Media Coverage
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Christa Martin: Gene Felice's interactive design
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of interactive artist Gene Felice, who just graduated from UC Santa Cruz's Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) program with a master of fine arts degree.
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U.S. Turns Back on Child Migrants After Its Policies in Guatemala, Honduras Sowed Seeds of Crisis
History professor Dana Frank was interviewed on the national news program Democracy Now, as well as on Fusion TV (a new channel launched by ABC News and Univision), Al Jazeera America news network, the weekly syndicated half-hour news magazine Between the Lines, and The Weekly Wonk digital news magazine about the link between the flood…
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Young women with sexy social media photos seen as less competent by peers, study shows
A study by psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen and former UC Santa Cruz graduate student Elizabeth Daniels published online in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture received coverage from the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and television station KTLA in Los Angeles.
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U.S. foreign policy provoked immigration crisis
The San Francisco Chronicle published an opinion piece by Héctor Perla Jr., assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies, on the flood of child immigrants to the United States.
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Seal of approval – How marine mammals provide important climate data
Biologist Dan Costa was featured in a Skeptical Science story about the use of marine mammals to collect climate data from the oceans.
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The remarkable comeback of sea otters to the B.C. coast
Marine ecologist James Estes was quoted in a Toronto Globe & Mail story about the recovery of sea otter populations along the British Columbia coast.
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Star Trek 'engine' goes where no one has gone before
Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a story in Science and Huffington Post about an experiment using powerful lasers to crush a diamond.
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Underwater Meadows Might Serve As Antacid For Acid Seas
Marine ecologist Mark Carr was featured in a story on NPR's "Morning Edition" about a study led by alumna Kristy Kroeker on the role that eelgrass beds might play in mitigating the effects of ocean acidification. The story was reposted on public radio station news sites around the country.
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Supersonic Earthquake Shook Kamchatka
Seismologist Thorne Lay was quoted in stories about a "supersonic" earthquake in Kamchatka in Scientific American, LiveScience, and Tech Media.
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Stoking a passion for science
Astronomer Raja Guhathakurta, director of the UCSC Student Internship Program, was featured in a Palo Alto Weekly cover story about high school students doing summer internships in research labs in the region.
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Make Way for Whales
Marine biologist Asha de Vos was interviewed about her research on Sri Lankan blue whales in Slate and New Scientist. The Sri Lanka Sunday Times also ran a story about her research.
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‘Supermoon’ will rise on Saturday
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in a story on SFGate about the "supermoon" on Saturday night, and Laughlin's comments were picked up nationally by Mashable, NPR blog "The Two-Way," and other news sites.