Media Coverage
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T.J. Demos: Playful protesters use art to draw attention to inadequacy of Paris climate talks
T.J. Demos, professor of history of art and visual culture, wrote a news analysis in Truthout on activists who created a variety of protests at the UN climate talks in Paris.
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Many exoplanets may hide water in their thick clouds
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was featured in coverage of his team's research on "hot Jupiter" exoplanets, including stories in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, Space.com, Sky & Telescope, Sci-News, Tech Times, Space Daily, EarthSky, Discovery News, and other media outlets.
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California's stranded sea lions suffering from brain damage caused by algal blooms
Widespread coverage of a study of sea lions with brain damage from algal toxins included stories in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Newsweek, KTVU, Discovery News, NBC News, Reuters, Sacramento Bee, Yahoo News, Daily Mail, Guardian, Science, National Geographic, UPI, and other media outlets.
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Ocean acidification: 'Evil twin' of global warming threatens Monterey Bay
Marine biologist Kristy Kroeker was quoted in a story about ocean acidification in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Deep-sea corals illuminate past and present ocean dynamics
Ocean scientists Matthew McCarthy and Kelton McMahon were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about their research using deep sea corals to study past ocean dynamics and climate.
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Debate grows over whether X‑rays are a sign of dark matter
Physicists Stefano Profumo and Tesla Jeltema are quoted in a Science News story about the debate over evidence of dark matter signals.
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Top space stories of 2015: Scientists spot youngest cluster of galaxies
The discovery of a quartet of quasars by astronomer J. Xavier Prochaska and colleagues was featured as one of Astronomy magazine's "Top Space Stories of 2015."
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Rethinking Shari’a, Voices of Islam in California
An article on Muslims in California by Mark Fathi Massoud, associate professor of politics, and Kathleen M. Moore, of UC Santa Barbara, was published online in Boom: A Journal of California, a quarterly published by UCLA. The editors published the piece early because of its timeliness.
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Internships support agroecology track
The agriculture trade website Morning Ag Clips picked up the piece about agroecology internships on campus.
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More than words
The Earth Island Journal featured a story about work by assistant professor of linguistics Maziar Toosarvandani to save an endangered Northern Paiute dialect that’s now down to a handful of speakers.
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Politics of Sexuality
The Navhind Times featured an interview with associate professor of feminist studies Anjali Arondekar about her research on the politics of sexuality in India.
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Mark Massoud: How can universities deal with racism? Learn from war zones
The Washington Post published an op-ed by politics professor Mark Fathi Massoud on how universities can learn from post-war reconciliation when responding to allegations of racism.