Media Coverage
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California cracks down on last beachfront sand-mining operation in U.S.
Geologist Gary Griggs is quoted in a San Jose Mercury News story about efforts to shut down a sand mining operation in Monterey County.
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Life's origins by land or sea? Debate gets hot
Biochemist David Deamer is quoted in an article about the origins of life in Scientific American and Chemistry World.
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A historian of the American West shares her insights
The New Yorker magazine featured an article about humanities alumna Patricia Limerick and a talk she gave in Burns, Oregon, near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, to both supporters and opponents of last year’s six-week takeover by armed protesters.
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Go face to face with elephant seals in VR
Graduate students Caroline Casey and Rachel Holser and their research on elephant seals at Año Nuevo are featured in an episode of USA Today's virtual reality series "VRtually There", distributed on the USA Today Network to media outlets throughout the country.
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The Long, Dirty History of U.S. Warmongering against North Korea
Christine Hong, associate professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, contributed an article to The Progressive, giving a historical perspective to the current rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.
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Researchers track down name of mystery girl uncovered in SF a year ago
Biomolecular engineer Ed Green was quoted in stories from NBC Bay Area, CBS San Francisco, Los Angeles Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel about how his DNA analysis helped identify a child whose coffin was unearthed in a San Francisco backyard.
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Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp: Verve Coffee in Tokyo, LifeAid on Inc 500
Engineers John Felts, Marco Rolandi, and Xiaolin Zhang were among the entrepreneurs featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about local start-up companies.
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Bald eagle chick hatches in Milpitas and the public goes nuts
Biologist Glenn Stewart was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about bald eagles nesting in Milpitas.
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This land is our land
Western Art and Architecture magazine featured associate professor of film and digital media John Jota Leaños in a story about an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum titled Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, which includes his animation installation, "Destinies Manifest." Hyperallergic also reviewed Leaños's work in a story titled Reframing the American West Through…
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The future is in interactive storytelling
Computational media professors Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas published an article in the Conversation on the future of interactive storytelling.
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Chatbot challenges will make AIs discuss the latest news
Computer scientist Marilyn Walker was quoted in a New Scientist article about chatbots.
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What Will Future Historians Say About President Trump's First 100 Days? Here Are 11 Guesses
Associate professor of history Alice Yang was featured in a Time magazine story that asked a variety of experts to weigh in on a single question: "What will historians of the future say about President Trump's first 100 days?"