Media Coverage
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UC Santa Cruz reinstates landmark Community Studies program
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote a page one article on the reinstatement of the Community Studies major in collaboration with Oakes College. The article was republished in the San Jose Mercury News, Pasadena Star-News, Monterey County Herald, Long Beach Press Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.
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Galaxy formation: Cosmic dawn
"For one sleepless week in early September 2009, Garth Illingworth and his team had the early Universe all to themselves." So begins a Nature news story about the discovery of the most distant galaxies ever seen by Illingworth and his colleages at UCSC.
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UC Santa Cruz research project aims to bring extinct passenger pigeon back to life
The San Jose Mercury News ran a story about efforts to recreate the passenger pigeon led by researcher Ben Novak in biologist Beth Shapiro's paleogenomics lab at UCSC.
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Can Purported Mammoth Blood Revive Extinct Species?
Paleogenomics expert Beth Shapiro was quoted in a National Geographic story about a frozen mammoth carcass found in Russia that researchers say includes 10,000-year-old mammoth blood. Shapiro was also interviewed on CNN and quoted in an article about the controversy over "de-extinction" in the Detroit Free Press.
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UCSC Opera’s Mistress of Wigs
The Santa Cruz Weekly ran a profile of Jeanna Hurd-Parham, the official wig designer for the UCSC Opera, spotlighting her work on the Music Department's spring production of Così fan tutte.
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Robots in the classroom the wrong innovation
The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by education professor Lora Bartlett in its Sunday Insight section. Writing about robots that teach English in South Korea, Bartlett argued that technology shouldn't be used just to make education cheaper and urges focus on quality.
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Life Under Antarctica's Ice
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk is featured in an article in the July/August issue of Discover magazine about his team's successful project in Antarctica to drill through the Whillans Ice Stream and sample the subglacial water.
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Turning Sharks and Seals Into Scientists
Biologist Dan Costa was quoted in a Popular Mechanics story about the use of satellite tags on marine animals to not only track their movements but also record environmental data.
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New single virus detection technique yields faster diagnosis
Media coverage of a new virus detection technique developed by electrical engineer Holger Schmidt included stories from R&D Magazine, Bloomberg Business Week, Red Orbit, Infection Control Today, Photonics Online, Innovations Report, Drug Discovery & Development, InfoTech News, StreetInsider, and Reuters.
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Carbon sequestration technique produces supergreen hydrogen fuel
A carbon capture technique developed by marine scientist Greg Rau that produces hydrogen fuel and counters ocean acidification was covered by R&D Magazine, UPI, Digital Journal, msnNOW, Environment & Energy, Red Orbit, Nanowerk, iTechPost, and other media.
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Mobile Ranger app captures West Cliff Drive history, geology
An app for a walking tour of West Cliff Drive designed by environmental studies and Earth studies graduate student Julia Gaudinski attracted the attention of the Santa Cruz Sentinel for an article that was republished in the San Jose Mercury News, Pasadena Star-News, Monterey County Herald, Long Beach Press Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, and Inland…
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UC Santa Cruz professor B. Ruby Rich celebrates release of new book on LGBT cinema
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about professor of film and digital media B. Ruby Rich and her participation in a special event in New York City, organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, honoring her latest book, New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut; also noting that Rich was just named the new…