Media Coverage
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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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25 people who changed games in 2013
Brenda Romero, program director of the games and playable media M.S. program, was featured on Develop's list of the 25 people who changed the games industry in 2013.
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No longer silent: Queer cinema leaves fringe for mainstream
Israel's oldest daily newspaper, Haaretz, published an extensive story on film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich, and how her new book on queer cinema explains how gay and lesbian films moved from the underground into the mainstream, and why the struggle for gay rights is far from over.
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Chinese-American Descendants Uncover Forged Family Histories
Professor emerita of humanities Judy Yung was interviewed for a story on Alaska Public Media about the history of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first, and so far only, U.S. federal law to shut out an immigrant group based on nationality, which was repealed in 1943.
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Have Money, Won’t Travel: Why do investors prefer to put their money to work at home?
Writing in Nautilus magazine, associate professor of economics Thomas Wu explores the geographic choices investors make.
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Want a stranger's half-eaten pizza? Need to rent a tree house? Technology can help
Melanie DuPuis, professor of sociology and associate academic director of the UC Washington Center, was quoted widely in a Yahoo News article on how technology can help distribution within the local food industry.
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All in the Mind: Dance and Cognition
BBC Radio 4 interviewed associate psychology professor Margaret Wilson about dance research she co-authored with theater arts professor Ted Warburton that was recently published in the journal Psychological Science, for a story about the British version of "Dancing with the Stars." Warburton was also featured in a story about their research in Dance Informa Magazine.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists sell Hawaiian monk seal toys to fund research
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about biologist Terrie Williams's project to raise funds for monk seal research by selling monk seal toys. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and others.
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Climate Change Tweaks Pacific Ocean Chemistry
Ocean scientist Matt McCarthy's research using deep-sea corals to study the Pacific Ocean ecosystem received widespread coverage, including stories from Scientific American, Climate Wire, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Discovery News, ABC Science (Australia), Research and Development, Nature World News, Life Sciences World, Marine Technology Society, Innovations Report, Science Daily,…
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Google, Amazon making sci-fi real with robots, drones
Robotics expert Jacob Rosen was quoted in a story from the German Press Agency (DPA) Business Line about Google's recent acquisition of robotics companies.
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Lick Observatory in Trouble as Austerity Starts to Bite
A news story in Science about the effects of budget cuts on Lick Observatory includes quotes from astronomers Sandra Faber, Steven Vogt, Garth Illingworth, and others. Stories about the cuts at Lick also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, KQED Science, and Inside Bay Area.
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Monterey students are among thousands of young "citizen scientists" in California
Biologist John Pearse was quoted in a story about citizen scientists participating in a tide pool monitoring program he started in the 70s. The story ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, and other media.