Media Coverage

Biochemist Michael Stone was quoted in international coverage of research on the telomerase enzyme, including stories from Agence France Presse, Daily Mail, Yahoo News, Inquirer, and other media outlets.

Physicist Arthur Ramirez was quoted in news stories about a new material with potential applications in quantum computing, including stories in PhysOrg, Electronics Weekly, Health Medicine Network, Nanowerk, and other media outlets.

Physicist Joel Primack and astronomer David Koo were quoted in widespread coverage of their research using artificial intelligence to analyze images of galaxies, including stories in Gizmodo, Register, Daily News, R&D Magazine, Universe Today, Science Daily, and other media outlets.

On the 19th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting, Newsweek magazine interviewed Professor Emeritus Elliot Aronson about his research on how to increase cooperation and respect among students in school.

Wildlife biologists Glenn Stewart and Zeka Glucs banded peregrine falcon chicks in a nest on the PG&E headquarters building in San Francisco, garnering coverage in the San Francisco Examiner, Bay Area TV stations, and other media outlets.

Botanist Stephen McCabe was quoted in a widely published San Jose Mercury News story about rare succulents being poached from the wild in California and shipped to Asia for sale to collectors. McCabe was also interviewed on NBC Bay Area and KCBS TV News.

The San Francisco Chronicle featured a review by art critic Charles Desmarais about FOREST (for a thousand years…), a sound installation by Canadian artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, presented by the Arts Division’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences in a redwood grove at the UCSC Arboretum and Botanic Garden.

Arts dean Susan Solt was quoted in a New York Times obituary for Helen Mayer Harrison, professor emerita of digital arts and new media at UC Santa Cruz.

Anthropologist Lars Fehren-Schmitz was quoted in a Nature article about research that shows the sweet potato migrated to Polynesia thousands of years before people did.

History professor Dana Frank was quoted in a BuzzFeed story about a caravan of people fleeing Honduras. She was also interviewed about the caravan on KPFA and WBEZ Chicago Public Radio.