Media Coverage
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Government takes SNAP ‘harvest box’ proposal to a patronizing extreme
Social Sciences Professor Julie Guthman was quoted in Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham's commentary about the Trump administration's proposal to scale back food-assistance programs, calling the ideas "punitive and insulting."
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Animal trainers gone wild
Biologist Terrie Williams and animal trainer Beau Richter were featured in a Hakai magazine story about their work with wild Weddell seals in Antarctica.
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Watch: A minke whale’s view of the Antarctic
Marine ecologist Ari Friedlaender was featured in news coverage of his research on minke whales in Antarctica, including stories on Mongabay, CNN, EcoWatch, Australian TV, and other media outlets.
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Where will the next big one hit? Earthquakes leave nearby areas vulnerable to future events
Seismologist Thorne Lay was quoted in news coverage of his research on large earthquakes, including stories in Newsweek, Express (U.K.), New Zealand Herald, Yahoo News, Science Daily, and other media outlets.
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Breaking through the HIV vaccine ‘logjam’: UC Santa Cruz lab reports improvements that could prove game-changing
Biomolecular engineer Phil Berman was featured in a story about his research on HIV vaccines that ran on the front page of the Santa Cruz Sentinel and in the San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, Sacramento Bee, Miami Herald, and other newspapers.
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UCSF Gets Another $500 Million Donation
A KQED story about a large donation to UCSF, from the Helen Diller Family Foundation, noted that the family is also known for helping to fund the UC Santa Cruz Jewish Studies program.
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Filmmaker Rick Prelinger Is Resurrecting New York City’s Lost Urban Landscapes
Metropolis magazine featured a story about film and digital media professor Rick Prelinger's film, Lost Landscapes of New York, in which he uses rarely-seen period footage to reveal the city's daily life and changing streetscape.
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Fresh insights into what protects Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf
Glaciologist Carolyn Branecky Begeman was quoted in an article in Eos about research on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf.
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3D survey details dangerous megathrust fault off Costa Rican coast
Seismologists Joel Edwards and Eli Silver were quoted in news stories about their research on a megathrust fault off the coast of Costa Rica, including stories from UPI, Science Newsline, Scinexx, Costa Rica Today, EnvironmentGuru, and other media outlets.
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The Arctic permafrost holds a crazy amount of mercury—and that's bad news
Ocean scientist Carl Lamborg was quoted in a Scientific American article about the amount of mercury in Arctic permafrost.
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Chocolate: Brought To You By Bugs
In a segment pegged to Valentine's Day, Environmental Studies Professor Stacy Philpott was featured on National Public Radio's "Science Friday" program, talking about the menagerie of insects that thrive on and around cacao trees.
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The Last Continent: What does it mean to be a whale?
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was featured in articles about his research on humpback and minke whales in Antarctica in the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, and other news outlets.