Media Coverage
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Researchers find supermassive black holes can 'switch off' star formation
Astronomers Jean Brodie and Ignacio Martin-Navarro were quoted in stories about their research on how supermassive black holes affect star formation in galaxies, including stories in the Daily Mail (U.K.), Newsweek, Mirror, UPI, Space Daily, Yahoo News, IFL Science, International Business Times, Nanowerk, Zee News, and other media outlets.
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Study: Some Bay Area coastal communities face high risk of cliff collapse
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about coastal erosion.
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Researchers discover the secret lives of elephant seals
Biologists Daniel Costa, Caroline Casey, and Theresa Keates were featured in a CBS Evening News story about their research on elephant seals.
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A Quarter of California Adolescents May Be ‘Gender Nonconforming.’ So What Does That Mean?
Psychology Professor Phil Hammack was quoted in a KQED Radio report about a new survey that found 27 percent of California youth are gender nonconforming.
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In Honduras, a tense time as elections put democracy through the test
History professor Dana Frank was interviewed about the controversial presidential election in Honduras for a variety of media outlets including NBC News, Bloomberg News, Democracy Now, Montreal's LeDevoir, The Intercept , Jacobin magazine ('The Election Is Being Stolen'), WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, National Public Radio, KPFA News, and KBOO (Austin, Texas).
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The Students Designing the Video Games of the Future
A Waypoint special from Vice Media about the graduate program in Games & Playable Media, broadcast on Disney XD, featured program director Michael John, creative director Erin Swink, and many of the students in the program.
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Trump’s right about one thing: The US Senate should end its 60-vote majority
Politics Professor Dan Wirls penned an opinion piece for The Conversation about the Senate's 60-vote majority rule, and it was picked up by papers around the country, including the Albany Times-Union and Idaho Press-Tribune.
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East Antarctic ice has a wild past. It may be a harbinger
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a National Geographic story about the stability of the East Antarctic ice sheet.
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Sea level rise may swamp many coastal U.S. sewage plants
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in an Eos article about the number of coastal sewage treatment plants threatened by sea level rise.
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Tasmanian tiger genome offers clues to its extinction
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in a Nature story about the genome of the extinct thylacine, a dog-like marsupial also called the Tasmanian tiger.
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Neuroscientists just launched an atlas of the developing human brain
Bioinformatics researcher Jim Kent was featured in a Wired story about his collaboration with UCSF researchers on a new atlas of the human brain.
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Stressed-out narwhals don't know whether to freeze or flee, scientists find
Biologist Terrie Williams was featured in widespread coverage of her research on narwhals, including stories from NPR's Morning Edition, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, BBC World News, PRI's Science Friday, National Geographic, Newsweek, Science, Nature, Science News, Sacramento Bee, Smithsonian, and many other media outlets.