Media Coverage
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Radical New DNA Sequencer Finally Gets into Researchers’ Hands
Biomolecular engineers David Deamer and Mark Akeson and their work on nanopore sequencing are featured in a Technology Review article about the MinION nanopore sequencer introduced by U.K. company Oxford Nanopore.
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Santa Cruz's Seymour Marine Discovery Center blends fun and education
The San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Inside Bay Area ran a feature story in the travel section about the Seymour Marine Discovery Center.
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Earth’s Impending Magnetic Flip
Geophysicist Gary Glatzmaier was featured in a Scientific American article about reversals of the Earth's magnetic field. The story also ran in Salon.
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Conflicts with Yosemite bears fall dramatically as people, bears learn new lessons
Biologist Jack Hopkins was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about Yosemite bears that also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Associated Press, and newspapers throughout California and elsewhere.
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Illustrated History
The Santa Cruz Good Times ran a profile of alumnus Thom Zajac, a graduate of the UC Santa Cruz creative writing program, who is now celebrating his 30th anniversary as founder and publisher of the Santa Cruz Comic News.
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Big Bang Mystery Extends Into Nearby Galaxy, Puzzling Cosmologists
Physicist Joel Primack was quoted in a National Geographic story about the cosmological implications of unexpectedly low measurements of lithium in stars.
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Wildlife energy: Survival of the fittest
Biologist Terrie Williams is featured in a Nature news story about her lab's research on the physiology and energetics of wild animals.
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Sage Rush
The Santa Cruz Good Times published a profile of humanities lecturer Gary Young, the acclaimed poet and director of UCSC’s Cowell Press, who served as Santa Cruz's first official poet laureate.
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UCSC alum wins Emmy for HBO's "True Detective"
The San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Contra Costa Times ran a story about 1999 history graduate Cary Fukunaga, who won the 2014 "Outstanding Director for a Drama Series" Emmy Award for the HBO series "True Detective."
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Ancient Egyptian Art Opens Window on Mammal Extinctions
Biologist Justin Yeakel's research on extinctions of large mammals over 6,000 years of Egyptian history was covered by NBC News, Smithsonian, LiveScience, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Popular Archaeology, Archaeology magazine, Yahoo News, Oregon Herald, Science Daily, Science Newsline, Tech Times, Science 2.0, International Business Times, UPI, Latin Post, Europa Press, and other…
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Sea star population slowly recovers from wasting syndrome
Biologist Pete Raimondi was interviewed about sea star wasting syndrome on southern California public radio station KPCC.
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Is There a Future for Wilderness?
Scientific American quoted Michael Soulé, professor emeritus of environmental studies, in a column ruminating on the notion of wilderness in the United States.