Media Coverage
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Los Angeles Times
Study helps untangle polar bear and brown bear genetics
Research on polar bears and brown bears led by biologist Beth Shapiro and biomolecular engineer Ed Green was covered by the Los Angeles Times, Discover, NBC News.com, Yahoo!News, CTV News, KTUU (Alaska), Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Toronto Star, Nunatsiaq News, French Tribune, Nature World News, LiveScience, Science Daily, Red Orbit, PhysOrg, and other news outlets.
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San Jose Mercury News
Clara, the peregrine falcon is back at San Jose City Hall with a new mate
The appearance of falcon eggs in a nest at San Jose City Hall again has prompted the San Jose Mercury News to write about the annual occurrence and quote Glenn Stewart, director of the Predatory Bird Research Group at Long Marine Laboratory.
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The Scientist
Life Below the Seabed
Earth scientist Andy Fisher was quoted in an article in The Scientist magazine about the recovery of rock samples containing microbial life from deep within the Earth's oceanic crust.
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The New Yorker
Up All Night: The science of sleeplessness
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert quoted extensively from assistant anthropology professor Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 's book The Slumbering Masses in her article on sleeping and sleep problems. The Huffington Post's HuffPost Live followed The New Yorker with an online video report on the same subjecct and interviewed Wolf-Meyer via Skype.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Dueling robots draw crowd to UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and KSBW TV covered the "Slug Trek" public robotics demonstration featuring a competition between robots built by students in computer engineer Gabe Elkaim's Mechtronics class.
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SYS-CON Media
UC Santa Cruz Cancer Genomics Hub Wins CENIC’s 2013 Innovations in Networking Award for High-Performance Research Applications
The CENIC Innovations in Networking Award for UCSC's Cancer Genomics Hub was covered by SYS-CON Media, Education Technology, Green Technology World, Smart Grid, Virtual Technology Magazine, CNS, Drug Discovery and Development, and other online news sites.
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San Jose Mercury News
UCSC scientist leads team investigating disappearing reptiles, amphibians
An international collaboration led by biologist Barry Sinervo to study the effects of climate change on plants and animals around the world was covered by the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Pasadena Star-News.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz symposium looks to bridge nutrition, social impact
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on the symposium on nutrition and policy that community studies professor Julie Guthman organized.
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NBC Bay Area
Peregrine falcon wounded at San Francisco Airport
Glenn Stewart, director of UCSC's Predatory Bird Research Group, is interviewed about the discovery of a wounded peregrine and airport practices that led to its shooting.
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Science Blog
Some bacteria may protect against disease caused by stomach infection
Microbiologist Karen Ottemann's research on stomach infections was covered by Science Blog, BioMedicine, Medical Xpress, and Medical News Today.
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KQED
Attack of the Killer Electrons! New Mission Searches for Mysterious Space Particles
Physicist David Smith is featured in a KQED radio and multimedia story about high-energy particles that threaten communications satellites and a NASA project to study them.
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Science
Physicists Discover a Whopping 13 New Solutions to Three-Body Problem
Mathematics prof Richard Montgomery was quoted in articles about new solutions to the "three-body problem" in Science magazine and Huffington Post.