Media Coverage
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Next generation of antibiotics could be found in nature, says new doc from Vancouver filmmakers
Biochemist Roger Linington is featured in a Vancouver Sun review of documentary film about the search for new antibiotics in which Linington is shown collecting samples from a three-toed sloth in the rainforest of Panama. The story ran in several other Canadian news outlets, including the Edmonton Journal, Windsor Star, and Leader Post.
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Anita Hill speaks at UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a front page story about a free public lecture at UC Santa Cruz by feminist icon, law professor, and activist Anita Hill.
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Banning Iranians from Academia Is Stupid, and One Student Has the Math to Back That Up
An interview with Hossein Daraei, a graduate student in electrical engineering, about Iranian students at U.S. universities was published by Take Part and reposted on Yahoo News.
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Road to the IGF: Down to the Wire's Ice-Bound
Game news site Gamasutra published an interview with graduate students Jacob Garbe and Aaron Reed about their interactive fiction project "Ice-Bound," a finalist for the upcoming Independent Games Festival awards.
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Cover Story: Reclaiming Anita
The Good Times Santa Cruz weekly newspaper featured a cover story on Anita Hill, about the impact of her 1991 testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, in anticipation of her public lecture at UC Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News also ran a story about Hill's upcoming visit to campus.
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Spider Martin’s Photographs of the Selma March Get a Broader View
In a story about the archive of photojournalist James "Spider" Martin, The New York Times quoted acting dean of the arts Martin Berger, who noted he was struck by how many scenes in the current film "Selma" seem to have been structured based on Spider Martin’s 1965 images shot in Selma. Berger's comments were also featured…
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UC Santa Cruz Carbon Fund jump starts climate action projects
The Santa Cruz Sentinel quoted environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball in an article about the student-funded carbon fund and how its proceeds are used to create climate action projects. Ball is the advisor to the fund.
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Near cities, pumas kill more but eat less
Newsweek magazine online was one of a number of media outlets that featured reports on a study by a UC Santa Cruz graduate student as part of the Santa Cruz Puma Project. The piece was picked up by MSN and other reports appeared in the Toronto Telegraph, Jagran Post in India, and on Redorbit.com.
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Internet of DNA
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in an article in the MIT Technology Review about his work with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health.
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Rise in Stranded Sea Lions Alarms Scientists
Marine biologist Dan Costa was a featured guest on a KQED Forum radio program about the increasing numbers of stranded sea lions.
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How much lead is in your chocolate?
Environmental toxicologist Russ Flegal was quoted in a Washington Post story about lead in chocolate.
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Lick Observatory gets $1 million donation from Google
Astronomer Elinor Gates was interviewed on KTVU and ABC7 TV news about the $1million gift to Lick Observatory from Google, while astronomer Claire Max was interviewed on KGO radio.