Media Coverage

Marine biologist Mark Carr was quoted in coverage of a study showing that California's marine protected areas have been successful in allowing fish populations to recover, including stories from the Associated Press, San Jose Mercury News, KQED News online, Orange County Register, Eureka Times-Standard, and other newspapers throughout the state.

Theater Arts professor Kimberly Jannarone was interviewed along with actress Nancy Carlin on the “7th Avenue Project”—a weekly radio program by producer Robert Pollie on the Monterey Bay's NPR affiliate KUSP—about a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt that she is directing at UCSC.

The Monterey Herald, San Jose Mercury News,  Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about arts alumnus Rick Carter, who just received the second Academy Award of his career for production design on Steven Spielberg's acclaimed film "Lincoln."

The Los Angeles Times featured a story about Theater Arts alum Dency Nelson, who has worked as a stage manager for 25 years and helped guide jittery stars at the Oscars and numerous other awards shows. Portland's KRCW-TV picked up the story.

The San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Santa Cruz Sentinel and Long Beach Press-Telegram ran a story about a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation awarded to Humanities professors Sandra Chung and Matthew Wagers to investigate language comprehension in the Mariana Islands.

An interview with UCSC alumna Maya Rudolph by DONATELLA VERSACE and INGRID SISCHY for Interview Magazine noted that Rudolph majored in photography at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a front page story about former WWII POW Eddie Fung, who now lives at UCSC with his wife– American Studies emeritus professor Judy Yung–who was interviewed and is editor of the book, "The Adventures of Eddie Fung." The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News.

A writer for Forbes.com noted the work of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems in an article about changing the way we eat.

Astronomer Alis Deason's research on the Milky Way galaxy's outer halo stars was featured in Astronomy magazine, NBC News online, Space.com, Universe Today, Red Orbit, and Asian News International.

Inside Higher Ed quoted Humanities dean William Ladusaw in an essay about what digital scholarship "counts'" for tenure and promotion.