UCSC in the News

News that literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita was nominated for a 2010 National Book Award was reported in media across the country, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Minnesota Public Radio, Washington Post, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Professor emerita of American Studies Judy Yung was interviewed on National Public Radio’s "Talk of the Nation" about her new book, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America, the first comprehensive history of the immigration station known as "the Ellis Island of the West." The Asian Reporter also ran a story on the book.

Astronomer Garth Illingworth is quoted in an article about the James Webb Space Telescope project in the October issue of Scientific American. Illingworth was also quoted in news stories about the most distant galaxy in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press, Popular Science, and Science Now.

Engineering dean Art Ramirez and computer sciencist Noah Wardrip-Fruin were quoted in a story about the Baskin School of Engineering's Research Review Day in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News.

The Sentinel also ran a story about "Human Conditions," an art exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery drawn from the private collection of UCSC arts division dean David Yager, quoting curator Shelby Graham.

Biologist Dan Costa's research using elephant seals to map the seafloor around Antarctica was covered in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Toronto Star, UPI, PhysOrg.com, and the "Daily Planet" program on Discovery Channel Canada.

The Santa Cruz Good Times ran a feature story on Grateful Dead archivist Nicholas Meriwether, in honor of an upcoming concert to raise funds for McHenry Library’s Grateful Dead Archive.

Medgadget ran a story about research on retinal neurons using a neural recording device developed by physicists Alan Litke and Alexander Sher.

Praise for paintings by art professor Frank Galuszka, whose work was part of a September show at the New York Studio School, appeared in NY Artbeat