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Honduran official accused of stealing $300 million
History professor Dana Frank was interviewed by The New Orleans Advocate for a story about a Honduran official accused of robbing Honduran taxpayers of more than $300 million, noting that since the military coup, crime and corruption in Honduras has mushroomed.
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Tracking elephant seals
Biologist Dan Costa was featured in a segment about elephant seals on the television news program KQED Newsroom.
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Sea slug masses migrate to Northern California coast
Biologist John Pearse was quoted in coverage of the unusual population bloom of pink sea slugs in Northern California, including stories in the San Francisco Chronicle, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Smithsonian, Weather Channel, International Business Times, Science Daily, Science Newsline, PhysOrg, UPI, Slash Gear, and other media outlets.
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Foreign teachers come at a price, experts say
Education professor Lora Bartlett was the featured expert that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed for an article in a series on the exploitation of foreign teachers in U.S. schools.
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Why you keep dreaming about being naked
Emeritus professor Bill Domhoff was interviewed on his dream research by the online magazine Nautilus.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists drill through ice into a new Antarctic world
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a front page story about a team of UCSC scientists led by glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk who are involved in a drilling expedition in Antarctica to study the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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Why we're looking for alien life on moons, not just planets
Astronomers Greg Laughlin and Jonathan Fortney were quoted in a Wired News story about efforts to detect moons around extrasolar planets.
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Danny Scheie, Santa Cruz County Stories: Veteran actor and director
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a profile of Theater arts professor and award-winning actor Danny Scheie as part of its "Santa Cruz County Stories" series.
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Lisbeth Haas: Serra a poor choice for sainthood amid attempts at reconciliation
History professor Lisbeth Haas contributed an op-ed to the San Francisco Chronicle after Pope Francis announced his intention to make Father Junipero Serra a Catholic saint, noting that this "seems to defy the pope’s interest in justice and reconciliation, as Serra is associated with colonial expansion and violence in California."
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Sea otter pup conceived in wild is first born in captivity
Biologists Terrie Williams and Nicole Thometz, and animal trainer Courtney Ribeiro-French, are featured in a front page story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the first sea otter pup conceived in the wild and born in captivity at Long Marine Lab. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News and was distributed by…