UCSC in the News

Seismologist Thorne Lay's research on the 2009 Samoa-Tonga earthquake received widespread news coverage, including an interview on KCBS radio and stories in the New York Times, Boston Globe, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Nature, Science News, Scientific American, Wired News, MSNBC, AP, BBC News, Daily Mail (U.K.), Australian, Deseret News, Salt Lake City Standard-Examiner, Asian News International, Thaindian News, Live Science, Softpedia, and Red Orbit.

Astronomer Steven Vogt was featured in a front-page story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the new Automated Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory.

A San Francisco Chronicle article about the Angel Island Immigration Station's 100th anniversary cited the "must-own volume Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940," co-authored by American Studies professor emerita Judy Yung, as well as her new book Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America, describing it as "the most comprehensive history of the place and its period to date."

Professor of literature Susan Gillman appeared on KQED public radio's "Forum" program (SF Bay Area) to discuss Mark Twain and race.

Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in stories in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel about algal blooms in Pinto Lake.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about education researchers Betty Achinstein and Rodney Ogawa receiving a grant to study successful teaching strategies for Latino high school students. The paper also noted the economics department was ranked highly for research in international economics.


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