Media Coverage
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Meet Alison Galloway, preeminent forensic anthropologist
As part of its tribute to Women's History Month, the San Jose Mercury News featured a profile of Anthropology Professor Alison Galloway.
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UCSC service learning spring break provides alternative
As part of the Alternative Spring Break program offered by Colleges Nine and Ten, 25 undergraduates are spending five days in Watsonville, visiting farm workers, volunteering in an elementary school, painting a mural designed by Watsonville High School students, distributing donated clothes at a free flea market, and volunteering with Second Harvest Food Bank.
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Genome 10K wants to sequence the genes of endangered species
Genome scientist David Haussler was quoted in a story about the Genome 10K Project in Yahoo News, Digital Trends, and other media outlets.
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Enigmatic plumes from Saturn’s moon caused by cosmic collision
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted stories about Saturn's moon Enceladus in New Scientist and Gizmodo.
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Early galaxies found hiding in 'super halos' of hydrogen
Astronomers Xavier Prochaska and Marcel Neeleman were quoted in coverage of their research on distant galaxies, including stories in Wired, International Business Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Science Daily, and other media outlets, as well as an essay by Prochaska that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle, Scientific American, and dozens of other publications.
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Whatever you do, don’t say yes when this chatbot asks, 'Can you hear me?'
Computer scientist Marilyn Walker was quoted in a David Lazarus column about chatbots using artificial intelligence to sound more human, which ran in the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
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A new blast may have forged cosmic gold
Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz was quoted in an article in Quanta magazine about the debate over the origins of gold in the universe.
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Juno mission collects 'out of the box' data on Jupiter
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a story about NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter on NPR's "Here and Now" program.
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Realizing you have been scammed
Professor emeritus of psychology Thomas Pettigrew published an opinion piece about the plight of "relatively moderate Republican voters" who regret casting their ballots for Donald Trump.
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Trump's planned military buildup is based on faulty claims, not good strategy
Politics Professor Dan Wirls warns that if President Trump unleashes another "unchecked military spending spree," he and Congress will compound rather than fix the problems of priorities and waste created by the allocation since 9/11 of trillions of dollars in military spending.
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How colleges can better admit students
In a Sunday op-ed about college admissions, columnist Devin G. Pope cited a paper by George Bulman, an assistant professor of economics. Bulman's paper showed that GPA's later in high school are more predictive of whether a student drops out of college within two years.
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UC Santa Cruz professor fights insects with sound
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the research of music professor David Dunn, who has collborated with two forest scientists from Northern Arizona University on a patented device and protocol to help fight an insect infestation that is destroying trees throughout the West. Stories also appeared in phys.org and eScienceNews.