Media Coverage
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A heavy heart may have rolled Pluto over
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in widespread coverage of evidence for a subsurface ocean on Pluto, including stories in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, PBS NewsHour, Scientific American, AP, Christian Science Monitor, Economist, Gizmodo, Wired, Ars Technica, The Verge, YahooNews, Astronomy Now, Space.com, Popular Science, and many…
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Older English language learners can face restricted learning opportunities
Peggy Estrada, associate research scientist in Latin American and Latino studies, was interviewed about older students who are English-language learners by “Learning the Language” blog of Education Week.
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What women who condemned Trump’s sexism do now
Psychology professor and chair Campbell Leaper was quoted extensively in a Buzzfeed post on women and sexism in light of the presidential election results.
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What the lottery can tell us about college affordability
Vox.com wrote about a study by economics professors George Bulmnan and Rob Fairlie that looked at tax return data from state lottery winners to investigate college-going decisions.
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How Historians of Tomorrow Will Interpret Donald Trump’s Election
Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall was featured in a Time Magazine post-election story that asked eight historians to weigh in on one question: "When historians of the future look back on this week, what do you think they will see?"
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Finding the Art In Our Stars
Metro Silicon Valley featured a story about Look Back in Time: Russell Crotty and Lick Observatory, the first traveling exhibition of the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, opening in November at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Flashy recyclable photovoltaic system breaks record for solar energy
Physicist Sue Carter was quoted in an article about solar energy systems in IEEE Spectrum.
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How driverless cars could empower pedestrians
Several online publications, including The Atlantic’s “City Lab” blog, wrote about environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball’s journal article about pedestrians and self-driving cars. Others include Planet Citizen, the Register in the U.K. and the IEEE Spectrum.
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Ancient cave lion cubs found crushed and frozen in Russia
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in coverage of research on the remains of ancient cave lion cubs found frozen in permafrost in Russia, including stories from LiveScience, CBS News, Fox News, and other media outlets.
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Internet Archive, repository of modern culture, turns 20
Film archivist and UCSC associate professor of film and digital media Rick Prelinger was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about Internet Archive, a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites and more, founded by computer scientist and entrepreneur Brewster Kahle.
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Daniel Wirls: Time to terminate the nuclear triad
The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by politics professor Daniel Wirls calling for the U.S. to eliminate all land-based nuclear missiles, one leg of the outdated nuclear triad.
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UCSC goes bald to back childhood cancer research
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered a Genomics Institute fundraiser for childhood cancer research, featuring researchers Katrina Learned, Teresa Swatloski, David Haussler, Olena Morozova, and others.