Media Coverage

Biologist Elliott Hazen was quoted in stories about blue whales in Monterey Bay in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey Herald, and other media outlets.

The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by Jody Greene, professor of literature and director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, about how the proposed Republican tax reform bill in Congress would have particularly negative consequences for graduate students.

Biologists Gemma Murray and Beth Shapiro were featured in widespread news coverage of their research on passenger pigeons, including stories on NPR's All Things Considered, the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, Forbes, Independent, Yahoo News, and many other media outlets.

Planetary scientist Xi Zhang was quoted in widespread coverage of his research on Pluto's atmosphere, including stories in the Washington Post, New Scientist, Nature, Daily Mail, Space.com, Popular Science, Scientific American, Astronomy, MSN, Yahoo News, and other media outlets.

Nanopore pioneers David Deamer and Mark Akeson, and other UCSC researchers, were mentioned in a story about startup company 2 Pore Guys in Chemical & Engineering News.

Associate professor of film and digital media Rick Prelinger was featured in the New York Times for his latest work, “Lost Landscapes of New York," in which critic Manohla Dargis described the film as a "wondrous compilation…drawn from a variety of sources, including old home movies and "process plates" material used as backgrounds in commercial…

KQED covered an exhibition at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery spotlighting The Gail Project, a collaborative public history project that explores the founding years of the American military occupation of Okinawa, interviewing history professor Alan Christy and one of his student historians, Alexyss "Lex" McClellan.

History professor Dana Frank was quoted in The Nation for an article about how the United States willfully continues to ignore institutional corruption and criminal leaders in Honduras. Frank was also quoted in a related story that appeared in InSight Crime.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation aired a talk on public radio by sociologist Jenny Reardon, who discussed justice in genomics and biomedical research.