Media Coverage

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.

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.

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."

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.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a UCSC public affairs office press release on dismantling beginning on the Cowell Ranch hay barn.  

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article on a College Nine / Ten service learning project in Live Oak during spring break.

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.

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.

Coverage of sea star wasting disease continues with an article in The Log, California's Boating and Fishing News.