Media Coverage

The San Francisco Chronicle quoted Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy, in an update on PG&E’s plan to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about UCSC’s entrepreneurship efforts as part of an article on a meeting of the Santa Cruz County Business Council at UCSC.

Grad students Cong Liu, Pedro Cori, and Alex Formoso were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about their digital game proposal that won an award at the E3 game industry conference.

Science News ran a story about electrical engineer Marco Rolandi's research on the electrosensory organs of sharks and rays.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about UCSC's Gail Project winning first prize in a national 'Shout Out for the Humanities' contest sponsored by 4Humanities.org, which encouraged undergraduate students across the country to make the case for the importance of the humanities.

Astronomer Michael Bolte was quoted in an article about the Thirty Meter Telescope that first appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald and was reprinted in newspapers across Australia.

The Irish Times published a very favorable review of history professor David Brundage's book, Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998, noting his research is "fascinating and provocative," and that "Brundage challenges us to rethink the history of Irish nationalism and its far-flung supoorters, and to ponder its present and future."

Daniel Hirsch, director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy, was quoted in articles by the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press on PG&E’s plan to close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear power plant.The articles appeared in publications around the country.

Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro is quoted in a Science magazine story about funding for research on ancient DNA, an area in which Europe is far ahead of the United States.

Paleontologist and PBSci dean Paul Koch was quoted in stories from Science, Tech Times, and other outlets about new research on the cause of the extinction of megafauna (mammoths and other large animals) at the end of the last ice age.