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Mark Massoud: Three important points to help in understanding South Sudan’s worsening crisis
Politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud published an op-ed in the Washington Post on the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.
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Meet Carnegie Fellow Mark Fathi Massoud
The website PSNow, published by the American Political Science Association, featured an interview with politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud, a member of the 2016 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
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Stephen Kessler: Reading, writing and the humanities
Literature alumnus Stephen Kessler contributed an article to the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the value of a humanities education, written in response to a story about a team of UC Santa Cruz students who won a national competition for an essay about a project demonstrating the importance of the humanities.
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Millions Of Women Take A Long Walk With A 40-Pound Water Can
An NPR piece on a study showing women bear the brunt of collecting water across sub-Saharan Africa included quotes from sociology professor Ben Crow whose research includes improving water supply infrastructure in the region.
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First water clouds outside our solar system spotted just 7.2 light years from Earth
Astronomer Andrew Skemer was quoted in coverage of his research on a nearby brown dwarf, the coldest object known outside our solar system, including stories from the Daily Mail, Washington Post, Astronomy Now, Space.com, USA Today, Toronto Telegraph, Huffington Post, AP, NewsBeat Social, UPI, Yahoo News, Gizmodo, Breitbart, Popular Science, Nature World News, Peoples Daily,…
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New clues in search for Planet Nine
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney is quoted in a Science News story about the search for a possible Planet Nine.
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What’s being done to assess blue-green algae’s risk to humans
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela is quoted in an AP story about toxic cyanobacteria in freshwater lakes that ran in the Los Angeles Daily News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, San Bernardino County Sun, and other California newspapers.
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Rebooting the human genome
Genomics expert Benedict Paten is quoted in a Technology Review article about work on a new, more sophisticated human reference genome.
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PG&E’s Diablo Canyon closure plan clears 1st hurdle
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy, in an update on PG&E’s plan to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
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Economist forecasts continued growth for Santa Cruz County
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about UCSC’s entrepreneurship efforts as part of an article on a meeting of the Santa Cruz County Business Council at UCSC.