Media Coverage
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Inside the quest to ‘de-extinct’ mammoths
The New York Post ran an in-depth article about biologist Beth Shapiro and her new book 'How to Clone a Mammoth.'
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UCSC opens new virtual reality lab
Computational media professors Sri Kurniawan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin were quoted in coverage of the new CAVE Lab for virtual reality research projects, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Santa Cruz Tech Beat.
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How a $1.4-billion scientific project ran into a cultural buzz saw
Astronomer Michael Bolte was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the challenges facing the Thirty Meter Telescope project.
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Living on $10 an hour in Santa Cruz County
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about the Working for Dignity research study and event featuring interviews with low-wage workers in the county.
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After a killer disease, baby starfish make comeback
Biologist Pete Raimondi was featured in a KION TV news story about sea star wasting disease.
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Term-Limit Ruling Is Another Nail in the Coffin of Honduran Democracy
History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to World Politics Review about how a ruling by the Supreme Court of Honduras, throwing out a constitutional ban on the re-election of presidents, is another step in the ongoing, methodical destruction of the rule of law and constitutional order in Honduras.
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Astronomers measure distance to farthest galaxy yet
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in widespread coverage of his team's discovery of the most distant galaxy ever seen, including stories from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, AP, Japan Times, Toronto Sun, CBC, ABC News, CBS News, MSN, Fox News, Huffington Post, New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Wired, Yahoo News,…
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Two-hundred years of Cuban coral arrives in Santa Cruz
Marine ecologist Daria Siciliano is featured in a KQED Science story about her team's project studying a four-foot-long core from a Cuban coral reef for clues to environmental change on the reef over the past 200 years.
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Mammoth genomes provide recipe for creating Arctic elephants
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in a Nature news story about mammoth genome sequences.
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Baby starfish offer a glimmer of hope for recovery
Biologist Pete Raimondi was quoted in an update on the sea star wasting disease from the Associated Press that was widely published, including stories from CBS News, ABC News, Vancouver Sun, Monterey Herald, Globe and Mail, Oregon Live, Sci Tech News, Daily Mail, China Post, and many other media outlets.
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Pint-sized DNA sequencer impresses first users
Biomolecular engineer David Deamer was quoted in a Nature story about the MinION portable DNA sequencer.
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Invisible Universe Revealed
Astronomer Sandra Faber is featured in a NOVA program about the Hubble Space Telescope, "Invisible Universe Revealed," broadcast on PBS station nationwide. The Los Gatos Weekly and San Jose Mercury News also ran a profile of Faber and her many contributions to the field of astronomy.