Media Coverage
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Mystery ailment is wiping out coast's starfish
Marine biologist Pete Raimondi is featured in another story about sea star wasting syndrome, this time from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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UC Santa Cruz droid robots battling tonight in Slugs vs. Bugs
KSBW-TV covered the student robotics competition, the culmination of computer engineer Gabe Elkaim's Mechatronics class.
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Nanobiopsies On Living Cells
Chemical & Engineering News ran an article about a new technique developed by biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand for taking samples from living cells without damaging them, which was also covered in The Scientist and Nature Nanotechnology.
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How Elephant Seals Know Who's Boss
Biology grad student Caroline Casey was quoted in stories about her research on elephant seals in Live Science, Discovery News, NBC News, Yahoo News, and Oregon Herald.
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Decoding a Tsunami’s Source
Earth scientists Patrick Fulton, Emily Brodsky, and Casey Moore were all quoted in coverage of new results from the JFAST investigation of the Tohoku fault that caused the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, including stories from the New York Times, LiveScience, Nature, Mashable, U.S. News & World Report, Christian Science Monitor, Smithsonian, National…
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Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins
Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro and geneticist Ed Green, both experts on ancient DNA, were quoted in coverage of new findings from ancient DNA recovered from 400,000-year-old human fossils. Shapiro was quoted in the New York Times and Green in USA Today, and both articles were reprinted widely in other news outlets.
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Taking games seriously
Brenda Romero, program director for the M.S. in games and playable media, was quoted in an article about changing attitudes toward computer games in Eurogamer and U.S. Gamer. Her board game 'Train' was also covered in Wired magazine in December.
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Divers search for clues to an epidemic killing millions of starfish
Biologist Pete Raimondi was featured in coverage of the sea star wasting syndrome on NBC Nightly News.
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Major split over buying junk food with federal aid
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted social science professor Julie Guthman in an article about food stamps and junk food. The article was republished by the blog GOPUSA.
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Honduras election bring risks of more instability
The Washington Post quoted history professor Dana Frank about the upcoming elections in Honduras, where she noted that the vote will be “a new test” for the Obama administration, which initially denounced the 2009 coup against Zelaya but later recognized the post-coup government. Frank also contributed a piece about the elections to Foreign Affairs.
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With Extra Anchovies, Deluxe Whale Watching
Marine biologist Baldo Marinovic is quoted in a New York Times article about the abundance of anchovies that has attracted large numbers of whales to Monterey Bay this year. The story also ran in the Herald Tribune.
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Scientists close in on finding most far-out galaxies
Astronomer Garth Illingworth is featured in an article in USA Today about the search for the most distant galaxies. The story was distributed by AP and ran in many newspapers and other news outlets throughout the country.