Garrison Keillor, host of A Prairie Home Companion, read a poem by humanities lecturer Gary Young on The Writer’s Almanac, his daily radio program broadcast to over 300 public radio stations around the country.
Research on the social behavior of desert lizards led by former grad student Alison Davis was covered by Discovery News, Der Spiegel magazine, U.S. News & World Report, MSNBC.com, UPI, Live Science, Science Centric, and the Hindu.
The Los Angeles Times covered the discovery by ocean scientist Raphael Kudela and wildlife veterinarian Melissa Miller that sea otters have been poisoned by a freshwater toxin.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Shakespeare Santa Cruz artistic director Marco Barricelli, a longtime American Conservatory Theater audience favorite, will direct Chekhov's The Three Sisters, performed by second- and third-year MFA candidates at ACT's Hastings Studio Theater in San Francisco.
A Contra Costa Times columnist noted that Shakespeare Santa Cruz's closing performance of The Lion in Winter was "without hesitation one of the finest performances I have ever attended.”
Marine scientists Guy Oliver and Don Croll were quoted in stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and AOL News about a dead blue whale that washed up on a beach near Pescadero.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel also:
• Ran a front page story about the opening of the new shark tank at the Seymour Center.
• Covered the UCSC Expanding Your Horizons conference for high school girls.
• Quoted Politics Department Chair Dan Wirls in an article on the California lieutenant governor's race.
• Reported that UCSC alumna Reyna Grande is gaining recognition for her second novel, Dancing with Butterflies, which recently received the 2010 International Latino Book Award, Best Women's Issues.
