UCSC in the news, 2012
December
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January 03, 2013 - Sacramento BeeDiscoveries: UC Santa Cruz's Grateful Dead archive very alive
The Sacramento Bee published a story about the UC Santa Cruz Grateful Dead Archive, featuring an interview with the Library’s Grateful Dead Archivist, Nicholas Meriwether.
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December 09, 2012 - WarscapesEye on Honduras
History professor Dana Frank was interviewed in the indpendent online magazine, Warscapes, about the current situation in Honduras, which has remained volatile and extremely violent since the ouster of democratically elected president José Manuel Zelaya. -
December 07, 2012 - San Jose Mercury NewsUCSC film alumna wins HBO filmmaker award
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about UCSC alumna Kimberly Bautista, a 2009 graduate of the Social Documentation Program who was named the winner of the 2012 HBO and National Association of Latino Independent Producers Documentary Film Award. The story also appeared on a variety of websites, including Bay Area Roots, TV Balla, and I4Unews. -
December 18, 2012 - San Francisco ChronicleSandra Faber wins National Medal of Science
President Obama's selection of UCSC astronomer Sandra Faber to receive the National Medal of Science (see press release) was the subject of an article in the San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate. The honor was also covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, and Silicon Valley Business Journal. -
December 21, 2012 - Science FridayCould life exist on newfound alien planet?
Steve Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, was interviewed on the NPR program Science Friday about the discovery of five possible planets orbiting around Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, about 12 light years from Earth. One of the planets lies within Tau Ceti's habitable zone. -
December 18, 2012 - ABC NewsAstronomers discover habitable planet around nearby star
News that professor Steve Vogt and an international team of scientists have discovered at least one new habitable planet relatively nearby attracted widespread media attention internationally. Stories were filed by ABC News, NBC, CBS, Scientific American, Freakonomics.com, ScienceNow, Huffington Post, Mashable, Gizmodo, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Contra Costa Times, among others, and Vogt was interviewed on KSBW, KION, and other local TV news programs.
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December 18, 2012 - Live ScienceIs It OK for the girl to propose? No way, study suggests
An article in the Journal of Adolescent Research by psychology doctoral candidate Rachael Robnett attracted Internet attention after Live Science, posted a story. Separate articles appeared on the Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan.com, andthe blog jezebel, that contributed its own snarky take. Men's Health weighed in as did a columnist for the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
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December 18, 2012 - Associated PressConservationists team up with ranchers, loggers
An Associated Press article on conservation easements included quotes from environmental studies professor Daniel Press and Peter Stein, a UCSC alumnus, who is managing director of Lyme Timber Co. an investment company involved in negotiating easements. The article was published widely across the nation in dozens of newspapers and on websites, including U.S. News and World Report, Washington Post and Denver Post. -
December 18, 2012 - Science BlogWhich bat's the better pollinator?
Research by biologists Winifred Frick and Kathleen Kay on the bat pollinators of cardon cactus in Baja California was covered by Science Blog, Science Daily, BrightSurf, Science Newsline, and Science Codex.
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December 18, 2012 - Santa Cruz SentinelHundreds of Humboldt squid wash up on Aptos area beaches
Biologist Baldo Marinovic commented on the Humboldt squid that washed up on Central Coast beaches in stories on KSBW TV and in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Huffington Post, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald, Contra Costa Times, and Inside Bay Area.
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December 18, 2012 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz team harnessing sunlight
Research on an innovative "sun to fiber" optical device led by electrical engineer Nobby Kobayashi was covered by Laser Focus World, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Aptos Times.
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December 18, 2012 - San Jose Mercury News
Biggest tides of the year set to hit California
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a widely published San Jose Mercury News article about this month's "king tides." The story ran in the Sacramento Bee, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Miami Herald, Inside Bay Area, and other media.
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December 18, 2012 - Ars TechnicaPortal's physics engine rebuilt...on a graphing calculator
The Ars Technica "gadgets" blog marveled at the achievement of computer game design major Alex Marcolina, who rebuilt the popular game Portal to work on a graphing calculator, and Venture Beat ran an interview with Marcolina.
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December 18, 2012 - R&D MagazineEmerging vector-borne diseases create public health challenge
Biologist Marm Kilpatrick's findings on the emergence of vector-borne diseases around the world were covered by R&D magazine, Infection Control Today, Medical Express, HealthCanal, RedOrbit, Science Codex, and OnMedica.
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December 18, 2012 - National GeographicThe transporter: Cloud banks carry mercury
Research by environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias on mercury in coastal fog was covered by National Geographic, Scientific American, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald Pasadena Star-News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Environmental Protection, RedOrbit, PhysOrg, and Science Codex.
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December 18, 2012 - San Jose Mercury News
Ethics Bowl comes to UC Santa Cruz
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories on a state regional Ethics Bowl tournament, hosted for the very first time on the UC Santa Cruz campus by the Humanities Division's Philosophy Department.
November
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December 18, 2012 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Poet Adrienne Rich balanced world-wide fame with a regular Santa Cruz life
Feminist Studies professor Bettina Aptheker was quoted extensively in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about a memorial for acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich. -
December 18, 2012 - Friatidnengen (Stockholm, Sweden)
Swedish weekly quotes Dana Frank on Honduras
Sweden's weekly newspaper Friatidnengen, based in Stockholm, published comments from history professor Dana Frank about the political situation in Honduras three years after the coup. Frank was also interviewed by Al Jazeera. -
December 18, 2012 - The New YorkerFollowing the Grateful Dead over the decades
A story about the Grateful Dead in the New Yorker magazine noted that Nicholas Meriwether is the curator of the Grateful Dead Archive which the band had donated to UC Santa Cruz. An article about the Grateful Dead Archive and Meriwether also appeared in the journal, American Scholar. -
December 18, 2012 - Los Angeles TimesSikh religion joining California universities' curriculum: UC Santa Cruz is the latest to offer a course.
The Los Angeles Times published a feature story on the new Sikh and Punjabi Studies program in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The article was also picked up by the Sacramento Bee. -
December 18, 2012 - San Jose Mercury News
UC Santa Cruz launches doctorate program in feminist studies
Stories about UCSC's new Ph.D. program in Feminist Studies were featured in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel -
December 18, 2012 - Natural History
Into the Blue Serengeti
Biologist Daniel Costa's research on the migrations of top predators in the Pacific Ocean was featured in an article in Natural History magazine.
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December 18, 2012 - GigaOmWhy data is the key to better medicine--and maybe a cure for cancer
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in a GigaOm article about applications of "big data" in medicine. The Washington Post also ran the story.
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December 18, 2012 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz program receives generous gift from the father of fiber optics
The gift from Narinder Kapany to fund an endowed chair in entrepreneurship was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey County Herald, and Laser Focus World.
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December 18, 2012 - R&D Magazine
BioMAP could streamline search for new antibiotics
The BioMAP screening procedure for antibiotic discovery developed in biochemist Roger Linington's lab was covered by R&D magazine, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Medical News Today, Health News, Bio-Medicine, Science Daily, Infection Control Today, and Medical Express.
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December 18, 2012 - Science Now
Glimmer of Hope for Fungus-Stricken Bats
There's very little good news with white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease spreading across the United States and Canada. But today researchers report online in Ecology Letters that one species of bat is reducing the risk of extinction with individual bats hibernating alone rather than in large groups. -
December 18, 2012 - New York TimesA Planet ‘Just Right’ for Life? Perhaps, if It Exists
Forget about whether it can harbor life. Right now astronomers can’t agree whether a potential “Goldilocks” exoplanet even exists.
October
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December 18, 2012 - IndieWireB. Ruby Rich on the Identity Politics of 'Cloud Atlas'
IndieWire featured UCSC Film and Digital Media professor B. Ruby Rich discussing the new release "Cloud Atlas" with Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum. -
December 18, 2012 - Sacramento News & Review
Skeleton Keys: A four-part Día del los Muertos-themed opera uses multimedia, music, dance, art...
The Sacramento News & Review interviewed Film and Digital Media assistant professor John Jota Leaños for a feature story about Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta, his bilingual multi-media opera. -
December 18, 2012 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
New Orleans through the eyes of Lewis Watts
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an interview with art professor Lewis Watts about his research, photographs of New Orleans and Cuba, and upcoming exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery.
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December 18, 2012 - San Jose Mercury News
Author returns to Santa Cruz with new memoir
The San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories about alumna Reyna Grande and her new memoir of immigration, including quotes from Grande’s former teacher, literature professor Micah Perks, who is co-director of the UCSC Creative Writing Program. -
December 18, 2012 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC team helping doctors target cancer
Research on proton radiography led by physicists Robert Johnson and Hartmut Sadrozinsky was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and MedGadget. -
December 18, 2012 - WiredDeep Sea Hydrology Bolsters Case for a Hidden Biosphere
Hydrologist Andy Fisher was featured in a Wired news story about his research on water flow and microbial life beneath the seafloor.
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December 18, 2012 - The AtlanticA Virtual Trip: New Grateful Dead Digital Archive Launches
No band deserves an online archive more than the Grateful Dead. As much lifestyle as musical outfit, the Dead influenced millions through their concerts and songs. A few years ago, the band selected the University of California Santa Cruz as the host for its history, and now the first fruits of that decision are available for consumption. The Grateful Dead Online Archive is now live. -
December 18, 2012 - NPRSpray Lights Up The Chemical That Causes Poison Ivy Rash
Rebecca Braslau and her colleagues describe a nontoxic spray that will fluoresce in the presence of urushiol. Braslau has gotten the rash more times than she'd care to remember. She knows how to avoid the plants herself, but she has a problem. "My husband's a geologist."
September
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September 14, 2012 - SF Chronicle
We must invest in our public universities
Our public universities are in trouble. Nationwide, they produce 70 percent of our college graduates. Yet, from coast to coast, unrelenting state budget cuts threaten the quality of our leading institutions, even as they force students and families to dig deeper and borrow more to pay the tuition. -
September 14, 2012 - Yahoo NewsCollege Students: Serve Us Real Food, Please
Alexandra Villegas knew the state of California already requires colleges and universities to work toward procuring 20 percent "real food" by 2020, so she raised the standard on her campus. As a senior at the University of California Santa Cruz, Villegas successfully lobbied her dining director and administrators to commit to procuring 40 percent real food by 2020. The school's chancellor signed the commitment in February. -
September 14, 2012 - Mercury News
UC Santa Cruz scientists part of 'Dream Team'
Biomolecular engineers Josh Stuart and David Haussler were featured in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News about their work on a cancer research "Dream Team" funded by Stand Up To Cancer.
