Media Coverage

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.

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.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel dropped by the Chadwick Garden for one of Orin Martin's Garden Cruz organic gardening classes for the community.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News noted that UCSC has expanded its Zipcar fleet to 10 cars in five locations.