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December

December 29, 2014 - Democracy Now!
'The Interview' Belittles North Korea, But is Film’s Backstory and U.S. Policy the Real Farce?

Assistant professor of literature Christine Hong, an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, was featured on Democracy Now! about President Obama's response to North Korea over the cyber hacking of Sony due to the Seth Rogen/James Franco comedy film, The Interview. Hong's commentary on this issue was also reported by the Institute for Public Accuracy, Free Speech TV, and Truthout.org, and she additionally contributed a piece to Global Research.
December 20, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC art and science researchers partner to save Joshua tree

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News ran a story about a collaboration between UC Santa Cruz art research associate Geoffrey Thomas and environmental studies graduate studenti Juniper Harrower, focusing on their study of the Joshua tree, a desert plant in peril.
December 26, 2014 - CBS News
The biggest astronomy stories of 2014

Astronomer Jason Prochaska was featured in coverage of the top astronomy stories of 2014 from CBS News, Space.com, Yahoo News, MSN, and others.
December 23, 2014 - Good Times
Sea Star Die-off Baffles Scientists

Biologists Melissa Redfield and Melissa Miner were quoted in a Good Times story about sea star wasting syndrome.
December 23, 2014 - Discovery News
Antarctic Seals May Navigate by Earth's Magnetic Field

Terrie Williams is quoted in coverage of her team's research on Weddell seals in Antarctica, including stories from LiveScience, Discovery News, Yahoo News, and PhysOrg.
December 22, 2014 - NBC News
NuSTAR Probe Captures a Sizzling X-Ray View of the Sun

Physicist David Smith was quoted in widespread coverage of a new image of x-ray emissions from the sun obtained by NASA's NuStar probe, including stories from NBC News, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, Discovery News, Huffington Post, Christian Science Monitor, BBC News, Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Register, Nature World News, LiveScience, Buzz Feed, Space.com, Astronomy, Space Ref, and UPI.
December 22, 2014 - Bio-IT World
Nanopore Sequencing Is Here to Stay

Biomolecular engineers David Deamer and Mark Akeson are featured in a story about nanopore sequencing in Bio-IT World.
December 19, 2014 - Slate
We Really Need to Explore Europa

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a Slate story about the Lake Whillans subglacial drilling project in Antarctica.
December 18, 2014 - Toronto Star
Computer taught how to read human genome

Biologist Jeremy Sanford was quoted in a story in the Toronto Star about a computer tool that uses machine learning to analyze the human genome.
December 17, 2014 - Technology Review
Geneticists Begin Tests of an Internet for DNA

Biomolecular engineer David Haussler is featured in a story in MIT Technology Review about efforts by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health to build the infrastructure for sharing genomic data.
December 14, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
UC trumps Stanford in pushing entrepreneurship, QB3 head says

UC Santa Cruz and David Haussler make a notable appearance in a wide-ranging interview with QB3 head Regis Kelly in the San Francisco Chronicle.
December 15, 2014 - Time
Saving old information can boost memory for new information

Time online and several other publications and websites wrote about a study on technology and memory that psychology professor Benjamin Storm published in the journal Psychological Science. Others covering the study include Science Daily, Economic Times, Huffington Post (UK), and Geek.com.
December 16, 2014 - Daily Mail
The secret of a winning racehorse uncovered

Biologists Dan Chang and Beth Shapiro were quoted in media coverage of their research on the genetic changes involved in the domestication of horses, including stories from the Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Science, The Nation, Yahoo News, Xinhua, Global Post, China Post, International Business Times, Tech Times, Terra Daily, Science Daily, PhysOrg, and others.
December 16, 2014 - Scientific American
Fact or Fiction?: The Explosive Death of Eta Carinae Will Cause a Mass Extinction

Astrophysicist Stan Woosley was quoted in a Scientific American article about the fate of the nearby star Eta Carinae.
December 13, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
When it comes to DNA, crocodiles and birds flock together

Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in a Los Angeles Times story about genomic research on the evolution of birds and crocodiles.
December 14, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
Grant to let scientists monitor global warming at UC reserves

Biologists Barry Sinervo and Laurel Fox were quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about the grant they received to study the ecological effects of climate change in California.
December 14, 2014 - National Public Radio
More Than Just Cute, Sea Otters Are Superheroes Of The Marsh

Biologist Brent Hughes was featured in a story on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" about his research on sea otters in Elkhorn Slough, which aired on public radio stations across the country.
December 11, 2014 - National Geographic
New Family Tree Illuminates 'Big Bang' in Bird Evolution After Dinosaur Extinction

Biomolecular engineer Ed Green was quoted in media coverage of genomic studies of bird evolution, including his research on crocodile genomes, including stories from National Geographic News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Yahoo News, Bloomberg News, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Irish Examiner, Science Daily, Terra Daily, Scientific Computing, PhysOrg, Science Codex, and others.
December 11, 2014 - Live Science
Short Talk Can Change People’s Views on Marriage of Same-Sex Couples

Livescience asked psychology professor Phillip Hammack for comment in an article about a study that showed how attitudes toward gay marriage may change when one is asked about it by an openly gay person.
November 12, 2014 - Education Week
Common-Core Math Standards Put New Focus on English-Learners

Education Week talked with education professor Judit Moschkovich for an article on best practices for teaching common core math to English learners.
December 11, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz to lead climate change project

Biologist Barry Sinervo is quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the newly funded UC institute to study climate change impacts in California, which Sinervo will lead.
December 11, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC duo designs children’s speech therapy game

Computer engineers Sri Kurniawan and Zak Rubin are featured in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about their work on an animated computer game that provides speech therapy for children who have had cleft palate surgery.
December 11, 2014 - Wired
The Fastest Stars in the Universe May Approach Light Speed

Astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz was quoted in an article in Wired about superfast stars and merging black holes.
December 10, 2014 - Nature
Ocean biology: Marine dreams

Biologist Rita Mehta was quoted in an article in Nature about careers in marine biology.
November 30, 2014 - Live Science
Dreams of Murder May Signal Real-Life Aggression

Emeritus professor of sociology Bill Domhoff was tapped to provide an alternate view in a Live Science article on research about people who dream of committing murder. The report was picked up by other blogs.
November 23, 2014 - KALW
As organic farming has grown and gone mainstream, how has it changed?

Social sciences professor Julie Guthman was the featured interview on “Your Call,” a call-in public affairs radio program broadcast on KALW in San Francisco and KUSP in Santa Cruz.
December 03, 2014 - ABC News
California Nuke Plant Key in Quake Safety Review

Daniel Hirsch, lecturer in nuclear policy, was quoted in an Associated Press article on the San Onofre nuclear power plant that was used by ABC News among others.
November 20, 2014 - CNBC
After recession, wave of 'accidental' entrepreneurs

Economics department chair Rob Fairlie was featured in a CNBC report on the growth of entrepreneurs as a result of the great recession.
September 21, 2014 - New York Times
A Believer in Vacant Lots, Urban Farming’s Grande Dame: Karen Washington

Karen Washington, a graduate of the Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, was featured in a New York Times article after she won a James Beard Foundation leadership Award.
December 08, 2014 - The Washington Post
Challenge for protesters in wake of police killings: Turning anger, grief into action

Acting Dean of the Arts and History of Art and Visual Culture professor Martin Berger was quoted in a Washington Post story about the rapidly growing social movement that began four months ago after the fatal shooting by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
December 09, 2014 - Science News
'Tis the season for white-nose syndrome in bats

Biologist Kate Langwig was quoted in a Science News article about her research on white-nose syndrome in bats.
December 09, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC sea otter surpasses age record, earns keep

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about sea otter Taylor's 21st birthday, with quotes from trainer Courtney Ribeiro-French and biologist Nicole Thometz.
December 04, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC researchers link bat epidemic to hibernation

Biologists Kate Langwig and Marm Kilpatrick were quoted in coverage of their research on white-nose syndrome in bats, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Red Orbit, PhysOrg, Science 2.0, Science Codex, Press News, and other media outlets.
December 01, 2014 - San Francisco Examiner
‘Lost Landscapes’ address S.F.’s future

The San Francisco Examiner ran a story about flm and digital media professor Rick Prelinger and his annual feature-length theater presentation of rare, rescanned film clips of classic San Francisco footage.
December 01, 2014 - The Scientist
A Race Against Extinction

Disease ecologist Marm Kilpatrick published an article about deadly wildlife pathogens that are devastating animal populations around the world, including white-nose syndrome in bats, west nile virus in birds, and chytridiomycosis in amphibians.
December 01, 2014 - Mongabay
Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals

Paleoecologists Paul Koch and Justin Yeakel were quoted in a story on Mongabay about their research on ancient Egyption ecosystems.

November

November 23, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz student-run free health clinic increasingly popular

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about community health clinics organized by the UC Santa Cruz student-run group, Community Aid and Resources or CARe.
November 19, 2014 - The Huffington Post
Sit-Down Strike at Walmart and Win? It's Been Done

History professor Dana Frank contributed an op-ed to The Huffington Post about a sit-down strike at a Walmart store in Los Angeles, protesting Walmart's retaliation against co-workers who spoke out for a $15 wage and for stable, full-time hours.
November 18, 2014 - Discovery News
Tagging Marks Many Animals for Death

Biologist Daniel Costa was quoted in a Discovery News article about a study showing that acoustic tags scientists use to track fish can attract predators such as seals to the tagged fish.
November 14, 2014 - The Christian Science Monitor
Walmart workers prepare for 'huge' Black Friday protests

The Christian Science Monitor and the San Diego Free Press quoted history professor Dana Frank about income inequality in stories about the first in-store sit-down strike in Walmart history. Yahoo News also picked up the story.
November 11, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
Theater: Bay Area theater finally has its own awards

The San Francisco Chronicle published a story about the inaugural Theatre Bay Area awards celebration, noting that the "redoubtable" professor of theater arts Danny Scheie won for outstanding performance by a male actor for The Comedy of Errors at California Shakespeare Theater.
November 09, 2014 - KUSP Radio
Molecular Biologist Sofie Salama: The Story of Jumping Genes

Molecular biologist Sofie Salama was interviewed on KUSP's "7th Avenue Project" about her research on jumping genes.
November 10, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Can Cirque du Soleil top itself with 'Kurios'?

The San Jose Mercury News quoted theater arts professor Patty Gallagher in a story about Cirque du Soleil.
November 16, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
Seymour Center a window into world of ocean research

The Seymour Marine Discovery Center was featured in a cover story for a special section on Santa Cruz in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, with quotes from director Julie Barrett Heffington and aquarium curator Peter Macht.
November 17, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Massive starfish die-off in Pacific Ocean linked to mystery virus

Biologist Pete Raimondi was quoted in widespread media coverage of the discovery of a virus linked to sea star wasting disease, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Verge, LiveScience, Seattle Times, National Geographic News, Nature, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Associated Press, KQED, KSBW, and dozens of other media outlets around the country.
November 17, 2014 - Science Daily
Evolutionary constraints revealed in diversity of fish skulls

Biologist Rita Mehta was quoted in stories about her research on the evolutionary diversity of fish in Science Daily, Science Newsline, PhysOrg, Science 2.0, and other media sources.
November 17, 2014 - BBC World Service
Food and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Anthropology professor Melissa Caldwell was interviewed at length for the Food Chain programme on BBC World about food in former communist countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
November 11, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC welcomes first-generation college students

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a luncheon honoring two dozen UC Santa Cruz students who are the first in the families to attend a four-year university and also three non-profit oraganizations that help them succeed in college.
November 11, 2014 - Science
Fukushima radiation nears California coast, judged harmless

Dan Hirsch, a lecturer in nuclear policy, was quoted in a Science article about radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
November 10, 2014 - Yahoo Finance
10 big data projects that could help save the planet

The UC Santa Cruz Puma Project was one of 10 big data projects highlighted in a Tech Republic article published by Yahoo Finance.
November 10, 2014 - Register
Kryder's law craps out: Race to uber-cheap storage is over

Research on trends in data storage by computer science graduate student Preeti Gupta was quoted in an article about the cost of data storage in The Register (U.K.).
November 12, 2014 - Good Times Weekly
Sound of Silence

The Santa Cruz Good Times Weekly interviewed music professor Larry Polansky about Eye Music, a four-day UCSC festival performed in American Sign Language that he curated, featuring nationally renowned Deaf poets and performing artists.
November 07, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Grateful Dead: An early Silicon Valley startup

The San Jose Mercury News, siliconvalley.com, Bloomberg Businessweek, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about a conference to study the cultural and business legacy of the Grateful Dead, noting the event was the inspiration of Nicholas Meriwether, founding Grateful Dead archivist at UC Santa Cruz, and Michael Parrish, dean of the College of Science at San Jose State University.
November 09, 2014 - Washington Post
Navy war games face suit over impact on whales, dolphins

Marine scientist Brandon Southall was quoted in a Washington Post article about the effects of naval exercises on marine mammals.
November 07, 2014 - Reuters
Scientist hopes to unlock Ebola's secrets at outbreak's source

Bioinformatics expert Jim Kent was quoted in a Reuters article about research on the Ebola virus. The story ran in dozens of media outlets around the world, including Fox News, Yahoo News, and Daily Mail.
November 03, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
'Birth of Stars' at UCSC Experimental Theater is a fusion of art and science

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Contra Costa Times ran a feature story about "Birth of Stars," an original new play co-produced by the Theater Arts Department and the Digital Arts and New Media program, and created by a research team of UCSC scholars, students, and artists--quoting Michael Chemers, professor of theater arts and director of DANM, and Mark Krumholz, professor of astronomy and astrophysics.
November 07, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
As species decline, so does research funding

Biologist Terrie Wiliams responded to Sen. Tom Coburn's misrepresentation of her research in an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. Her article was reprinted in several other newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.
November 05, 2014 - Science
Fatter is better for marine mammals

Biologist Dan Costa was quoted in stories about his research on elephant seals in Science magazine, Nature World News, PhysOrg, Science Newsline, Science Daily, and Science World Report.
November 06, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
UC backs off its threat to end funding to Lick Observatory

Astronomer Claire Max was quoted in stories about UC's revised policy regarding funding for Lick Observatory in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Nature, and KION TV.

October

October 29, 2014 - USA Today
America's best colleges for a major in film

A story in USA Today reported that UC Santa Cruz was named one of the country’s best colleges for film majors, ranking #7 in a Top Ten list by College Factual.
October 31, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC professor builds model of low-cost Ebola sensor

Electrical engineer Ali Yanik's research on a low-cost Ebola virus biosensor was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, KION-TV, KPIX-TV, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, Bioscience Technology, Sensors, Medical Xpress, and other media outlets.
October 28, 2014 - New York Times
A new push to get low-income students through college

UC Santa Cruz was mentioned in a New York Times article as a university where low-income students graduate at a high rate and with manageable debt.
October 29, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC Middle East conflict lectures spark debate

A class that explores conflicts in the Middle East was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article.
October 26, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Toni Morrison lecture attracts full house to Santa Cruz's Rio Theatre

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered Toni Morrison's talk that was part of Founders Celebration.
October 23, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Harvest festival brings 300 students to UCSC farm

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article on the Food What! Harvest Festival at the UC Santa Cruz farm.
October 23, 2014 - LA StreetsBlog
Four CA colleges win 2014 Bicycle Friendly University awards

StreetsBlog LA blog made note of UC Santa Cruz receiving a silver award for being bicycle friendly.
October 25, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC talks showcase data, environment, justice research

The Santa Cruz Sentinel attended and wrote about the Social Sciences Research Frontiers Day.
October 16, 2014 - Guardian
California's drought creates an unexpected casualty: sports

UC Santa Cruz was one of the focuses in an article on California's drought published in the U.S. edition of the UK publication Guardian.
October 11, 2014 - examiner.com
New and old players evolve with organic foods

A columnist for examiner.com wrote about the organic food industry by focusing on social sciences professor Julie Guthman's book, Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California.
October 26, 2014 - The Seattle Times
U.S. has hand in Honduran mess: A Latin America specialist says the U.S. shares blame for children crossing into the country from Central America

The Seattle Times featured a story about history professor Dana Frank and her research on Honduras, noting that things have gotten even worse since Frank had an opinion piece published in the New York Times two years ago with the headline warning: “In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U.S.”
October 24, 2014 - Live Science
US-Funded Research a Waste? Scientists Refute ‘Wastebook’ Criticism

Biologist Terrie Williams is among the scientists quoted in a Live Science article refuting Senator Tom Coburn's criticisms of NSF funding for basic scientific research.
October 25, 2014 - NBC News
Worldwide Surge in 'Great' Earthquakes Seen in Past 10 Years

Seismologist Thorne Lay was featured in a NBC News story on great earthquakes and the risk of a major quake on the Cascadia fault in the Pacific Northwest.
October 18, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC professor honored for prison research

Psychology and legal studies professor Craig Haney, selected to deliver the Faculty Research Lecture, was the focus of a Santa Cruz Sentinel advance story on the 2014 Founders Celebration. The San Jose Mercury News and Contra Cost Times posted it online.
October 17, 2014 - Marketwatch
25 years after Bay Area quake, most don't have earthquake insurance

Marketwatch reporter Daniel Goldstein (Stevenson, '94, politics) set the scene for his Loma Prieta earthquake anniversary article at Stevenson College with quotes from alumni. The article was re-published by a variety of outlets including Yahoo Finance.
October 17, 2014 - The Washington Post
Indonesian puppetry and a festival of West Javanese culture

Theater Arts professor Kathy Foley was featured in The Washington Post and Jakarta Press about a performance and conference at the Smithsonian on theater that is traditional to the Sundanese culture of West Java, Indonesia. Foley was also interviewed by Voice of America radio about contemporary Indonesian performance.
October 22, 2014 - Nature
Outbreak of great quakes underscores Cascadia risk

Seismologist Thorne Lay was featured in coverage of his analysis of recent great earthquakes and their implications for earthquake risk in the Pacific Northwest, including stories in Nature, Science Daily, Science Newsline, and other media outlets.
October 19, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Law students, lawyers help UC Santa Cruz students avoid deportation

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a page one feature on a legal clinic for students on campus under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
October 03, 2014 - APA Monitor
Incarceration nation

Psychology professor Craig Haney was featured in an article in the American Psychological Association's Monitor magazine on the National Research Council's report on incarceration in America.
October 16, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
Gerald Casel uses random acts of choreography in 'Visiter’

Theater Arts Professor of Dance Gerald Casel was interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle about his company's performances of “Visiter” at San Francisco’s Joe Goode Annex.
October 14, 2014 - VentureBeat
UC Santa Cruz taps Journey co-creator Robin Hunicke to teach game development

VentureBeat featured a story about acclaimed game designer Robin Hunicke joining the UC Santa Cruz faculty as Associate Professor of Art & Game Design. Articles also appeared in gamesindustry.biz, Gamasutra, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
October 15, 2014 - Quanta
At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law

Mathematician Harold Widom is featured in a Quanta magazine article about the Tracy-Widom distribution, a strangely universal statistical distribution that Widom codiscovered.
October 16, 2014 - New Scientist
Saturn's moon Mimas might have its own subsurface sea

Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a New Scientist story about research on Saturn's moon Mimas.
October 16, 2014 - Daily Mail
'CT scan' of the universe: 3D animation reveals evolution of galaxies over 10.8 billion years

Astronomer Jason Prochaska was quoted in storiesabout his team's research on the cosmic web in the Daily Mail and the Nation.
October 15, 2014 - Good Times
Dry Valley

Hydrogeologist Andy Fisher is featured in a Good Times Weekly article about groundwater problems in the Pajaro Valley.
October 14, 2014 - PBS Newshour
Can Alaska’s waters be a respite for sick sea stars?

Marine biologists Pete Raimondi and Melissa Miner were featured in a PBS Newshour update on the impact of sea star wasting syndrome on west coast starfish populations.
October 13, 2014 - Chronicle of Higher Education
A New Department Marks the Rise of a Discipline: ‘Computational Media’

Computer scientists Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas were featured in a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the new Department of Computational Media, which was also covered in Technology News and TMCnet.
October 09, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
Big data, meet big money: NIH funds centers to crunch health data

The Los Angeles Times Science section reported on the $32 million National Institutes of Health grant to fund biomedical data sets and noted UC Santa Cruz's prominent role.
October 12, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz puma research demonstrates new high-tech wildlife tracker

Continued coverage of mountain lion research led by biologist Terrie Williams includes stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, Financial Times, Planet Ark, and Qatar Tribune.
October 01, 2014 - Environmental Health News
A perilous journey: Seabird runs gauntlet of hazards on 40,000-mile annual trip

Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela and environmental toxicologist Myra Finkelstein are featured in an article about threats to the sooty shearwater population in Environmental Health News. The story also ran in TruthOut.
October 09, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UCSC genomics center awarded $11 million NIH grant

Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was quoted in coverage of NIH funding for the new Center for Big Data in Translational Genomics in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, Los Angeles Times, BioSpace, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
October 07, 2014 - Good Times
Blue Angel

Marine biologist Asha de Vos was featured in the Good Times Weekly cover story about her research on blue whales and the impact of ship strikes in Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka. Another story in the same issue covers biologist Susan Strome's research on epigenetics, and both stories are cited in an Editor's Note about "UCSC's ever-rising prominence" as a "science powerhouse."
October 09, 2014 - The Irish Times
The double life of the Irish consonant

The Irish Times picked up a story about UC Santa Cruz Linguistics researchers working to document the tongue movement of native Irish speakers utilizing ultrasound in order to help save the endangered language.
October 09, 2014 - Santa Cruz Senteinel
In 'DOC/UNDOC,' artist Felicia Rice and her collaborators bring new dimension to the book

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Good Times Weekly each featured stories about a multi-media book art exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery by alumna artist Felicia Rice (1978, Fine Art Printing) in collaboration with arts professors Gustavo Vazquez, Jennifer Gonzales, and lecturer Zachary Watson, plus MacArthur Fellow, Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
October 08, 2014 - NBC Bay Area
UC Santa Cruz Fighting Ebola With Technology

NBC Bay Area reported on Jim Kent and the genome browser created at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute.
October 02, 2014 - KION
UCSC researchers create Ebola genome browser

KION 46 produced a piece on the Ebola genome browser created by the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. The Santa Cruz Sentinel followed with a story of its own.
September 27, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Thousands hit UCSC for move-in days

The Santa Cruz Sentinel, KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland, and KION 46 and reported on new students moving in to residence halls and the new academic year.
October 03, 2014 - Science News
Climbing high to save a threatened West Coast plant

Arboretum curator Stephen McCabe is featured in a Science News magazine article about his work to save an endangered succulent known as Verity’s liveforever. McCabe and the Arboretum were also featured in recent issues of Fremontia and Horticulture magazines.
October 02, 2014 - CBS Bay Area
'Stalk And Pounce' Hunting Method Of Mountain Lions Dissected By UC Santa Cruz Scientists

Biologist Terrie Williams was quoted in stories about her mountain lion research from KPIX (CBS SF Bay Area), local TV stations KION and KSBW, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, National Geographic, Science, Daily Mail, Reuters, and other media outlets.
October 02, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz student dreams in three dimensions

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of undergraduate Hasti Afsarifard, an economics major with a minor in technology and information management, who is working on 3-D printer technology.
October 01, 2014 - Science
Sticky fingers ground jumping genes

Biologists Frank Jacobs and Sofie Salama were quoted in a story about their research on jumping genes in Science.

September

September 30, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UC Berkeley celebrates free speech movement's 50th anniversary

Feminist Studies Professor Bettina Aptheker was featured in several news articles about the 50th anniversary of the UC Free Speech Movement, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel, plus an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
September 28, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UCSC researchers study endangered Irish language

The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about Linguistics professors Jaye Padgett and Grant McGuire, who received a $260,000 National Science Foundation grant to document the tongue movement of native Irish speakers utilizing ultrasound in order to help save the endangered language. New York's Daily News also picked up the story.
September 29, 2014 - Forbes
Huge Primordial Stars Disappeared Without So Much As A Supermassive Black Hole Left Behind

Astrophysicist Ken Chen's research showing that some ancient stars could have exploded in supernovae that left behind no black hole remnant was covered in Forbes, Science Daily, Daily Mail, Nanowerk, PhysOrg, SciTech Daily, Nature World News, and other media outlets.
September 28, 2014 - National Geographic
The Human Genome Is In Stalemate in the War Against Itself

Research led by biologist Sofie Salama on an evolutionary arms race within the human genome received widespread media coverage, including an online column from National Geographic and stories from Yahoo News, Slash Dot, Medical News Today, Genetic Engineering and Biotech News, Canada Journal, Herald Scotland, Herald Globe (Australia), Cronica Madrid, Jagran Post, Tech Times, Biotechnology Europe, Nature World News, and other media outlets.
September 28, 2014 - ABC News
Will Your Lifestyle Hurt Your Grandchildren?

Biologist Susan Strome's research on epigenetics was featured in a column on ABC News.com.
September 22, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
California otter population growth stalls, shark bites seen as a major problem

Biologist Tim Tinker was quoted in coverage of the annual sea otter population census, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, Capital Public Radio, KCBA-TV, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey Herald, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, Sea Magazine, PhysOrg, Nature World News, and other media outlets.
September 25, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC breaks ground on biology building

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the groundbreaking for the Coastal Biology building. Stories also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and KION news.
September 24, 2014 - Silicon Valley Business Journal
UC meets VC: UC Santa Cruz aims for startup hub with funding, incubator, tech partners

Scott Brandt, vice chancellor for research, was featured in a Silicon Valley Business Journal article about a new UC initiative to invest in startups based on university tech research. The story also ran in Upstart Business Journal.
September 19, 2014 - Silicon Valley Business Journal
Can Santa Cruz turn the tech talent tide? New startup venture aims to poach Highway 17 tech bus commuters

Scott Brandt, UCSC vice chancellor for research, was quoted by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in an article about efforts in Santa Cruz to attract a high-tech work force.
September 17, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Donna Maurillo, Food for Thought: UCSC Farm showing way on sustainability

Santa Cruz Sentinel food columnist Donna Maurillo attended the fourth annual Farm to Fork dinner at the UCSC Farm and she liked what she saw.
September 22, 2014 - Sacramento Bee
Heat, drought cited in massive Mount Shasta mudslide

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a Sacramento Bee article about a mudslide caused by melting glaciers on Mt. Shasta. The story also ran in the San Luis Obispo Tribune.
September 20, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UCSC professor premieres animated short on Pueblo revolt: Goal of film is to spark social change

The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story on the premiere of an animated short film on PBS by Film and Digital Media Professor John Leanos, which uses humor, rap, and comic book style animation to tell a story of revolt in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
September 19, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC study gives clues about genetic expression

Molecular biologist Susan Strome was featured in articles about her lab's findings on epigenetic memory in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, The Scientist, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Medical News Today, Health Canal, PhysOrg, and other media.
September 19, 2014 - Silicon Valley Business Journal
UCSC’s gaming program is nurturing new generations of game developers

Computer scientist Jim Whitehead was quoted in a Silicon Valley Business Journal article about UCSC's programs in computer game design.
September 17, 2014 - Technology Review
Radical New DNA Sequencer Finally Gets into Researchers’ Hands

Biomolecular engineers David Deamer and Mark Akeson and their work on nanopore sequencing are featured in a Technology Review article about the MinION nanopore sequencer introduced by U.K. company Oxford Nanopore.
September 16, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Santa Cruz's Seymour Marine Discovery Center blends fun and education

The San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Inside Bay Area ran a feature story in the travel section about the Seymour Marine Discovery Center.
September 16, 2014 - Scientific American
Earth’s Impending Magnetic Flip

Geophysicist Gary Glatzmaier was featured in a Scientific American article about reversals of the Earth's magnetic field. The story also ran in Salon.
September 13, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Conflicts with Yosemite bears fall dramatically as people, bears learn new lessons

Biologist Jack Hopkins was quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about Yosemite bears that also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Associated Press, and newspapers throughout California and elsewhere.
September 10, 2014 - Good Times Weekly
Illustrated History

The Santa Cruz Good Times ran a profile of alumnus Thom Zajac, a graduate of the UC Santa Cruz creative writing program, who is now celebrating his 30th anniversary as founder and publisher of the Santa Cruz Comic News.
September 11, 2014 - National Geographic
Big Bang Mystery Extends Into Nearby Galaxy, Puzzling Cosmologists

Physicist Joel Primack was quoted in a National Geographic story about the cosmological implications of unexpectedly low measurements of lithium in stars.
September 11, 2014 - Nature
Wildlife energy: Survival of the fittest

Biologist Terrie Williams is featured in a Nature news story about her lab's research on the physiology and energetics of wild animals.
September 08, 2014 - NBC News
Ancient Egyptian Art Opens Window on Mammal Extinctions

Biologist Justin Yeakel's research on extinctions of large mammals over 6,000 years of Egyptian history was covered by NBC News, Smithsonian, LiveScience, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Popular Archaeology, Archaeology magazine, Yahoo News, Oregon Herald, Science Daily, Science Newsline, Tech Times, Science 2.0, International Business Times, UPI, Latin Post, Europa Press, and other national and international media outlets.
September 04, 2014 - KPCC
Sea star population slowly recovers from wasting syndrome

Biologist Pete Raimondi was interviewed about sea star wasting syndrome on southern California public radio station KPCC.
September 03, 2014 - Scientific American
Is There a Future for Wilderness?

Scientific American quoted Michael Soulé, professor emeritus of environmental studies, in a column ruminating on the notion of wilderness in the United States.
August 31, 2014 - Boston Globe
What ‘age segregation’ does to America

Psychology professor Barbara Rogoff was quoted in a Boston Globe article about how we tend to segregate ourselves according to age.
September 02, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz grad Fernando Carrillo is always up for a challenge

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about recent grad Fernando Carrillo who has a paid internship designing game in Silicon Valley.
August 29, 2014 - Scientific American
Ancient DNA Could Return Passenger Pigeons to the Sky

Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in recent stories about efforts to bring back the passenger pigeon, including articles from Scientific American, Sacramento Bee, Kansas City Star, Daily News, Charlotte Observer, and others.
September 02, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Sea stars making a comeback: Researchers study reason for die-off

Biologist Pete Raimondi was quoted in a story about baby sea stars and sea star wasting disease in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, Inside Bay Area, and others.
September 01, 2014 - Seattle Times
Japan hangs on to goal of earthquake prediction

Seismologists Thorne Lay and Emily Brodsky were quoted in a Seattle Times story about earthquake prediction.
September 01, 2014 - Daily Mail
Searching for the sun’s siblings

Astronomer Mark Krumholz was quoted in stories about his research on star clusters in the Daily Mail, Space Ref, Space Daily, ANI, WebIndia, YahooNews, Business Standard, Nanowerk, Science Daily PhysOrg, Red Orbit and other media outlets.

August

September 03, 2014 - Good Times Weekly
Sage Rush

The Santa Cruz Good Times published a profile of humanities lecturer Gary Young, the acclaimed poet and director of UCSC’s Cowell Press, who served as Santa Cruz's first official poet laureate.
August 26, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UCSC alum wins Emmy for HBO's "True Detective"

The San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Contra Costa Times ran a story about 1999 history graduate Cary Fukunaga, who won the 2014 "Outstanding Director for a Drama Series" Emmy Award for the HBO series "True Detective."
August 29, 2014 - Orange County Register
Big surf takes a bite out of beaches

Gary Griggs was quoted in an Orange County Register article about large storm waves removing sand from beaches.
August 27, 2014 - KSBW
UC Santa Cruz undergrads in iGem competition

A team of UCSC undergraduates working on a synthetic biology project were featured on KSBW TV.
August 25, 2014 - Science
Water clouds tentatively detected just 7 light-years from Earth

Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in stories from Science, Discovery News, Gizmodo, and others about the detection of water clouds on a nearby Jupiter-sized object known as a brown dwarf.
August 19, 2014 - New York Times
Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions

Acting Dean of the Arts and History of Art and Visual Culture professor Martin Berger was quoted in the New York Times, as well as The British journal of news and popular culture Spiked, about the photographs coming out of the racially torn suburb of Ferguson and their connections to the images of the civil rights movement. Berger was also interviewed on a nationally televised news program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
August 21, 2014 - Half Moon Bay Review
Cattlemen express concern over mountain lions

Veronica Yovovich, a researcher with the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project, was quoted in a Half Moon Bay Review article on mountain lions killing cattle.
August 21, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC alum reaches finals of military hero contest

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about alumna Veronica Lemus, a senior airman in the Air Force National Guard, who is vying to be named American Hero of the Year. Sadly, the newspaper also wrote about alumnus Gregory Mock who died while hiking in the Kings Canyon area.
August 21, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
Thriving ecosystem of microbes found under Antarctic ice

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about his team's discovery of microbial life in a subglacial lake in Antarctica.
August 18, 2014 - Quanta
At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale

Physicist Michael Dine is quoted in an article in Quanta magazine about new ideas in physics about the fundamental properties of nature.
August 20, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UCSC professor to Assembly: Treat children seeking refuge humanely

The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about History Professor Dana Frank's testimony in Sacramento in favor of a state Assembly resolution calling for humane treatment of the children fleeing from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador and seeking refuge in California.
August 20, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC professor searches for new type of cancer drug

Biochemist Seth Rubin's research to develop new cancer drugs was covered in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Medical News, BioMedicine, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
August 19, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Sunrise ceremony to mark new light shed on coastal Native American history

Rick Flores, a curator at the UCSC Arboretum, was quoted in a story about an agreement between the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and Pie Ranch in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Inside Bay Area.
August 05, 2014 - Santa Cruz Tech Beat
UC Santa Cruz Internet access project wins University of California IT award

Tech Beat published a very well-written article on a team from UC Santa Cruz Information Technology Services winning a UC award for its fiber optic project. The Santa Cruz Sentinel devoted a Coastlines item to the news.
August 16, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
Winning essays take 2 South L.A. students to Dickens conference

The Los Angeles Times published a story about two young women from South Los Angeles, the first students from the LA Unified School District to win a high school essay contest sponsored by the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz, and their experience at the annual Dickens Universe conference on campus.
August 13, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Christina Wang can't help creating

The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled UC Santa Cruz alumna Christina Wang (B.A. Art, 2007), "a multi-disciplinary artist who counts knife-making, illustration, photography, cooking, and building among her artistic accomplishments."
August 17, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal and five others: Bond vital for state students

Chancellor Blumenthal got the byline on an op-ed that appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel
calling for support of a state bond measure for school facilities.
August 13, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC hits $50 million record in private donations

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about UC Santa Cruz posting $50 million in pledges for fiscal year 2014.
August 15, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Drug war critics take in state of Santa Cruz pot scene

The Santa Cruz Sentinel accompanied sociology professor Craig Reinarman and colleague from City University of New York as they visited pot shops in Santa Cruz.
August 15, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz fair showcases research of minority students

Malika Bell, director of STEM diversity programs, and several undergraduates were quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the Summer Research Symposium.
August 14, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz begins building biology center this fall

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about the start of construction for the new Coastal Biology building.
August 18, 2014 - Washington Post
Researchers Race for Rapid Field Tests to Isolate Ebola Patients

Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was quoted in a story from the Washington Post and Bloomberg News about efforts to develop tests for rapid identification of Ebola virus.
August 14, 2014 - R&D
Chip-based platform could simplify measurements of single molecules

Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was quoted in coverage of his lab's optofluidics research in R&D magazine, BioMedicine, Medical Design Technology, Science Daily, PhysOrg, Nanowerk, Science Codex, and others.
August 12, 2014 - ABC Radio National
Is the child migration crisis of the United States' own making?

History professor Dana Frank was quoted in Australia's ABC News for a story about the roots of the Central American child immigration crisis at the U.S. border. Frank was also quoted in the Christian Science Monitor in a story titled "Why Child Migrants Head to the U.S."
August 10, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Bonny Doon artist 'fishes' in his studio for inspiration

The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled alumnus Andrew Ward, who graduated in 1993 with a BA in art, spotlighting his detailed fish sculptures created out of wood or clay, ranging from salmon to humphead wrasse.
August 13, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Summer algebra academy adds up for eighth-graders

Math lecturer Nandini Bhattacharya was quoted in a story about the Algebra Academy for eighth-graders in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
August 12, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Cabrillo engineering camp inspires girls

Charlie McDowell, dean of undergraduate affairs for the Baskin School of Engineering, was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about the Girls in Engineering program.
August 06, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Waves of Grain: Ever-growing grain movement taking root in Santa Cruz County

Grain growing at the UC Santa Cruz Farm was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel food article that included comments from Christof Bernau and Darryl Wong of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and from graduates of the farming apprenticeship.
August 07, 2014 - Atlantic magazine
When Robots Write Songs

The Atlantic magazine spotlighted Emeritus Professor of Music David Cope in a story about work on new algorithms that can produce original compositions in the style of great composers, noting that he designed EMMY, an emulator named for the acronym of his “Experiments in Musical Intelligence” project at UC Santa Cruz.
July 24, 2014 - Readers Digest
23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now

An article in Reader's Digest recommending 23 compelling writers featured Literature Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, noting that "in a fair world, these critically acclaimed authors would be rocking the bestseller list."
July 29, 2014 - Bay Nature
American Kestrel Population Drops Dramatically, And Without Fanfare

Bay Nature followed two volunteer researchers with the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group as they watched kestrels in the Santa Cruz area including on campus.
August 08, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
New cancer classification system shows promise as lifesaver

Biomolecular engineer Josh Stuart was featured in coverage of the pan-cancer study which revealed a new way to classify cancers, including stories in the San Francisco Chronicle (lead story on the front page), Los Angeles Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Fresno Bee, MedScape, Bio-IT, BioSpace, Health Canal, Science Daily, Delhi Daily News, and other media outlets.
August 07, 2014 - Bay Nature
The Scientists are Amateurs, But Their Coastal Research Makes a Splash

Biologist John Pearse was featured in a Bay Nature story about a coastal monitoring program involving high school students.
August 05, 2014 - Herald de Paris
When Freedom Summer Landed in White America’s Living Rooms

History of Art and Visual Culture professor Martin Berger was quoted in a Herald de Paris story about the impact of images from the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The story also ran in Salon.
August 02, 2014 - National Public Radio
James Shigeta 'Led The Way' For Asian-American Lovers On Screen

Professor of Film and Digital Media L.S. Kim was featured on NPR"s syndicated Weekend Edition program in a story about the passing of actor James Shigeta, who broke barriers in film as one of Hollywood's first Asian-American actors to play romantic lead characters.
August 06, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC engineering lab awarded $2.28M grant

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about biomolecular engineer Mark Akeson's research group, which received a major grant for work on a nanopore device for DNA sequencing.
August 04, 2014 - Nature
Seabed samples cast doubt on earthquake risk for Pacific Northwest

Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in news stories from Nature and other outlets about a study of earthquake risks in the Pacific Northwest.
July 31, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
New exhibit at UC Santa Cruz traces the literary roots of the Grateful Dead

The San Jose Mercury News, Inside Bay Area, Contra Costa Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, and KSBW-TV featured stories about a new exhibition on the literary history of the Grateful Dead at the Grateful Dead Archive in McHenry Library. The news also appeared on numerous web sites such as Reddit and Muck Rack.
August 02, 2014 - MSNBC
Gridlock over border crisis continues

Héctor Perla Jr., assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies, appeared on the Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC to discuss the crisis over child immigrants from Central America.
August 02, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Dead anchovies inundate Santa Cruz harbor, leave foul smell

Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela and biologist Baldo Marinovic were quoted in news stories about the large numbers of anchovies in Monterey Bay and the die-off of anchovies in the Santa Cruz harbor, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey Herald, Contra Costa Times, CBS San Francisco, and others.

July

July 30, 2014 - New York Times
The Moon Is (Slightly) Flat, Scientists Say

A study led by planetary scientist Ian Garrick-Bethell on the shape of the moon received widespread media coverage, including stories from the New York Times, BBC News, Mashable, Huffington Post, NBC News, New Scientist, Space.com, NPR Blogs, AFP, International Business Times, Mother Nature News, PhysOrg, Yahoo News, and many other national and international media outlets.
July 21, 2014 - New York Times
More Eyes on the Skies

Astronomer Mike Bolte was quoted in a New York Times article about giant telescope projects, including the Thirty Meter Telescope.
July 27, 2014 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Could the mammoth make a comeback?

Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about the possibility of cloning a woolly mammoth. The story was distributed by Associated Press and ran in several other media outlets.
July 25, 2014 - Ars Technica
Doom co-creator John Romero skeptical of virtual reality “fad”

John Romero, creative director of the games and playable media masters program, is featured in stories from Ars Technica and Games Industry about the changing landscape of video games.
July 23, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Christa Martin: Gene Felice's interactive design

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of interactive artist Gene Felice, who just graduated from UC Santa Cruz's Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) program with a master of fine arts degree.
July 17, 2014 - Democracy Now
U.S. Turns Back on Child Migrants After Its Policies in Guatemala, Honduras Sowed Seeds of Crisis

History professor Dana Frank was interviewed on the national news program Democracy Now, as well as on Fusion TV (a new channel launched by ABC News and Univision), Al Jazeera America news network, the weekly syndicated half-hour news magazine Between the Lines, and The Weekly Wonk digital news magazine about the link between the flood of child refugees at the U.S. border and Washington’s support for a corrupt post-coup government in Honduras.
July 15, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
Young women with sexy social media photos seen as less competent by peers, study shows

A study by psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen and former UC Santa Cruz graduate student Elizabeth Daniels published online in the journal Psychology of Popular Media Culture received coverage from the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and television station KTLA in Los Angeles.
July 12, 2014 - SF Chronicle
U.S. foreign policy provoked immigration crisis

The San Francisco Chronicle published an opinion piece by Héctor Perla Jr., assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies, on the flood of child immigrants to the United States.
July 22, 2014 - Skeptical Science
Seal of approval - How marine mammals provide important climate data

Biologist Dan Costa was featured in a Skeptical Science story about the use of marine mammals to collect climate data from the oceans.
July 18, 2014 - Toronto Globe and Mail
The remarkable comeback of sea otters to the B.C. coast

Marine ecologist James Estes was quoted in a Toronto Globe & Mail story about the recovery of sea otter populations along the British Columbia coast.
July 16, 2014 - Science
Star Trek 'engine' goes where no one has gone before

Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a story in Science and Huffington Post about an experiment using powerful lasers to crush a diamond.
July 15, 2014 - National Public Radio
Underwater Meadows Might Serve As Antacid For Acid Seas

Marine ecologist Mark Carr was featured in a story on NPR's "Morning Edition" about a study led by alumna Kristy Kroeker on the role that eelgrass beds might play in mitigating the effects of ocean acidification. The story was reposted on public radio station news sites around the country.
July 14, 2014 - Scientific American
Supersonic Earthquake Shook Kamchatka

Seismologist Thorne Lay was quoted in stories about a "supersonic" earthquake in Kamchatka in Scientific American, LiveScience, and Tech Media.
July 11, 2014 - Palo Alto Weekly
Stoking a passion for science

Astronomer Raja Guhathakurta, director of the UCSC Student Internship Program, was featured in a Palo Alto Weekly cover story about high school students doing summer internships in research labs in the region.
July 13, 2014 - Slate
Make Way for Whales

Marine biologist Asha de Vos was interviewed about her research on Sri Lankan blue whales in Slate and New Scientist. The Sri Lanka Sunday Times also ran a story about her research.
July 11, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
‘Supermoon’ will rise on Saturday

Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in a story on SFGate about the "supermoon" on Saturday night, and Laughlin's comments were picked up nationally by Mashable, NPR blog "The Two-Way," and other news sites.
July 09, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC names new university librarian

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about the selection of Elizabeth Cowell as new University Librarian, noting she will “continue to move the libraries beyond a collection, toward a set of services integrated in UC Santa Cruz's research and educational mission.”
July 10, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC alum designs affordable desktop digital router

Computer engineering professor Gabe Elkaim is quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about UCSC alumni Bar Smith and Tom Beckett who have developed an affordable desktop CNC router and started a company to market it.
July 09, 2014 - Huffington Post
Who's Responsible for the Flight of Honduran Children?

History professor Dana Frank contributed an article to the Huffington Post about how the influx of Central American children crossing the border is a result of U.S. support of a corrupt post-coup regime in Honduras that has given that country the highest murder rate in the world. Frank was also featured in an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio about why children are fleeing Honduras for the U.S.
July 07, 2014 - Marketplace
Your job in 5 words

Marketplace Radio invited listeners to describe their jobs in five words, and among the responses aired on the show was one from Marc Mangel, professor of mathematical biology: "Create opportunities for young scientists."
June 30, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC alum builds career-advising company

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about an alum's new company.
June 28, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC public affairs director Jim Burns retires

The Santa Cruz Sentinel played it straight with its article on the director of public affairs retiring after 30 years working at UC Santa Cruz.
July 02, 2014 - KION
95 new U.S. citizens sworn in at UC Santa Cruz

KION covered the citizenship swearing in ceremony at Porter College as did KSBW and Univision.
July 01, 2014 - Contra Costa Times
UC takes initiative on food issues

Several news outlets included information on UC Santa Cruz in their coverage of the UC Global Food Initiative including the Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, the blog Berkeleyside, Imperial Valley News, and Feedstuffs, an online new source for the ag industry.
June 30, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
$4M gift supports UCSC farming apprenticeship

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about the $4 million grant to the farm apprenticeship at UC Santa Cruz. KION channel 46 also posted a story about it.
June 30, 2014 - Atlantic
How Solitary Confinement Hurts the Teenage Brain

The Atlantic magazine quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in an article on the consequences of solitary confinement on teens.
July 01, 2014 - KSBW
UC Santa Cruz pioneers in organic, sustainable farming

KSBW Channel 8 covered the UC Global Food Initiative by filming where it started, the UC Santa Cruz farm.
July 02, 2014 - Words Without Borders
The City and the Writer--In Santa Cruz with Micah Perks

The international magazine Words Without Borders ran an interview with Micah Perks, professor of literature and co-director of the UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program, about life in Santa Cruz.
July 01, 2014 - Good Times
What Smells? Science!

A project led by chemists Yat Li and Hanyu Wang to develop a hybrid solar-microbial device for generating hydrogen fuel was featured in a Good Times Weekly cover story.
July 02, 2014 - Nature
Astronomy: Planets in chaos

Astrophysicists Greg Laughlin and Doug Lin are quoted in a Nature news story about planet formation theories.
July 01, 2014 - The Scientist
Sly Guys

Biologist Barry Sinervo's research on lizard mating strategies is featured in an article in The Scientist about alternative mating tactics in the animal kingdom.

June

June 26, 2014 - Forbes
Participatory Biology

Forbes posted a video and transcript of a Techonomy panel on "participatory biology" featuring biomolecular engineer David Haussler.
June 26, 2014 - The Thom Hartmann Program
What to do about America's child-migrant crisis

History professor Dana Frank was interviewed on the nationally syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, about the 2009 coup in Honduras that led to the surge of children now fleeing to the U.S. She also did an additional live interview for KPFA.
June 24, 2014 - Psychology Today
How a Californian Sea Lion Made My Day

Colleen Reichmuth's pinniped lab at Long Marine Lab and the beat-keeping sea lion Ronan were featured in the Music Matters column in Psychology Today.
June 24, 2014 - Kotaku
How Making Games Helped Her Deal With Evil

Game news site Kotaku ran an in-depth profile of Brenda Romero, director of the games and playable media master's degree program.
June 25, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC alum receives $130,000 fellowship: Program gives industry experience to humanities doctorates

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about Michael Ursell, a 2011 UC Santa Cruz graduate with a Ph.D in Literature, who received a $130,000 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
June 19, 2014 - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
IRS loss of emails believed avoidable

Computer scientist Ethan Miller was quoted as an expert on archival storage in stories about the IRS being unable to recover old emails sent by administrators, including stories from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Associated Press, Technology News, and others.
June 16, 2014 - Huffington Post
Passenger Pigeon Extinction Not Caused Solely By Humans, Researchers Say

Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted as an outside expert in stories about passenger pigeon research in the Huffington Post, Scientific American, and Science.
June 20, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UCSC students interview local seniors for final project

The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a class at Cowell College inspired by art history professor and founding faculty member Mary Holmes, which included a final project where students interviewed senior citizens about how three recurring themes in Holmes' art played out in their lives.
June 17, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Iranian transfer student wins Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about Arash Mohajerinejad, winner of the third Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship.
June 17, 2014 - Santa Cruz Tech Beat
Sammy Awards Recognize Student-Designed Video Games

Santa Cruz Tech Beat covered the 4^th annual Sammy Awards, the culmination of UCSC game design course sequence.
June 16, 2014 - Popular Archaeology
Climate Change Prompted Migrations in Ancient Peru, Says Genetic Study

Popular Archaeology wrote about a paper by assistant anthropology professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz about his research that uses DNA analysis to trace migrations in ancient Peru to climate change.
June 06, 2014 - Wallet Hub
The Economy, Midterm Elections & Personal Finance: What’s in Store for Your Wallet?

Politics chair Dan Wirls and College Eight Provost Ronnie Lipschutz were recently featured in separate "Ask the Experts" pieces, parts of a series published by the website WalletHub. Wirls spoke about the 2014 midterm elections; Lipschutz about the domestic energy revolution.
June 16, 2014 - NBC News
Border Children Tell Their Stories: Why We Came to the U.S.

NBC News quoted history professor Dana Frank in a story about the wave of Central American children crossing the U.S. border that is now overwhelming the U.S government, described by the White House as a humanitarian crisis fueled by increasing violence and instability in countries like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
June 10, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Therapy dogs boost finals week morale at UCSC

The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on Pause for Paws, a program that brings dogs into UCSC's libraries to provide a respite for stressed-out students studying for finals. The Contra Costa Times also published the article.
May 29, 2014 - Nautilus
Ingenious: Gregory Laughlin

UCSC scientists are featured in several pieces in Issue 13 of the online magazine Nautilus. Astrophysicist Greg Laughlin is featured in a video interview as well as a speculative essay he wrote (Third Data Server From the Sun) on Earth as a computer. Another article (When the Earth Had Two Moons) focuses on planetary scientist Erik Asphaug and research he did at UCSC on the origins of the moon.
June 12, 2014 - SF Chronicle
Cougar's 9-hour detour in downtown Mountain View

The San Francisco Chronicle talked to environmental studies professor Chris Wilmers for an article that recounted the travels of the mountain lion known as 46M in downtown Mountain View.
June 08, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Undergrad creates UCSC's first student-run scientific magazine

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about a UCSC graduate's science magazine.
June 08, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC graduate student discovers hidden consequence of fires

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about a UCSC graduate student's research.
June 07, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC student honored for designing cancer drug

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a UCSC graduate whose research project involved designing a cancer drug.
June 06, 2014 - Santa Monica Mirror
Santa Monica College Commencement Ceremony - George Blumenthal to speak

The Santa Monica Mirror noted that Chancellor Blumenthal will deliver the commencement address at Santa Monica Community College.
June 08, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz students display fruits of digs

The Santa Cruz Sentinel visited the archeological dig at the Cowell Ranch Lime Works and wrote about it.
June 08, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC graduations begin Friday

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article on upcoming commencement ceremonies.
June 12, 2014 - National Geographic
Sea Otter Moms Risk Lives to Raise Babies

Research led by biologist Nicole Thometz on sea otter moms and the energy they expend raising a pup was covered by National Geographic, Science Daily, PhysOrg, Science Codex, and other media outlets.
June 10, 2014 - Oregon Jewish Life Magazine
Guatemalan children jump for joy when Hillel students build them a school

Oregon Jewish Life Magazine ran a story about how students affiliated with Hillel at UC Santa Cruz collaborated with The Oregon Hillel Foundation and worked with nonprofit organizations Hillel International and Repair the World to build a sustainable school building in Compala, Guatemala, during spring break.
June 05, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC delivers in the witty and brilliant opera 'Tartuffe'

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a review of the UC Santa Cruz production of the opera Tartuffe, noting that "over the last 15 years, UC Santa Cruz has gained wide recognition on the West Coast for its fine opera and vocal coaching."
June 09, 2014 - The Architect's Newspaper
Land Matters: Tod Williams Billie Tsien chosen for UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences.

UC Santa Cruz's announcement that Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects have been chosen to design the new Institute of the Arts and Sciences generated stories in a number of national press outlets including The Architect's Newspaper, World Architecture News, Archinet, Contract magazine, and Bustler.net, plus the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
June 06, 2014 - NBC Los Angeles
Polar Bear Cam Provides Researchers With Arctic Reality Show

Biology grad student Anthony Pagano was featured in coverage of a video released by the USGS from his study of polar bears using video cameras attached to tracking collars on the bears. Coverage included stories from NBC stations in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego; Live Science; Nature World News; Christian Science Monitor, and others.
May 31, 2014 - Science News
Ocean bacteria may have shut off ancient global warming

Science News magazine ran a story about marine scientist Adina Paytan's research on an ancient episode of global warming.
June 03, 2014 - Red Orbit
Modern Ocean Acidification Is Outpacing Ancient Upheaval

Earth science grad student Donald Penman was quoted in coverage of ocean acidification research in Red Orbit, Science 2.0, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
May 30, 2014 - Wall Street Journal
Books: The Great Forgetting

The Wall Street Journal published a book review by politics associate professor Ben Read on two books concerning the aftermath of China's successful crushing of the pro-democracy movement 25 years ago.
June 01, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC freshman presents football experiment at White House

The Santa Cruz Sentinel talked with UCSC freshman Maria Hanes after she visited the White House twice in a week to talk about her science project involving new ways to cushion football helmets.
June 03, 2014 - New York Times
A Star-Gazing Palace’s Hazy Future

Astronomer Sandra Faber was quoted in a New York Times article about Lick Observatory.
June 03, 2014 - Santa Cruz Tech Beat
Aspiring UCSC game designers hope for recognition at the Sammy Awards

Senior computer game design major Orlando Salvatore was quoted in a Tech Beat story about the upcoming Sammy Awards.
June 03, 2014 - National Geographic
Astronomers Find "Mega-Earth," Most Massive Rocky Planet Yet

Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in a National Geographic story about a new planet discovery.
June 02, 2014 - New York Times
Master of the Game (Diploma Says So)

Game design masters program director Brenda Romero was quoted in a New York Times story about the NYU Game Center.

May

May 28, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz gun culture debate draws dozens

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the round table discussion at Colleges Nine and Ten on gun control.
May 22, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC pioneers virtual UC classroom

Environmental studies professor Brent Haddad's online class "Introduction to Fresh Water" was the subject of an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
May 26, 2014 - NBC Bay Area
Hundreds at UC Santa Cruz Mourn Victims in Isla Vista Rampage

NBC BayArea reported from the spontaneous memorial held on campus Monday evening for the six murder victims in Isla Vista.
May 27, 2014 - KTVU
UCSC students mourn victims of Isla Vista rampage

Oakland TV station KTVU reported on the memorial.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/hundreds-mourners-gather-ucsc-remember-victims-isl/nf75x/
May 20, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Strawberry Blast at UCSC introduces youth to food issues

The Santa Cruz Sentinel joined high school students in a visit to the UCSC Farm as part of a Food, What?! program. The Associated Press picked up the story and the Mercury News published it.
May 29, 2014 - NBC Bay Area
Volunteers Keep Round-the-Clock Watch Over San Jose's Peregrine Falcon Chicks

Biologist Glenn Stewart was featured in an NBC News story about the "Falcon Watch" volunteers who observe fledgling peregrine falcons in downtown San Jose.
May 22, 2014 - Bay Area Parent magazine
Q & A with Micah Perks: author of Alone in the Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter, and Me

Bay Area Parent magazine interviewed Micah Perks, professor of literature and co-director of the UCSC Creative Writing Program, about her new memoir about women in the wilderness, released as an e-book on Shebooks.
May 14, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz students learn language through theater

The Santa Cruz Sentinel interviewed Miriam Ellis, professor emeritus of French, plus several language students for a story about UCSC's International Playhouse, a showcase of foreign language theater, noting that the playhouse was renamed in Ellis's honor this year thanks to the establishment of an endowment to help with operating costs.
May 18, 2014 - France Inter (French Public Radio)
San Francisco et le cinéma

Film and Digital Media professor Peter Limbrick was interviewed in French for a special segment on "San Francisco and Cinema," which aired on France Inter, the French public radio channel, in connection with its Cannes Film Festival coverage.
May 21, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC's Nathaniel Mackey receives major poetry award

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about Nathaniel Mackey, professor emeritus of literature, who was named the winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement.
May 21, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Theater review: UCSC's 'Rent' shows a lot of heart, and skin

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a review of the UCSC student production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, Rent, directed by Theater Arts Professor Danny Scheie.
May 12, 2014 - Hyperallergic
Bridging the Coasts: Bay Area Figurative Painters at Yale

Brooklyn-based arts blogazine Hyperallergic profiled UCSC alumnus Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.
May 22, 2014 - Live Science
Strange Rocks Found in Earth's Crustal Graveyard

Earth scientist Quentin Williams is quoted in a story about rocks in the deep mantle from Live Science, Yahoo News, and the Huffington Post.
May 23, 2014 - Sacramento Bee
Physics panel to feds: Beam us up some neutrinos

Physicist Steve Ritz, who chaired the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, was quoted in news coverage of the panel's recommendations, including an Associated Press article that ran in the Sacramento Bee, Newsday, U.S. News & World Report, and hundreds of newspapers and other media across the country, as well as stories in Symmetry magazine and other outlets.
May 21, 2014 - Washington Post
U.S. deploys 80 troops to Chad to help find kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls

The Washington Post interviewed Paul Lubeck, emeritus professor of sociology, about the Nigerian military and Boko Haram for an article on the U.S. sending 80 military personnel to Nigeria to help search for kidnapped schoolgirls.
May 21, 2014 - The American Scholar
The Barbie Effect: Toys make a difference in children’s aspirations

Psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen's study of how girls' views of career options are affected by playing with Barbie dolls was featured in the online version of The American Scholar, the quarterly literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
May 19, 2014 - Nerd Wallet
40 under 40: Professors Who Inspire

Nerd Wallet, an online personal finance site for millennials, selected assistant economics professor Alan Spearot as one of its "40 under 40: Professors Who Inspire" in its Nerd Scholar section.
May 15, 2014 - Santa Cruz Tech Beat
UCSC Games and Playable Media Programs take it to the Next Level

Santa Cruz Tech Beat ran a feature story about the Center for Games and Playable Media and the various degree programs offered in computer game design at UCSC.
May 19, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Earthquake cluster likely to strike Bay Area, scientists say

Seismologist Thorne Lay commented on a USGS study of earthquake risk in the Bay Area in a San Jose Mercury News story that was widely distributed by AP, running in the Sacramento Bee, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, and many other outlets.
May 15, 2014 - New York Magazine
There’s a Science to Squashing Rumors, and the Times Did the Opposite

A New York Magazine blog post on the firing of New York Times editor Jill Abramson quoted psychology professor Anthony Pratkanis on rumor control. The quote was lifted from a 2008 Boston Globe article by the same author.
May 16, 2014 - examiner.com
What happens when poor women suddenly acquire land status and power

The online site examiner.com wrote about assistant psychology professor Shelly Grabe's study on land owning and power among women in two developing countries.
May 16, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Earth Matters: Stranger than fiction: The Anthropocene is upon us

A columnist for the Santa Cruz Sentinel attended the Anthropocene conference and wrote about it.
May 15, 2014 - Seattle Times
Scientists say some quakes may be predictable

Seismologists Emily Brodsky and Thorne Lay were featured in stories about earthquake prediction from the Seattle Times, Sacramento Bee, KQED, LiveScience, CBS News, Yahoo News, and other media outlets.
May 13, 2014 - New York Times
Finder of New Worlds

Astronomer Steve Vogt was quoted in a New York Times profile of his former graduate student and collaborator Geoffrey Marcy.
May 13, 2014 - China Daily Asia
A seasoned perspective

A story in China Daily Asia about 98-year-old author Isabel Crook quoted history professor Gail Hershatter, who described how Crook's work has contributed to the understanding of modern China.
May 07, 2014 - VentureBeat
This is the end: Why millions of gamers love to play in the apocalypse

Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media Soraya Murray was quoted in a VentureBeat article about why so many people are attracted to video games, films and books with apocalyptic stories.
May 13, 2014 - Manila Bulletin
Reefs cheaper than concrete to protect coast cities

Marine scientist Mike Beck was quoted in coverage of a study showing the effectiveness of coral reefs at protecting coastlines, including a story from French wire service AFP published in the Manila Bulletin and many other international sources, as well as the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, National Geographic, Japan Times, Red Orbit, Nature World News, PhysOrg, News Daily, Global Post, and other outlets.
May 09, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC graduate research showcase highlights digital media

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the Graduate Research Symposium, featuring quotes from several students and Tyrus Miller, vice provost and dean of graduate studies.
May 10, 2014 - NPR Weekend Edition
How Much Can The U.S. Do For Kidnapped Nigerian Girls?

Paul Lubeck, emeritus professor of sociology and an expert on northern Nigeria, was featured in an in-studio interview on NPR's Weekend Edition for a segment on Boko Haram and the kidnapping of more than 250 schoolgirls.
May 05, 2014 - KJZZ
Arizona Diamondbacks, Cities Jump On 'Zero Waste' Bandwagon

Lacey Raak, UCSC's sustainability director, was quoted by KJZZ, the public radio station in Phoenix, in a report about the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team trying to cut back on the amount of waste going to landfills.
May 11, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Eco-tours of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf highlight ocean life

A story in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel about eco-tours of the Santa Cruz wharf featured UCSC students Rebeca Irigoyen and Austin Erb and Seymour Center visitor programs coordinator Chris Reeves.
May 11, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
UC astronomers fight to save Lick Observatory

Astronomer Michael Bolte is quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about Lick Observatory, while astronomer Eleanor Gates was featured in a KCBS TV story about the observatory.
May 08, 2014 - Science
Polar Bear Evolution Was Fast and Furious

Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in a story about the evolution of polar bears in Science magazine.
May 08, 2014 - National Geographic
5 Dramatic Ways California Is Tackling Drought

Hydrogeologist Andy Fisher is featured in a National Geographic video accompanying their multimedia coverage of the California drought.
May 08, 2014 - New York Times
Abduction of Girls an Act Not Even Al Qaeda Can Condone

The New York Times interviewed Paul Lubeck, emeritus professor of sociology, about the origins of Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamic insurgent group suspected of kidnapping hundreds of school girls.
May 07, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Tracking collar showed Mountain View puma was looking for his own space

The San Jose Mercury News talked with environmental studies associate professor Chris Wilmers in the aftermath of a young mountain lion's visit to downtown Mountain View. Local television stations KPIX, KTVU, and NBCBay Area did follow-up reports with Wilmers on camera explaining how the puma's tracking collar showed his movements leading up to his capture.
May 07, 2014 - KCBS
Peregrine Falcons On The Rebound: Nest Atop Downtown SF PG&E Building

KCBS radio interviewed wildlife biologist Glenn Stewart about the peregrine falcons nesting on the PG&E building in San Francisco. Stewart banded the chicks in the nest this week.
May 05, 2014 - CBS 5 KPIX
Falcon Watching Goes High-Tech Atop San Jose City Hall

Broadcast stations KCBS, CBS5 KPIX, KTVU and ABC7 KGO followed biologist Glenn Stewart, director of the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group, as he rappelled down San Jose City Hall to place leg bands on four peregrine falcon chicks that had hatched on a ledge. KCBS, CBS5 KPIX, and the San Francisco Appeal also covered Stewart's expedition to the 33^rd floor of the PG&E building in San Francisco to band three female chicks in a nest there.
May 04, 2014 - KUSP 7th Avenue Project
The Unorthodox Whales of Sri Lanka

Marine biologist Asha de Vos was interviewed on KUSP Radio's 7th Avenue Project about her research on blue whales in Sri Lanka.
May 02, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Domoic acid: behind health warnings, a marine mystery

Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Monterey Herald about a harmful algal bloom currently affecting wildlife in Monterey Bay.
May 02, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Data storage company with UC Santa Cruz roots sold for $175 million

Computer scientist Scott Brandt was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the sale of a data storage company started by his former graduate student.
May 01, 2014 - Reuters
Scientists vexed in probe of North American starfish deaths

Marine ecologist Pete Raimondi is featured in continued coverage of sea star wasting disease, including widely published story from Reuters, as well as articles in Science, the Orange County Register, Guardian, Daily Mail, The Conversation, LiveScience, and others.
May 01, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC ocean ecology and art collaboration receives NEA grant: Interactive art by UCSC student to be installed on San Francisco waterfront

The Santa Cruz Sentinel interviewed Jennifer Parker, chair of the art department, and Gene Felice, a DANM graduate student, for a story about UCSC receiving an NEA grant that will support installing interactive art about ocean ecology on the San Francisco waterfront. "Solving real-world problems requires collaboration across academic boundaries," Parker noted.
May 01, 2014 - Indiewire
Alice Waters Throws Chez Panisse Feast for Sauper's SFIFF Film 'We Come as Friends'

Indiewire wrote about a special dinner at Chez Panisse, hosted by Alice Waters to celebrate a film screening by Hubert Sauper at the SF Film Festival, that included UCSC film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich, noting that Rich is now the editor of Film Quarterly.
May 01, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Christa Martin: Louise Leong's toy world

The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled recent art graduate and Irwin scholar Louise Leong, "who counts crafting toys as just one of her many creative talents that also include sculpture and printmaking."
May 01, 2014 - New Scientist
Dog's Worst Friend

Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a New Scientist article about the freshwater algal toxin microcystin and its effects on dogs.
May 01, 2014 - New Scientist
Sharing the Wealth

Bioinformatics expert David Haussler was quoted in a New Scientist article about the sharing of biomedical data.

April

April 30, 2014 - Wall Street Journal
Open-Source Push: Red Hat Nabs Inktank For $175 Million

The UCSC origins of data storage company Inktank were noted in news coverage of its acquisition by Red Hat, including stories from the Wall Street Journal (blog), TechCrunch, SlashDot, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, SFGate, TechWire, CRN, and Triangle Business Journal.
April 28, 2014 - Contra Costa Times
Robert Dawson's 'The Public Library': Pictures tell 1,000 words about a beloved institution

The Contra Costa Times featured a story about alumni photographer and recent Guggenheim winner Robert Dawson, describing his latest book, The Public Library: A Photographic Essay, and noting that Dawson met famed photographer Ansel Adams while in college at UC Santa Cruz. The story also ran in Inside Bay Area and the San Jose Mercury News.
April 02, 2014 - Atlantic Cities
3 Enormous Benefits to Charging the Right Price for Parking

Atlantic Cities blog wrote about assistant professor of environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball's study of a demand-pricing-for-parking experiment in San Francisco.
April 28, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz alumni weekend ties together past and present

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about alumni reunion weekend.
April 26, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Leon Panetta talks democracy, education at UCSC alumni event

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the keynote address by Leon Panetta and the Launch! event.
April 25, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Julie Packard gives $1 million to UC Santa Cruz

Coverage of Julie Packard's $1 million gift to UCSC included stories in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, and Inside Bay Area.
April 24, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC panel discusses practicality, morality of de-extinction

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the Science and Justice Working Group's symposium on de-extinction. The Mercury News also published the article.
April 22, 2014 - Frontline
Craig Haney: Solitary Confinement is a “Tried-and-True” Torture Device

Psychology and legal studies professor Craig Haney gave an extensive interview to the PBS investigative documentary program Frontline for its two-part special report "Locked up in America."
April 21, 2014 - NBC News
Spike in Earthquakes? An 'Illusion' Raises New Questions

Seismologists Thorne Lay and Emily Brodsky are quoted in an NBC News story about the string of recent large earthquakes leading up to the magnitude 8.2 quake in Chile.
April 22, 2014 - KQED
Reawakening Extinct Species

Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro and visiting researcher Ben Novak are featured in a KQED QUEST story about efforts to bring back the extinct passenger pigeon. The story also ran on PBS Newshour.
April 21, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Art exhibit lets visitors get handle on water issues: 'Undercurents' on display at UCSC's Digital Arts Research Center

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about a new art exhibition on campus by 11 graduate students from UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. Program (DANM), who combine science, technology and art to explore social problems such as local water issues.
April 17, 2014 - USA Today
Kepler's cool find: Another Earth-size planet

Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted as an outside expert in coverage of a new planet discovery, an Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of its host star, including stories from the Associated Press and USA Today that appeared in a wide range of other media outlets,
April 09, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC grad Kelsey Doyle travels the world

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a feature story about Kelsey Doyle, a recent graduate of UCSC with a bachelor's degree in Film and Digital Media, and her travels around the world to explore and document different people and cultures through documentary films and photography.
April 10, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Photographer David Pace finds his muse in Burkino Faso

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured an interview with alumus photographer David Pace, who is one of three UCSC alums currently featured in a photography exhibition at UCSC's Sesnon Gallery.
April 16, 2014 - Good Times Weekly
Gerald Casel brings his vision of a united dance community to National Dance Week Santa Cruz

The Good Times Weekly published a story about theater arts professor of dance Gerald Casel and his involvement with the local community in National Dance Week Santa Cruz.
April 15, 2014 - San Francisco Classical Voice
Nicole Paiement: The Bright New Force of Opera Parallèle

San Francisco Classical Voice featured an interview with music professor Nicole Paiement, director of ensembles at UCSC, where she conducts the Orchestra, the Chamber Singers, and the Opera.
April 17, 2014 - LaCrosse Tribune
What's old is new again for some in digital age

The LaCrosse Tribune, Idaho Statesman, Columbia Daily Herald, and Bellingham Herald quoted film and digital media professor Warren Sack, a software designer and media theorist, in an article about emerging groups turning to old technology due to distrust of the breadth of electronic surveillance revealed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
April 16, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
'Condor Watch' enlists citizens to help endangered species

Environmental toxicologist Myra Finkelstein was featured in coverage of the Condor Watch citizen science project, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, KION TV, Inside Bay Area, PhysOrg, and others.
April 15, 2014 - Santa Cruz Tech Beat
Garden of Gaming in Santa Cruz is Tilled and Ready for Growth

Game design faculty Jim Whitehead, Michael Mateas, and Brenda and John Romero are featured in a Santa Cruz Tech Beat article about the growing game development industry in Santa Cruz.
April 14, 2014 - Newsworks
Recent jail deaths raise questions about detox protocols

Newsworks, a blog by WHYY public radio in Philadelphia, quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in an article that looked at the recent deaths of two inmates in Bucks County, Penn. jails.
April 11, 2014 - Economist
On their own: What explains the surge in self-employment?

The Economist interviewed Rob Fairlie, chair of economics, in an article on entrepreneurship. Separately, a report Fairlie authored for the Kauffman Foundation, the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, received widespread coverage nationally including a Dallas Morning News blog that mentioned Fairlie.
April 11, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UC Santa Cruz alumnus nominated to chair national organization

The San Jose Mercury News and the Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story announcing that UCSC alumnus William "Bro" Adams was nominated by President Obama to be chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
April 14, 2014 - Morocco Gazette
Prominent Moroccan director presents films at Block Museum

Film and Digital Media professor Peter Limbrick was quoted in the Morocco Gazette for a story about a series of film screenings featuring the works of prominent Moroccan director Moumen Smihi at the Block Museum.
April 07, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Madison Nguyen: Seeing an example in the Samsung building

The San Jose Mercury News and Inside Bay Area ran a story on Madison Nguyen, a UCSC graduate in history, who is one of the five major candidates for San Jose mayor.
April 10, 2014 - Huffington Post
'Super Planet Crash' Game Is Like An Astronomer's Version Of 'Angry Birds'

Astrophysicist Greg Laughlin was featured in coverage of the online game 'Super Planet Crash' based on Laughlin's planet-finding software, including stories from the Huffington Post, Space.com, Yahoo News, the Verge, Hacker News, Space Ref, PhysOrg, Space Daily, Global News, io9, TweakTown, Motherboard, Geekosystem, Malaysia Sun, SiFy, Zee News, and others.
April 09, 2014 - BBC
Will we ever… detect other universes?

Physicist Anthony Aguirre is featured in a BBC Future article about the possibility of detecting other universes.
April 03, 2014 - Philanthropy News Digest
Packard Foundation Awards $2 Million in Support of Natural History Fieldwork

The Foundation Center wrote about the $2 million Packard Foundation grant to support natural history education at UCSC in its Philanthropy News Digest.
April 01, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC environmental studies department receives $2 million gift

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about the Packard grant, and the Good Times made mention of it, too.
April 08, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Hastings law professor speaks on prosecuting the Holocaust

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered a lecture at UCSC by UC Hastings law professor Morris Ratner, who spoke about his experience prosecuting European banks and companies that benefitted from Nazi atrocities, noting that the lecture kicked off a partnership between UCSC and the law school, and including quotes from emeritus history professor Peter Kenez. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News and Inside Bay Area.
April 06, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UCSC remembers artist and founding faculty member Mary Holmes

The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about events to honor the late art history professor and founding UCSC faculty member Mary Holmes, which included quotes from emeritus humanities professor John Dizkikes.
April 07, 2014 - Santa Cruz Tech Beat
Hack UCSC: A Step in the Right Direction

The Hack UCSC hackathon competition was covered in Santa Cruz Tech Beat, Santa Cruz Weekly, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
April 02, 2014 - New Scientist
Chilean earthquake may be part of a cascade

Seismologists Thorne Lay and Emily Brodsky were quoted in coverage of the Chilean earthquake from New Scientist and World News.
April 03, 2014 - USA Today
Ocean on Saturn moon may have ingredients for life

Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in stories about new evidence for the existence of a liquid ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus, including a USA Today article that was distributed by AP and appeared in newspapers and online news sites across the country, and a story in New Scientist magazine.
April 04, 2014 - Huffington Post
'Game Of Thrones' Action Underpinned By Science, Experts Say

Astrophysicist Greg Laughlin was quoted in a story about the science behind the HBO series 'Game of Thrones' that ran on Huffington Post, Live Science, and Space.com.
April 01, 2014 - Foreign Policy
Shady Honduran Military Won’t Get Help from U.S. to Shoot Down Drug Planes

History professor Dana Frank was quoted in Foreign Policy magazine about the complicated nature of the relationship between Honduras and the United States.
April 01, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Three UCSC alums combine for photo exhibit

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about the opening of a new art exhibit at the Sesnon Gallery by UCSC alumni photographers focusing on the environment.
March 30, 2014 - Variety
National Film Preservation Foundation Unearths Lost Silents in Pact with Dutch Museum

Film and Digital Media associate professor Rick Prelinger was quoted in Variety about how a partnership between the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and the San Francisco-based National Preservation Foundation will enable the restoration and preservation of silent pictures that haven’t been seen in decades.
March 24, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Race raised as issue in Watsonville election

Emeritus history professor Pedro Castillo was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News for a story about how opponents of a measure facing Watsonville voters in June are suggesting racism is motivating backers of the initiative. The story also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Inside Bay Area.
March 21, 2014 - VentureBeat
Threeview: Thief reviewed by a critic, an analyst, and an academic

Assistant professor of Film and Digital media Soraya Murray conributed a review of Square Enix’s Thief, along with a media critic and an industry analyst, in VentureBeat.
March 19, 2014 - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Theatre for a New Audience presents ‘Open Books’

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran an article about theater arts professor Kimberly Jannarone, who will give a free public talk in Theater for a New Audiences' Open Books series, which "features the critical and scholarly voices behind some of the best books newly published in the theater field."
March 10, 2014 - Pacific Standard magazine
What Dreams Still Come: An Old-Fashioned Explorer in Modern Times

Pacific Standard magazine published an extensive (and fascinating) feature story on the "secret life" of Keith Muscutt, who retired from UCSC in 2007 after 29 years as assistant dean of the Arts Division.
April 01, 2014 - KION
UC Santa Cruz gets $2 million grant for natural history education

KION 46 posted an online article about a $2 million grant to UCSC for natural history education.
March 29, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Deconstruction begins of historic Cowell Ranch barn on UC Santa Cruz campus

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a UCSC public affairs office press release on dismantling beginning on the Cowell Ranch hay barn.
March 28, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz class teaches service learning in Live Oak

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article on a College Nine / Ten service learning project in Live Oak during spring break.
March 28, 2014 - Monterey Herald
Read or Die! UCSC's Micah Perks goes into the woods

The Monterey Herald and Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a new e-book from literature professor Micah Perks, co-director of UCSC's Creative Writing program, released on a new start-up called "Shebooks" that publishes a wide range of fiction, journalism and memoir centered on women's lives.

March

March 27, 2014 - Live Science
5 Reasons Why West Coast Is More Vulnerable to Mudslides

Geologist Noah Finnegan was quoted in a story about why the west coast is vulnerable to mudslides in Live Science, Yahoo News, and Mother Earth News.
March 27, 2014 - The Log
Mysterious Disease Continues to Plague Starfish

Coverage of sea star wasting disease continues with an article in The Log, California's Boating and Fishing News.
March 26, 2014 - New Scientist
Robotic planet-hunter bags its first exoplanets

Coverage of the new Automated Planet Finder telescope at Lick Observatory included stories from New Scientist, EarthSky, Daily Galaxy, Robotics Trends, Space Daily, Electronics Weekly, TG Daily, Astroblogs, Science Daily, PhysOrg, Business Standard, NewSmasHits, SpaceRef, Express (U.K.), Asian News International, News Track India, Zee News, Knovel, and others.
March 18, 2014 - Ars Technica
John Romero took me to school--twice

Coverage of Brenda and John Romero, program directors for the games and playable media masters program, at the Game Developers Conference included stories from Ars Technica, Gamasutra, and Polygon.
March 23, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz workshop cultivates green thumbs

The Santa Cruz Sentinel dropped by the Chadwick Garden for one of Orin Martin's Garden Cruz organic gardening classes for the community.
March 23, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz-based nonprofit founder honored for work

A Santa Cruz Sentinel report on Ellen Moir winning the 2014 Brock International Prize in Education noted her work with the New Teacher Center and how it began as the Santa Cruz New Teacher Project when she was director of the education program at UC Santa Cruz.
March 21, 2014 - KSBW
UC Santa Cruz hosts college day

KSBW Channel 8 covered the Santa Cruz County College Commitment project that brought 1,200 seventh graders to the UCSC campus to learn what they need to do to become college ready.
March 21, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz researchers, alums share their stories

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the "Bridging the Gap" presentation by Event Santa Cruz in which three social science professors and three UCSC alums talked about their work and connections to Santa Cruz.
March 21, 2014 - Chronicle of Higher Education
U.S. Agencies, Industry, and Academe Team Up to Compute Media’s Future

Computer scientists Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas were quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education story about a report they wrote for the Media Systems project called "Envisioning the Future of Computational Media."
March 21, 2014 - Gamasutra
'Making games is easy. Belonging is hard': #1ReasonToBe at GDC

Games and playable media program director Brenda Romero was featured in a Gamasutra story about a panel at the Game Developers Conference on sexism in the game industry, also covered by Polygon, Develop Online, SD Times, and Portland Mercury.
March 21, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
UC will take part in Hawaii telescope project with Caltech

Chancellor George Blumenthal was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about the UC Regents approval of UC's participation in the Thirty Meter Telescope project.
March 20, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC expands Zipcar fleet

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News noted that UCSC has expanded its Zipcar fleet to 10 cars in five locations.
March 18, 2014 - Architect magazine
Finalists Must Present Initial Design Concepts for the UC Santa Cruz Institute of Arts and Sciences

Architect magazine ran an article about UCSC's search for the architect to design the campus’s new Institute of the Arts and Sciences, noting that the three finalist teams were picked based on their experience in designing museums, educational, and cultural projects, and an understanding of the relationship between landscape and built form. ArchDaily also announced the finalists selected to move forward in the competition.
March 19, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Program cuts school time for bachelor's, legal degrees

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article on the 3+3 BA/JD program between UCSC and UC Hastings College of Law.
March 16, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Law professor to speak at UCSC about justice for Holocaust victims

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about an upcoming lecture by UC Hastings law professor Morris Ratner on justice for Holocaust victims, noting that the event kicks off a new social justice speaker series at UCSC that signals the start of a partnership between the campus and UC Hastings that will allow UCSC students to earn a bachelor's and law degree in just six years.
March 17, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Power of song: Music plays key role in Audries Blake's life

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured social sciences development assistant Audries Blake in its series on happiness and well-being.
March 09, 2014 - KUSP 7th Avenue Project
Howard Haber on the Higgs Boson

Theoretical physicist Howard Haber was interviewed on KUSP radio's 7th Avenue Project, discussing the Higgs boson with host Robert Pollie.
March 19, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Santa Cruz nature trip: UCSC Arboretum's horticultural beauty

The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum was featured in a story in the San Jose Mercury News travel section.
March 18, 2014 - Science Daily
Reintroduction experiments give new hope for plant on brink of extinction

Plant ecologist Ingrid Parker and her students were featured in coverage of their work to help save a critically endangered wetland plant called marsh sandwort, including stories in Science Daily, Science Codex, PhysOrg, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.
March 19, 2014 - Venture Beat
Triple-A developers-turned-academics now ship students instead of games

Brenda and John Romero, directors of the games and playable media masters program, were featured in a Venture Beat story about a panel at the GDC conference on game developers working in academia, also covered by Gamasutra and Polygon.
March 19, 2014 - National Geographic
Rare “Albino” Redwood May Hold Clues to the Super-Trees’ Longevity

Botanist Jarmilla Pitterman was quoted in a National Geographic story about a rare albino redwood that may be cut down to make room for a new transit system in Cotati, California.
March 13, 2014 - Policy Mic
80,000 Americans Suffer From a Cruel and Unusual Practice Most Countries Abolished

Psychology professor Craig Haney is featured in an article on solitary confinement published by the online site PolicyMic, aimed at millennials. The author later discussed her findings on MSNBC.
March 11, 2014 - The Economist
No more teddy bear picnics

Coverage of the Yosemite bears study continued with stories from the Economist, the Weather Channel, and the California Academy of Sciences.
March 06, 2014 - NPR Fresh Air
How four inmates launched a statewide hunger strike from solitary

Host Terry Gross interviewed psychology professor Craig Haney about solitary confinement on the NPR program "Fresh Air."
February 26, 2014 - New York Magazine
The Plot from Solitary

An article in New York Magazine on the summer 2013 hunger strike in California prisons featured comments by psychology professor Craig Haney about the psychological effects of prolonged solitary confinement.
March 06, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
Dolled up or working, Barbie crushes girls' career dreams, study says

Psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen's study about how girls' views of their career options are affected by playing with Barbie dolls was widely covered by national and international media. Articles appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Science, the Baltimore Sun, Daily Mail, Pacific Standard, Medical News Today, Consumer Affairs.com, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Washington Times, Hispanic business.com, Corvallis Gazette-Times, Eugene Register Guard, Science Daily, Medical Express News, and the Times of India among others.
March 07, 2014 - KQED Forum
What We Know — And Don’t Know — About the Sea Star Die-Off

Biologist Pete Raimondi is featured in a story about sea star wasting syndrome on KQED and was interviewed on KQED radio program "Forum."
March 01, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC alumnus Ron Yerxa up for 'Best Picture' Academy Award

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a feature story about UCSC alumnus and film producer Ron Yerxa, who was nominated for "Best Picture" in the 2014 Academy Awards for his film Nebraska, and has recently reconnected with UC Santa Cruz after a 30-year interval.
March 01, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz duo honors Santa Cruz guitar makers

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about a new book by a UCSC art alumna illustrating how such a robust community of master luthiers came to be located in Santa Cruz County. The story was also featured in the San Jose Mercury News.
March 05, 2014 - Gamasutra
Brenda Romero: What game designers can learn from Michelin chefs

Leading game news site Gamasutra ran an exclusive interview with Brenda Romero, program director for the games and playable media master's program.
March 05, 2014 - UPI
Barbie might be a dream killer, new study suggests

UPI online wrote about a paper co-authored by psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen published in the journal Sex Roles.
March 02, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Experts at UCSC conference urge rethinking responses to climate change

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered one of the panel discussions at the Climate Science and Policy conference March 1.
March 03, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Soquel school district targets underperforming Latino boys

In an article on a program to boost the academic performance of Latino boys the Santa Cruz Sentinel noted the participation of some UCSC undergrads.
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March 02, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Students compete, learn at UC Santa Cruz engineering competition

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about the 400 high school and middle school students who came to UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering March 1 for the annual Math Engineering Science Achievement (MESA) competition.
March 03, 2014 - Wired News
Strange Signal From Galactic Center Is Looking More and More Like Dark Matter

Physicist Stefano Profumo is quoted in a Wired News story about a signal from the center of our galaxy that may be the first detection of dark matter particles.
March 03, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
Yosemite bears eating like it's 1915

Research on the diets of Yosemite bears by biologist Jack Hopkins and Earth scientist Paul Koch was widely covered, including stories from the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, NPR (blog), Huffington Post, Live Science, Reuters, UPI, CBS News, Fox News, Yahoo News, Daily Mail, French Tribune, Smithsonian, Backpacker, Outside, Science World Report, Science Daily, Nature World News, and many others.
March 02, 2014 - New York Times
The Mammoth Cometh

A cover story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about efforts to bring back extinct species features visiting researcher Ben Novak and genomics researchers Beth Shapiro, Ed Green, and David Haussler.

February

February 27, 2014 - Politico Magazine
Dana Frank: The Thugocracy Next Door

Politico Magazine featured an extensive article by history professor Dana Frank about how, since the 2009 military coup that ousted democratically-elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, the U.S. has continued to support an illegitimate regime laced with drug traffickers, corruption, and widespread human rights abuses.
February 26, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
New research from UCSC finds seals very sensitive to underwater sound

Marine mammal researchers Jillian Sills and Colleen Reichmuth were quoted in stories about their research on spotted seals, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, ScienceNow, World News, Science Codex, Phys Org, Red Orbit and others.
February 27, 2014 - Huffington Post
Boy With Asperger's Finds Friend In Zoo's Sea Lion

Animal behavior and marine mammal expert Colleen Reichmuth was quoted in a Huffington Post story about a video of a young boy playing with a sea lion at the National Zoo.
February 26, 2014 - The Daily Beast
True Detective Director Cary Fukunaga’s Journey from Pro Snowboarder to Hollywood’s Most Wanted

The Daily Beast featured an extensive story and interview with history alumus and up-and-coming filmmaker Cary Fukunaga, who has directed two major movies plus eight episodes so far of the new HBO series "True Detective."
February 18, 2014 - KCET-Los Angeles
Bringing Video Arts and Public Health Awareness to Mass Transit

Associate film and digital media professor John Jota Leaños was one of six media artists featured in a KCET story about "Long Live LA," a program that commissioned six artists to create videos about public health issues that are being broadcast hourly on more than 2,000 L.A. Metro buses daily.
February 24, 2014 - KCET
Solar Plants May Make Deserts Too Hot For Tortoises

Biologist Barry Sinervo's research on California desert tortoises was featured in a story from KCET News.
February 16, 2014 - New York Times
Science Linking Drought to Global Warming Remains Matter of Dispute

Research on climate change by Earth scientist Lisa Sloan and former graduate student Jacob Sewall was cited in a New York Times story about the connection between climate change and current drought conditions in the western U.S.
February 23, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Building on lecture series, Keeley looks to create scholarship program

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article on the Fred Keeley Lecture on Environmental Policy and Keeley's effort to raise money for a Keeley Coastal Scholars program.
February 22, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
National climate conference to be held at UCSC: Panels and lectures will feature scientists, policymakers and commentators

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote an advance story on an upcoming climate science conference.
February 13, 2014 - Science
Live Chat: Is Solitary Confinement Torture?

Science magazine hosted an online chat about professor Craig Haney's presentation on solitary confinement. Haney's appearance on a panel at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago generated more than a dozen news reports including items on Smithsonian magazine online that was used as the basis for an article in the American Bar Association's Law Journal online. The Sydney Morning Herald also covered the story.
February 24, 2014 - EE Times
10 Engineering Schools You Should Know But Don’t

The Baskin School of Engineering was #3 on the list of "10 Engineering Schools You Should Know But Don’t" in EE Times.
February 21, 2014 - Inside Science
Is Solitary Confinement A Form Of Torture?

Inside Science, an independent nonprofit news outlet supported by the American Institute of Physics, covered a panel on solitary confinement at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago that included comments by psychology professor Craig Haney. The news service's reports are syndicated to mainstream news organizations, such as NBCNews.com, Fox News.com, Al Jazeera, the Christian Science Monitor, and television markets across the U.S.
February 19, 2014 - New Scientist
Sloshing sea may make Neptune's moon Triton habitable

Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a New Scientist article about Neptune's moon Triton.
February 04, 2014 - Symmetry
A second chance at sight

Physicist Alan Litke is featured in a Symmetry magazine article about his work using silicon microstrip detectors, developed for particle physics research, to study the neurobiology of vision and retinal prosthesis technology.
February 18, 2014 - BBC
Scientists call solitary confinement 'damaging and unnecessary'

The BBC quoted psychology professor Craig Haney in a report on solitary confinement from a session at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago. Agence France-Presse also covered the session; its article appeared in Japan Times, Australia's Perth Now, and on News Daily, a website produced by Science Daily.
February 20, 2014 - Huffington Post
This Is What Happens When Massive Black Hole Gobbles Up Sun-Like Star

Research on black holes led by astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz was covered by the Huffington Post, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Science Daily, Science Codex, PhysOrg, Supercomputing Online, TG Daily, Zee News, Red Orbit, and more.
February 11, 2014 - Scientific American
Robotic Surgery Opens Up

Medical robotics expert Jacob Rosen is featured in a Scientific American article about his group's open-source Raven II robotic surgery system.
February 18, 2014 - Quest
Lessons from a Global Garden: Growing More Food with Less

Quest, a science collaboration of six public broadcasters around the country including KQED, produced a report on biointensive farming and its promise for community gardens in underdeveloped nations that featured the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and apprenticeship instructor Christof Bernau.
February 15, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Forging a new path

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured an article about RAICES Indigenas de Mexico, a club at Watsonville High School for students of indigenes Mexican descent. UCSC sophomore Rocelia Cruz was a founding club member and UCSC doctoral student Elizabeth Gonzalez is a co-advisor.
February 15, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC professor testifies at hearing on perils of solitary confinement

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a report about professor Craig Haney's testimony at a Sacramento legislative hearing on solitary confinement.
February 16, 2014 - National Geographic
Dancing Animals Help Tell Us Why Music Evolved

Long Marine Lab's beat-keeping sea lion Ronan is back in the news, with stories about animal rhythmic abilities in national and international media, including Slate, National Geographic, Huffington Post, Discovery News, Chicago Tribune, Japan Times, Maclean's (Canada), Yahoo News, Reuters, AFP, EarthSky, Global Post, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Daily Telegraph (Australia), Daily Mail (UK), Zee News, International Business Times, and many more. International coverage ranged from Australia and South Africa to Poland, Switzerland, and dozens of outlets in Germany.
February 14, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
UCSC students design video game aimed at making astrophysics fun

Computer science graduate students Kate Compton and April Grow, and astrophysicist Stan Woosley, were featured in a San Jose Mercury News story about a game called Stellar based on the astrophysics of stars. The story also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, and other newspapers throughout the state.
February 12, 2014 - Sacramento Bee
California solitary confinement changes questioned at hearing

The Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, and Merced Sun-Star quoted professor Craig Haney's testimony at a legislative hearing on solitary confinement.
February 11, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
'Crowdsourcing' with a swipe of your finger

A story about a crowdsourcing app developed by a team of UCSC and Stanford students ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and other media.
February 11, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC student plans return to East San Jose with Teach for America

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Mercury News featured a senior who plans to return to his neighborhood to teach after graduation through the Teach for America program.
February 07, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Civil Rights leader tells youth to focus on education

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. convocation and the keynote address by Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
February 07, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC psychologist wins award for lifetime research acheivement in human-computer interaction

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about psychology professor Steve Whittaker winning an award for lifetime research achievement in human and computer interaction.
February 08, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz astronomer Sandra Faber speaks on 'the precious gift of cosmic time'

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about astronomer Sandra Faber's lecture on our cosmic future.
February 08, 2014 - Science News
Galaxies’ missing mass may hide in gas clouds

Science News ran a story about a study led by astrophysicist Jessica Werk that found vast reservoirs of previously undetected gas may account for much of the mass in galaxies.
February 05, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
'Complicated Labors' show explores art, motherhood

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about an exhibit and symposium at UCSC about feminism, materniity and the artisitic process, interviewing assistant director of film and digital media and exhibition curator Irene Lusztig. A story also appeared in the Santa Cruz Good Times.
February 05, 2014 - Salinas Californian
Broccoli: Good for you and organic strawberries. Alternating crops may shorten wait

Joji Muramoto, a researcher at UCSC's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, was quoted by the Salinas Californian in an article about using broccoli on organic strawberry fields to speed the reuse of land between berry crops.
February 02, 2014 - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
‘Camellia Has Fallen’ exhibit opens at the Sonoma County Museum

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat quoted literature professor Christine Hong in a story about an exhibition at the Sonoma County Museum about a massacre by the South Korean army in 1948 on an island under U.S. occupation.
February 04, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
Something is killing starfish; scientists race to find out what

Marine biologist Pete Raimondi continues to be featured in ongoing coverage of sea star wasting syndrome, the mysterious disease that is wiping out starfish on the U.S. West Coast, including stories in the Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, and Chicago Tribune, as well as stories from the AFP and AP wires that ran in media outlets worldwide, from the San Jose Mercury News to the Japan Times.

January

January 27, 2014 - The Architect's Newspaper
Stunning Site And Stunning Shortlist At UC Santa Cruz

The Architect's Newspaper Blog ran a piece about the great interest by architectural firms around the country in UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences, quoting founding director John Weber.
January 31, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
Héctor Perla Jr.: El Salvador vote should be decided by the people, not U.S.

Writing on the San Francisco Chronicle's op-ed page, Héctor Perla Jr., assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies, analyzes politics and outside influences in El Salvador in advance of the country's presidential election.
January 31, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz County sees grant to recharge aquifers

Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a grant from the Coastal Conservancy to support efforts by UCSC and the county to recharge the region's aquifers.
January 29, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart helps to pay tribute to late UC Santa Cruz professor

The San Jose Mercury News, Inside Bay Area, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart paying tribute to the late music professor Fred Lieberman at a UCSC event celebrating his life and work, including comments from Chancellor Blumenthal and arts dean David Yager.
January 25, 2014 - Houston Chronicle
Dana Frank: Hernández's election was built on corruption

The Houston Chronicle published an op-ed from history professor Dana Frank describing how U.S. support for new leaders in Honduras is misguided and unethical.
January 23, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Meet the newest winners of the Rydell Fellowships of Visual Art

Professor of art Elizabeth Stephens was featured in a cover story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel's arts and entertainment pullout section as one of three Santa Cruz artists who received a 2014 -15 Rydell Fellowship.
January 22, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Dickens film 'The Invisible Woman' has a Santa Cruz twist

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the Dickens Project at UCSC, inteviewing literature professor John Jordan, director of the program, which is now in its 34th year on campus.
January 27, 2014 - Live Science
New Technique Could Demystify Ancient Human DNA

Ancient DNA expert Beth Shapiro was quoted in a Live Science story about a new technique for obtaining ancient DNA sequences from contaminated fossils.
January 28, 2014 - Washington Post
DNA shows ancient hunter had blue eyes, dark skin

Ancient DNA expert Beth Shapiro was quoted in an Associated Press story about work by other researchers on the genome of a hunter-gatherer who lived 7,000 years ago in Europe. The story ran in a broad range of national and international media outlets, including the Washington Post, Salon, Yahoo News, Seattle Times, Californian, and many others.
January 24, 2014 - Christian Science Monitor
Mark Fathi Massoud: How grass-roots peace can take hold in South Sudan

Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics and legal studies, says a cease-fire in South Sudan is a positive first step but grassroots efforts are needed to forge a lasting peace.
January 24, 2014 - Climate Central
Short on Ocean Data, Scientists Turn to Seals for Help

Climate Central ran a story about research led by marine biologist Dan Costa using seals to carry instruments for monitoring ocean conditions.
January 24, 2014 - The California Report
Venerable Lick Observatory Faces Funding Cut

Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in a California Report story about budget cuts at Lick Observatory.
January 24, 2014 - Live Science
River Roulette: Randomness Controls Erosion

Geologist Noah Finnegan was quoted in a story about his research on how fast rivers erode rock in Live Science, Yahoo News, and Yahoo South Africa.
January 21, 2014 - The Seattle Times
Detention of US tourists to North Korea unusual

The Seattle Times quoted assistant professor of literature (East Asian Studies) Christine Hong in an article about Americans visiting North Korea despite strong warnings from the U.S. State Department, and the risk of being detained there. The story also appeared in Yahoo! News Canada.
January 16, 2014 - KPCC-Southern California Public Radio
How Asian-Americans on Twitter are telling Hollywood to back off

KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) quoted associate professor of film & digital media L.S. Kim in a story about how Asian-Americans are using Twitter and other social media platforms in place of a public square to express perspectives and assert themselves in the American public discussion.
January 15, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC student honored for musical claymation video game

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about Deirdra "Squinky" Kiai, a first-year student in UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media MFA program (DANM), who was named a finalist in four categories of the 2014 Independent Game Festival Awards, also quoting Noah Wardrip-Fruin, chair of the DANM program.
January 14, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC alumni glow in TV spotlight

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured an article about the success of two UCSC alumni in television, spotlighting Andy Samberg who received a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actor in a TV Series Comedy", and the premiere of Cary Fukunaga's hot new HBO series, True Detective.
January 20, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
Astronomers catch a strand of 'cosmic web' in quasar's bright light

Astronomers Sebastiano Cantalupo and Xavier Prochaska were quoted in coverage of their discovery of a quasar illuminating a filament of the 'cosmic web,' including stories in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Nature, BBC News, UPI, Science News, National Geographic, New Scientist, Ars Technica, Independent, Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, French Tribune, Nature World News, National Post (Canada), Economic Times, Times of India, io9, TGDaily, Gizmodo, Astronomy magazine, Daily Galaxy, SpaceRef, and many more, including news outlets throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia.
January 15, 2014 - Good Times
Big Data

A cover story on "big data" in the Good Times weekly features UCSC experts David Haussler and Ethan Miller.
January 16, 2014 - National Geographic
Mystery Solved: How Do Dolphins Swim So Fast?

Biologist Terrie Williams was quoted in news stories from National Geographic and others about a study using dolphins Primo and Puka at Long Marine Lab to determine how dolphins are able to swim so fast. Stories also ran in Science Codex, PhysOrg, Top News, Zee News, International Business Standard, Newstrack India, and others.
January 10, 2014 - Genome Web
UCSC Team Adds TARGET Data to CGHub, Prepares to Accommodate CGCI Project

Bioinformatics experts David Haussler and Linda Rosewood were quoted in stories about new features in UCSC's Cancer Genomics Hub, a data portal used by cancer researchers throughout the country, including coverage from GenomeWeb, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Inside Bay Area, BioSpace, MedicalXpress, Health Canal, Science Daily, and Digital Me.
December 27, 2013 - Santa Cruz
UCSC alumni speak on the writing field

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about the Humanities Division's Living Writers series, quoting literature professor Michah Perks, as well as alumni authors Reyna Grande and Molly Antopol, and award-winning journalist Martha Mendoza.
January 10, 2014 - Oregon Herald
Deep-Sea Expedition Could Reveal How Continents Form

Geologist James Gill was quoted in stories about a deep-sea expedition he is leading that ran in the Oregon Herald, LiveScience, and Yahoo News in the U.K., Malaysia, South Africa, and UAR.
December 23, 2013 - The New Yorker
The Intelligent Plant

Plant biologist Lincoln Taiz was quoted extensively in a New Yorker magazine article about a controversial field some have called "plant neurobiology."
January 08, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Maverix Biomics, co-founded by UCSC professor, announces funding

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about Maverix Biomics, a biotech startup cofounded by biomolecular engineer Todd Lowe. It was also covered in biotech newsletter BioInform.
January 08, 2014 - San Francisco Chronicle
Coast getting little radiation from Fukushima disaster

The San Francisco Chronicle quoted Daniel Hirsch, lecturer in nuclear policy, in an article debunking reports of elevated radiation levels on the California coast emanating from the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
January 08, 2014 - New York Times
Preventing Civil War in South Sudan: Christian Leaders Should Resume Activism

Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics and legal studies, was invited to contribute to the New York Times online feature "Room for Debate" on crisis in South Sudan.
January 08, 2014 - Los Angeles Times
Bright ancient galaxies offer rare glimpse of early universe

The discovery of four brilliant galaxies, among the earliest and most distant ever seen, by a team lead by UCSC astronomers Garth Illingworth and Pascal Oesch received widespread media coverage, including stories from the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Associated Press (appearing in hundreds of media outlets throughout the country), BBC News, CBC (Canada), Reuters, Telegraph, Australian, New York Post, Huffington Post, Fox News, LiveScience, Space.com, Astronomy, SFGate, and many others.
January 05, 2014 - San Jose Mercury News
Coyotes developing taste for beach food, study finds

Research on the changing diets of coyotes in coastal California led by graduate student Rachel Reid and paleoecologist Paul Koch was covered in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and other media.
December 31, 2013 - USA Today
The starfish are dying, and no one knows why

Marine biologist Pete Raimondi continues to be quoted in news coverage of sea star wasting syndrome, including an article from USA Today that was widely reprinted in newspapers throughout the country.
January 25, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
UCSC researcher leads cancer's digital revolution

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of bioinformatics expert and cancer researcher David Haussler. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times.
January 24, 2014 - Nature
A star is born: the updated Human Reference Genome

A Nature story about the release of a more complete version of the human genome reference sequence cites the work of a UCSC team led by Karen Miga and Jim Kent to produce the centromere sequences.
January 25, 2014 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Gamers could help debug military code

Computer scientists Jim Whitehead and Heather Logas were quoted in stories about their work on an iPad game that helps debug computer code, with coverage from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and Inside Bay Area.
December 23, 2013 - Red Orbit
Size And Location Of 2012 Costa Rica Earthquake Anticipated By Scientists

Seismologist Susan Schwartz was quoted in stories about her research on earthquakes in Costa Rica from RedOrbit, LA Weekly, Science Daily, Innovations Report, Nature World News, and others.
January 03, 2014 - Foreign Policy
Crafting Peace in South Sudan

Writing in Foreign Policy, Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics, outlines several steps that aid groups and allies of South Sudan can do to help curtail violence and craft a lasting peace for the world's newest country.
December 28, 2013 - NPR Weekend Edition
On The Trail Of A Mountain Lion, Hunters Hope To Help

A KQED report on the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project was broadcast on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. The online version includes a video of a mountain lion being captured and fitted with a tracking collar.
December 26, 2013 - Good Times
Blazing the Trails of Science - UC Santa Cruz’s top scientific breakthroughs of 2013

The Santa Cruz Good Times highlighted many of UCSC's research accomplishments in a year-end feature.