Media Coverage
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Daniel Wirls: Gridlock in Washington? Not when it comes to military spending
The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by politics professor Daniel Wirls on the continued rise in military spending.
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This bad boy geneticist wants to clone a mammoth
Biologist Beth Shapiro is quoted in a Wired news story about scientists who want to clone a woolly mammoth.
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Quasar backlighting gives weight to Andromeda galaxy
Astronomer Jason Prochaska was quoted in a New Scientist story about a new study of the Andromeda galaxy.
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What’s in Antarctica’s Blood Falls?
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in an article in Red Orbit about his team's investigation of Antarctica's "Blood Falls."
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UC Santa Cruz music lecture series set to begin April 6
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article announcing the lineup for the 2015 Arts Dean's Lecture Series, Music, Language, Mind, Evolution, quoting music professor Larry Polansky, the curator of this year's series.
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In the field: our daily bread
UC Santa Cruz, the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and many of its alums figured prominently in an Edible Monterey Bay magazine article on a resurgence of wheat growing on the Central Coast.
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Hubble telescope spots ocean on Jupiter moon Ganymede
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a USA Today article about new evidence of an ocean on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. The story was distributed on the AP wire service and ran in newspapers and media outlets throughout the country.
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Methane in Lake Traced to Seasonal Thawing
Earth scientist Adina Paytan's research on methane in Arctic lakes was covered by R&D Magazine, Weather Channel, Science Codex, PhysOrg, NationTalk, Science Daily, Alaska Business Monthly, and other media outlets.
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Martian canyons may have been carved by wind
Research led by geologist Jonathan Perkins on the role of wind in eroding canyons on Earth and Mars was featured in news stories in Science magazine and Ars Technica.
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Dana Frank: Just Like Old Times in Central America
History professor Dana Frank contributed an extensive article to Foreign Policy detailing why the U.S. needs to stop funneling money to Honduras and start treating its president like the corrupt ruler he has demonstrated that he is.
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UCSC students advance to Hult Prize regionals
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured an article about a team of three UC Santa Cruz music majors who advanced to the regional finals of the sixth annual global Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition and start-up platform for social good.
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Most native tongues of the West are all but lost
High Country News magazine quoted assistant professor of linguistics Maziar Toosarvandani, who is working with the last three surviving native Paviotso speakers on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada to build an online dictionary and a compendium of tribal stories to help save the endangered Native language.