Media Coverage

Alison Galloway, campus provost/executive vice chancellor and a forensic anthropologist, was called upon to comment for a Los Angeles Times article on a squabble over an unearthed packet of mummified remains thought to have belonged to King Henry IV of France.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Monterey County Herald published articles on a grant UCSC received to promote education in sustainable agriculture.

The Los Angeles Times covered the launch of UCSC's comprehensive fundraising campaign. Other stories on the launch and the visit by new UC president Janet Napolitano appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and on KSBW television.

Ancient DNA experts Beth Shapiro and Ed Green contributed to a new study showing that domestic dogs originated from wolves in Europe more than 18,000 years ago, and Shapiro was quoted in stories about the findings in the New York Times and Science News.

Discover magazine ran a story about astrophysicist Mark Krumholz's research on the origins of our sun.

Stories about the UCSC bioinformatics team lead by Artem Sokolov, which won a DREAM breast cancer challenge competition, ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, and Bio-IT World.

Marine biologist Pete Raimondi was featured on CBS Evening News coverage of the sea star wasting syndrome, which is wiping out starfish populations along the west coast, and also in High Country News and Half Moon Bay Review. 

Bioinformatics expert Josh Stuart was quoted in a story in The Scientist about Synapse, an open-source computational platform for genomics research developed by Sage Bionetworks.

Marine scientist Adina Paytan was quoted in a Monterey Herald story about coral reefs and global warming.

Professor of Film and Digtal Media B. Ruby Rich was interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program about the controversial new French film, Blue Is the Warmest Color, which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival and just opened in American cinemas.