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Craig Haney: Floridians prefer life without parole over capital punishment for murderers
The Tampa Bay Times published an op-ed by Craig Haney, distinguished professor of psychology, on his research on Florida public opinion regarding the death penalty. Haney is also co-director of the University of California Criminal Justice & Health Consortium.
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Study: Startup Activity Is on the Upswing
Tech.Co, an online site that covers tech startup news, quoted economics professor Rob Fairlie in a report on the Kaufmann Index report on startup activity of which Fairlie is an author.
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Give it up, sneaky males: These lady fish have you outwitted
Biologist Suzanne Alonzo's research on the reproductive tricks of the ocellated wrasse received widespread coverage, including a Wall Street Journal video and stories from Smithsonian, the Guardian, Daily Mail, UPI, The Scientist, Science News, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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Susan Solt named dean at UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the new UC Santa Cruz arts dean, Susan Solt.
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Via sensor or struggle, seals offer ocean of insight into climate change underseas
Biologist Dan Costa is quoted in a story in Fusion about climate change impacts on marine mammals.
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NASA's Fermi mission expands its search for dark matter
Physicist Regina Caputo was quoted in stories about the search for dark matter using NASA's Fermi space telescope, including stories from Science Daily, Space.com, Space Daily, Astronomy Now, Innovations Report, and other outlets.
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Perseids meteor shower even better this year
Lick Observatory astronomer Elinor Gates is quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about the Perseid meteor shower.
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Murky outlook for crab season
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela is quoted in a story about prospects for this year's crab season in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Marin Independent Journal.
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New evidence sheds light on how humans colonized America
Biologists Beth Shapiro and Peter Heintzman were quoted in coverage of new findings on the opening of an ice-free corridor for human migration into the Americas, including stories in the New York Times, Nature, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and an Associated Press story that ran in the Sacramento Bee, CBS News, Yahoo News, Salon, and many…
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Genesis in a jar: How chemical gardens may lead us to alien life
Biomolecular engineer David Deamer is quoted in a New Scientist feature story about research on the origins of life.