Media Coverage
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'It Serves The Elites Well': Honduran Gov't Fails Returning Migrants as NGOs Step In
Latin American television network Telesur interviewed emerita history professor Dana Frank for a story about Hondurans migrating to Mexico and the United States in order to seek asylum. Frank was also featured on KPFA’s “UpFront” program and on Korean radio about the Honduran caravan heading north.
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How a Santa Cruz County man revived the search for alien life
Good Times ran a profile of astronomer Frank Drake and his work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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Kepler, the little NASA spacecraft that could, no longer can
Astronomer Natalie Batalha was quoted in a New York Times article about NASA's announcement of the end of the Kepler mission.
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How elephant seals help scientists explore the deep sea
Biologist Rachel Holser and other members of Dan Costa's lab were featured in a story about their elephant seal research program on an episode of the video series "Mission Wild" from Great Big Story.
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UC Santa Cruz chancellor to retire at the end of the academic year
The LA Times noted that Chancellor George Blumenthal's longevity at UC "has made him one of the leaders most knowledgeable about the system’s institutional history, politics and culture."
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The big meltdown
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a National Geographic magazine article about the effects of climate change in Antarctica.
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Dungeness crab season nears in California, but toxins pose a familiar threat
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about the algal toxins threatening the dungeness crab harvest.
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Santa Cruz County affordable housing solutions explored
Sociology faculty members Steve McKay and Miriam Greenberg, co-directors of the No Place Like Home initiative, were cited in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the recent affordable-housing forum at the Civic Auditorium.
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Silicon Valley's dirty secret: Using a shadow workforce of contract employees to drive profits
A report by Chris Benner, professor of environmental studies and sociology, and Ph.D. student Kyle Neering was cited in a Yahoo Finance article about the "shadow workforce" of contract employees in Silicon Valley.
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Eugenic Thinking Today
Megan Moodie, associate professor of anthropology, published a review of the documentary film "Intelligent Lives" in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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California’s underwater forests are being eaten by the ‘cockroaches of the ocean’
Marine ecologist Mark Carr was quoted in a New York Times article about the devastation of California's kelp forests by purple sea urchins.
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3D-printed graphene scaffold breaks capacitor records
Chemist Yat Li was quoted in coverage of his team's research on supercapacitors, including stories in Inside Science News, IEEE Spectrum, Science Daily, Science Tech News, Scienmag, iConnect, and other media outlets.