Media Coverage

  • Mercury News "M" logo

    Big animals are going the way of the mammoth

    Biologist Laurel Fox was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about the declining populations of large herbivores. The story ran in many other news outlets, including the Contra Costa Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Associated Press, and others.

  • CBC

    How to clone a mammoth

    Biologist Beth Shapiro was a guest on CBC Radio's 'Quirks and Quarks' interview program, talking about her new book 'How to Clone a Mammoth.'

  • Aeon

    Backyard evolution

    Evolutionary biologist John Thompson is quoted in an Aeon magazine article about "microgeographic evolution," how differences can evolve within populations of the same species over small spatial scales.

  • Astronomy

    Scientists at Keck discover the fluffiest galaxies

    Astronomer Jean Brodie was quoted in coverage of her team's discovery of the "fluffiest" known galaxies, including stories from Astronomy, Astronomy Now, Space Ref, and others.

  • Motherboard

    The baffling, gruesome plague that Is causing sea stars to tear themselves to pieces

    Biologists Allison Gong and Pete Raimondi are featured in an article in the May issue of Vice magazine about sea star wasting syndrome.

  • SCS logo

    UC Santa Cruz research facility wins $2M grant

    Biochemist Glenn Millhauser was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a $2 million NIH grant for a new instrument for the NMR Facility.

  • The Washington Post

    How much more is there to know about the Grateful Dead?

    An article in the Washington Post noted that the Grateful Dead have created an enormous, living body of work ripe for scholarship, adding, "Pulled from the band’s own vault, an immense trove of press clippings, fan mail and memorabilia is housed in the library of the University of California at Santa Cruz, much of it…

  • CBS Bay Area

    Quartet of quasars discovered for the first time

    Astronomer Xavier Prochaska was quoted in coverage of his team's discovery of a rare quasar quartet, including stories from CBS News, Mashable, UPI, Zee News, Sci-News, Astronomy Now, and other media outlets.

  • SCS logo

    UC Santa Cruz professor develops HIV vaccine

    Biomolecular engineer Phil Berman's research on an HIV vaccine was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, KSBW TV, KION TV, and BioSpace. The KSBW news clip was rebroadcast on other NBC TV news affiliates across the country.

  • The Wall Street Journal

    Women started smaller percentage of U.S. businesses in 2014

    A Wall Street Journal article on female entrepreneurs was based on a study by economics department chair Rob Fairlie. MSN.comalso published the article.

Last modified: Apr 02, 2025