Media Coverage

  • Santa Cruz Sentinel

    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.

  • Red Orbit

    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.

  • Foreign Policy

    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.

  • NPR

    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.

  • Good Times

    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.

  • National Geographic

    National Geographic Phenomena

    Bird Cheaters Target Teams, But Teamwork Beats Cheats

    Biologist Bruce Lyon was quoted in a story about research on "brood parasites," birds that lay their eggs in the nests of other species, and cooperative breeding strategies in National Geographic Phenomena.

  • Develop

    Develop

    25 people who changed games in 2013

    Brenda Romero, program director of the games and playable media M.S. program, was featured on Develop's list of the 25 people who changed the games industry in 2013.

  • Haaretz (Tel Aviv

    Harretz (Israel)

    No longer silent: Queer cinema leaves fringe for mainstream

    Israel's oldest daily newspaper, Haaretz, published an extensive story on film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich, and how her new book on queer cinema explains how gay and lesbian films moved from the underground into the mainstream, and why the struggle for gay rights is far from over.

  • Alaska Public Media

    Alaska Public Media

    Chinese-American Descendants Uncover Forged Family Histories

    Professor emerita of humanities Judy Yung was interviewed for a story on Alaska Public Media about the history of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first, and so far only, U.S. federal law to shut out an immigrant group based on nationality, which was repealed in 1943.

  • Nautilus

    Nautilus magazine

    Have Money, Won’t Travel: Why do investors prefer to put their money to work at home?

    Writing in Nautilus magazine, associate professor of economics Thomas Wu explores the  geographic choices investors make.

Last modified: Apr 02, 2025