Media Coverage
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San Jose Mercury News
Ethics Bowl comes to UC Santa Cruz
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories on a state regional Ethics Bowl tournament, hosted for the very first time on the UC Santa Cruz campus by the Humanities Division's Philosophy Department.
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The New Yorker
Following the Grateful Dead over the decades
A story about the Grateful Dead in the New Yorker magazine noted that Nicholas Meriwether is the curator of the Grateful Dead Archive which the band had donated to UC Santa Cruz. An article about the Grateful Dead Archive and Meriwether also appeared in the journal, American Scholar.
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Los Angeles Times
Sikh religion joining California universities' curriculum: UC Santa Cruz is the latest to offer a course.
The Los Angeles Times published a feature story on the new Sikh and Punjabi Studies program in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The article was also picked up by the Sacramento Bee.
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San Jose Mercury News
UC Santa Cruz launches doctorate program in feminist studies
Stories about UCSC's new Ph.D. program in Feminist Studies were featured in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC team helping doctors target cancer
Research on proton radiography led by physicists Robert Johnson and Hartmut Sadrozinsky was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and MedGadget.
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Wired
Deep Sea Hydrology Bolsters Case for a Hidden Biosphere
Hydrologist Andy Fisher was featured in a Wired news story about his research on water flow and microbial life beneath the seafloor.
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Natural History
Into the Blue Serengeti
Biologist Daniel Costa's research on the migrations of top predators in the Pacific Ocean was featured in an article in Natural History magazine.
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GigaOm
Why data is the key to better medicine–and maybe a cure for cancer
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in a GigaOm article about applications of "big data" in medicine. The Washington Post also ran the story.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz program receives generous gift from the father of fiber optics
The gift from Narinder Kapany to fund an endowed chair in entrepreneurship was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey County Herald, and Laser Focus World.
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R&D Magazine
BioMAP could streamline search for new antibiotics
The BioMAP screening procedure for antibiotic discovery developed in biochemist Roger Linington's lab was covered by R&D magazine, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Medical News Today, Health News, Bio-Medicine, Science Daily, Infection Control Today, and Medical Express.
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Science Now
Glimmer of Hope for Fungus-Stricken Bats
There's very little good news with white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease spreading across the United States and Canada. But today researchers report online in Ecology Letters that one species of bat is reducing the risk of extinction with individual bats hibernating alone rather than in large groups.
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New York Times
A Planet ‘Just Right’ for Life? Perhaps, if It Exists
Forget about whether it can harbor life. Right now astronomers can’t agree whether a potential “Goldilocks” exoplanet even exists.