Media Coverage

Chancellor Blumenthal was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education for an article on university presidents who assumed the top job after a crisis. The journal also featured him in a sidebar.

The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about a natural language search engine (ThisPlusThat.me) developed by physics graduate student Chris Moody, also covered in the Houston Chronicle.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the visit of 100 middle school students to UCSC for the Algebra Academy program.

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in an NBC News story about the discovery of a volcano beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

History professor Dana Frank contributed a piece to The Nation about how four years after a military coup deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, Hondurans have a chance with their November 24 elections to restore a measure of democracy.

Santa Cruz's Good Times Weekly interviewed art professor Beth Stephens for a lengthy cover story about her new film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain, an enviromental documentary about taking peformance art to the coal communities of West Virginia to fight the practice of mountaintop removal mining.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, hosted on campus this year by humanities  lecturer and Santa Cruz's first Poet Laureate Gary Young, and featuring celebrated Palestinian/American poet Naomi Shihab Nye.

The Monterey Herald published a story about the 2013 Santa Cruz Film Festival, noting that it featured a showcase of films by UCSC students and that it would be opened by the West Coast premiere of an environmental documenary film co-directed by art professor Beth Stephens about mountaintop removal of coal. A story also appeared…

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about UCSC's multicultural Rainbow Theater, celebrating 20 years of breaking down cultural walls and promoting dialogue. A story also appeared in the Good Times Weekly.

Biologist Giacomo Bernardi was quoted in a Mongabay story about the reproductive lives of coelocanths.