Media Coverage
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UCSC astrophysicist lands lucrative prize for young professors
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about astrophysicist Charlie Conroy, who won a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Coverage also included stories in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Patch.
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Newsom, ACLU look to legalize marijuana
Sociology professor Craig Reinarman was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and the American Civil Liberties Union opening a campaign to legalized marijuana in California.
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Earth's super-siblings grew up very differently
Planetary scientist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a New Scientist article about the formation of "super-Earth" planets.
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Sun turns dirty water into clean fuel
Coverage of a solar-microbial device for producing hydrogen fuel, developed by a team led by chemist Yat Li, included stories from Nanotechnology Now, Santa Cruz Sentinel, ChemEurope, Technology News, Chemical Engineering Progress, Breakthrough Technology Alert, Nature World News, Science Daily, PhysOrg, RedOrbit, EarthSky, Product Design & Development, Science World Report, Business Standard, FuelCellsWorks, Indian Express,…
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Banning Lead Ammunition Could Give Condors a Chance
Environmental toxicologist Myra Finkelstein was quoted in stories from National Geographic News and KQED Science about California's new ban on the use of lead bullets by hunters.
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Young Mountain Lion Caught on Camera Teasing Its Captured Brother
An article in Wired featured the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project which had captured a young male mountain lion in a trap. Later a nearby motion-sensing camera showed his presumed litter mate investigating the trapped sibling.
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'It's heartbreaking': Shutdown could ruin years of Antarctic research
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk is featured in a story from NBC News, Discovery News, Yahoo News, and LiveScience about how years of work by his team on the WISSARD project in Antarctica is in danger of being wasted as a result of the federal government shutdown.
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Yellen expected to be tapped as Fed chief Wednesday
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted economics professor Carl Walsh in an article on the expected nomination of Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve Board. The same article was also published by the Davis Enterprise.
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Rich People Just Care Less
A New York Times opinion writer quoted Tom Pettigrew, emeritus professor of psychology, in an piece about how people with the most social power pay scant attention to those with little such power.
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Panel links underwater mapping sonar to whale stranding for first time
Marine biologist Brandon Southall chaired an independent review panel that found sonar was responsible for a mass stranding of melon-headed whales. He was quoted in stories about the findings in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Guardian, Japan Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Anchorage Daily News, Brisbane Times, and other outlets.
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Sudan's struggle for peace
An analysis of the context of recent protests in Sudan by Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics, was published on the Middle East Channel of Foreign Policy. Masoud's recent book, Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan (Cambridge University Press, 2013) is based on 15 months of research in Sudan.
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Renowned Africa scholar John A. Marcum dies at 86
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an obituary on John Marcum, emeritus professor of politics and former provost of Merrill College, who died September 12.