Media Coverage

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.