Media Coverage

  • New York Post

    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.

  • Los Angeles Times logo

    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.

  • After a killer disease, baby starfish make comeback

    Biologist Pete Raimondi was featured in a KION TV news story about sea star wasting disease.

  • World Politics Review

    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,…

  • KQED

    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.

  • CBS Bay Area

    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.

  • NOVA

    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.

Last modified: May 12, 2015