Media Coverage
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Uncle Ben's secret recipe: Open the Fed's cookbook
Professor of economics Carl Walsh commented on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's legacy of transparency for a story on the radio program Marketplace.
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French King Henry IV's head stars in forensic dispute
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.
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UC Santa earns grant to sponsor ag education for generation next
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Monterey County Herald published articles on a grant UCSC received to promote education in sustainable agriculture.
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Data-Mining Our Dreams
Dream research work of Bill Domhoff, professor emeritus of social psychology, was discussed in an opinion piece in the New York Times.
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UC Santa Cruz seeks $300 million in donations
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.
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Are Marmoset Monkeys Taking Turns To Talk?
Psychology professor Margaret Wilson commented for a National Geographic article on a study that suggested Marmoset monkeys take turns communicating. Wilson disputed the study's conclusions.
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Wolf to Dog: Scientists Agree on How, but Not Where
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.
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Solar Siblings Hint at Our Sun's Turbulent Youth
Discover magazine ran a story about astrophysicist Mark Krumholz's research on the origins of our sun.
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UC Santa Cruz team one of six winners in DREAM challenge for cancer researchers
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.
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What's wiping out the starfish in California?
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.
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Retracing Steps
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.
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Scientists find good news for coral reefs
Marine scientist Adina Paytan was quoted in a Monterey Herald story about coral reefs and global warming.