Media Coverage

VentureBeat featured an academic reivew of Grand Theft Auto V by UCSC assistant professor of Film and Digital Media Soraya Murray.

Astrophysicist Greg Laughlin was quoted in a New Scientist article about a new understanding of what keeps satellites in orbit around the Earth.

A story in The Christian Science Monitor about the ongoing work to preserve and restore the films of acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray, noted the work of emeritus history professor Dilip Basu and UCSC's Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on the year-opening meeting of the Smith Renaissance Society.

Arboretum research director Stephen McCabe was quoted in articles about research on a rare plant whose populations burned in a recent fire, including stories from CBS News, Ventura County Star, and Associated Press.

Biomolecular engineer Josh Stuart was featured in coverage of his work on the Pan-Cancer project, which found genomic patterns across 12 types of cancer, including stories in the Los Angeles Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Nature, The Scientist, Seattle Herald, Columbus Dispatch, Associated Press, Medical News Today, Science Codex, Cancer Research UK, MedIndia, Health Canal, Technology…

The Jewish Journal ran a story about a new gift from the Helen Diller Family to UC Santa Cruz that will "further enhance its reputation as a leading center for Jewish and Holcaust studies in northern California." An article about the gift also appeared in the SF Bay Area's J Weekly.

Santa Cruz Sentinel columnist Kirby Scudder interviewed Sesnon Galley director Shelby Graham about a new exhibit at UCSC featuring works by the late San Francisco artist Charles Griffin Farr, who gifted his paintings and drawings to UCSC's Arts Division.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about the screening of a short film about artist and longtime UCSC professor Eduardo Carrillo, who taught painting, drawing and other subjects for 25 years until his death in 1997, and was a founding member of  Oakes College.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about recent Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) graduate Laura Wright, who creates art in "hacked technologies" and is teaching a class this fall at UCSC for incoming DANM students calleld "Introduction to Electronics for Artmaking."