughout the country.

  • SCS logo

    Santa Cruz Sentinel

    UCSC researcher leads cancer's digital revolution

    The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of bioinformatics expert and cancer researcher David Haussler. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times.

  • Nature logo

    Nature

    A star is born: the updated Human Reference Genome

    A Nature story about the release of a more complete version of the human genome reference sequence cites the work of a UCSC team led by Karen Miga and Jim Kent to produce the centromere sequences.

  • SCS logo

    Santa Cruz Sentinel

    Gamers could help debug military code

    Computer scientists Jim Whitehead and Heather Logas were quoted in stories about their work on an iPad game that helps debug computer code, with coverage from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and Inside Bay Area.

  • Red Orbit

    Red Orbit

    Size And Location Of 2012 Costa Rica Earthquake Anticipated By Scientists

    Seismologist Susan Schwartz was quoted in stories about her research on earthquakes in Costa Rica from RedOrbit, LA Weekly, Science Daily, Innovations Report, Nature World News, and others.

  • Foreign Policy

    Foreign Policy

    Crafting Peace in South Sudan

    Writing in Foreign Policy, Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics, outlines several steps that aid groups and allies of South Sudan can do to help curtail violence and craft a lasting peace for the world's newest country.

  • NPR

    NPR Weekend Edition

    On The Trail Of A Mountain Lion, Hunters Hope To Help

    A KQED report on the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project was broadcast on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.  The online version includes a video of a mountain lion being captured and fitted with a tracking collar.

  • Good Times

    Good Times

    Blazing the Trails of Science – UC Santa Cruz’s top scientific breakthroughs of 2013

    The Santa Cruz Good Times highlighted many of UCSC's research accomplishments in a year-end feature.

  • National Geographic

    National Geographic Phenomena

    Bird Cheaters Target Teams, But Teamwork Beats Cheats

    Biologist Bruce Lyon was quoted in a story about research on "brood parasites," birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other species, and cooperative breeding strategies in National Geographic Phenomena.

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