Media Coverage
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Rock-paper-scissors may explain evolutionary 'games' in nature
Biologist Barry Sinervo was quoted in a Science magazine article about 'rock-paper-scissors' games in nature.
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Hot Jupiters: Cloudy or clear?
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a Sky & Telescope story about research on the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
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Fighting microbe with microbe in race to defeat the fungus plaguing bats
The Minnesota Post ran a story about research in biologist Marm Kilpatrick's lab on white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease affecting bat populations.
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Toxic bloom impacts Monterey Bay marine life
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela is quoted in a story in the Monterey Herald and Santa Cruz Sentinel about a bloom of toxic algae affecting marine life in Monterey Bay, also covered by KSBW TV.
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A new theory to explain the Higgs mass
Physicist Michael Dine was quoted in an article in Quanta and Wired News about a new theory to explain the mass of the Higgs boson.
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Big animals are going the way of the mammoth
Biologist Laurel Fox was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about the declining populations of large herbivores. The story ran in many other news outlets, including the Contra Costa Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Associated Press, and others.
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How to clone a mammoth
Biologist Beth Shapiro was a guest on CBC Radio's 'Quirks and Quarks' interview program, talking about her new book 'How to Clone a Mammoth.'
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Backyard evolution
Evolutionary biologist John Thompson is quoted in an Aeon magazine article about "microgeographic evolution," how differences can evolve within populations of the same species over small spatial scales.
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Scientists at Keck discover the fluffiest galaxies
Astronomer Jean Brodie was quoted in coverage of her team's discovery of the "fluffiest" known galaxies, including stories from Astronomy, Astronomy Now, Space Ref, and others.
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The baffling, gruesome plague that Is causing sea stars to tear themselves to pieces
Biologists Allison Gong and Pete Raimondi are featured in an article in the May issue of Vice magazine about sea star wasting syndrome.
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UC Santa Cruz research facility wins $2M grant
Biochemist Glenn Millhauser was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a $2 million NIH grant for a new instrument for the NMR Facility.
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How much more is there to know about the Grateful Dead?
An article in the Washington Post noted that the Grateful Dead have created an enormous, living body of work ripe for scholarship, adding, "Pulled from the band’s own vault, an immense trove of press clippings, fan mail and memorabilia is housed in the library of the University of California at Santa Cruz, much of it…