Media Coverage
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UCSC study: Drought testing limits of hardy ferns
Coverage of biologist Jarmila Pittermann's research on the effects of drought on native ferns included stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register, California Post, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
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Mirror on the cosmos: NASA's next big telescope takes shape
Astronomer Garth Illingworth is quoted in a Scientific American article about progress on the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Study says Sarao may not have been responsible for flash crash
Bloomberg Business News wrote an article about a draft paper, "The Flash Crash: A New Deconstruction," by Eric Aldrich in economics, Greg Laughlin, astronomy and astrophysics, and a Stanford colleague that analyzes on a millisecond level the May 2010 “flash crash” that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down nearly 1,000 points. Reuters and the…
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Two organizations send first-generation students to UCSC
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered a luncheon celebrating UCSC students who have benefited from Project Grad and the Gumball Foundation.
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Oscar nominated short 'Last Day of Freedom' streaming on Netflix
An article about associate professor of art Dee Hibbert-Jones's Academy Award nominated documentary short film, "Last Day of Freedom," appeared on examiner.com.
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Musical Enterprise
The Santa Cruz Good Times featured an article about associate professor of music Ben Carson and his project to compose a Star Trek opera.
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Strange superfast 'cannonball' star likely blasted from supernova
Undergraduate Kathryn Plant and astronomer Bruce Margon were quoted in coverage of their research on an unusual star, including stories from Space.com, Scientific American, Yahoo, and other media outlets.
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The 'Pluto killer' and the rocker: Meet the odd couple behind the Planet 9 discovery
Astronomer Greg Laughlin continues to be featured in coverage of the discovery of a possible ninth planet by his former student Konstantin Batygin and Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, including stories from KPCC (Southern California Public Radio), New Scientist, Chicago Tribune, and others.
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MRI patients flush gadolinium into San Francisco Bay
Research led by environmental toxicologist Russ Flegal and ocean scientist Ken Bruland on contamination of San Francisco Bay with gadolinium was covered in Chemical & Engineering News.
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Scientists find evidence for ninth planet in solar system
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in news coverage of the discovery of a possible ninth planet in our solar system, including stories from National Geographic, Science, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Yahoo, New York Post, Daily Mail (U.K.), National (Scotland), and other media outlets. Codiscoverer Konstantin Batygin, a UCSC alum, worked with Laughlin as an undergraduate and…
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To save its salmon, California calls in the fish matchmaker
Geneticist John Carlos Garza was featured in a New York Times story about how salmon are bred at hatcheries. The story ran on the front page of the New York Times Sunday edition.
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Birds are returning to a rodent-free island formerly known as Rat
Biologist Don Croll was featured in an article in Alaska Dispatch News about the return of seabirds to an island in Alaska after eradication of rats.