A 2007 PLoS paper on the evolutionary origins of synapses was all over the news, including Newsweek, Fox News, The Scientist, a radio interview on NPR, the front page of the Santa Barbara News Press, and numerous blogs. I've linked a few of the sites on the paper's abstract site.
PI-Oakley won an NSF-CAREER Award. News of this was published in the Santa Barbara News Press, and a few other places.
Press Release from our 2006 PNAS article on gene expression evolution and gene duplication
The creationists are at it again, this time commenting on our 06 PNAS paper. I'm always amused to see how they twist logic to suit their cause. (Actually, the site provides a good source of recent literature on evolution, and the comments are often good for a laugh - almost like reading the Onion).
This table from the
New York Times ranks UCSB among the nation's elite research
universitites.
This article
on Oakley's eye evolution research appeared in BBC Wildlife
Magazine
This article on Oakley's
eye evolution research appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald in August
1999, Australia's largest newspaper
Our PNAS article was picked up by the
Creationist and Intellegent Design media. In particular, they took out
of context one sentence from the abstract of the paper:
