Media Coverage

Biomolecular engineer Camilla Forsberg is quoted in a Scientific American story about new findings on the development of blood stem cells.

Geologist Gary Griggs was interviewed by KION TV for a story about climate change.

Physicist Anthony Aguirre is quoted in an article about prediction markets in Nature.

Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in coverage of research showing that the European bison descended from hybridization of two extinct species, the steppe bison and the auroch (ancestor of cattle), including stories in the Daily Mail, PhysOrg, Popular Archaeology, Archaeology News, Post Online, and other media outlets.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about astronomer Ryan Foley, who has received a Packard Fellowship.

Biologist Todd Newberry is quoted in an Audubon article about the white hummingbird that has been seen in the UCSC Arboretum, as well as a San Francisco Chronicle story which also quotes Arboretum director Martin Quigley.

Santa Cruz Tech Beat published an interview with Rob Currie, the new CTO for the UCSC Genomics Institute.

Biologist Patrick Robinson is quoted in an AP wire story about Phyllis the elephant seal's record-setting swim across the North Pacific, which was widely published in outlets ranging from the Daily Mail (U.K.) to San Francisco Chronicle.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a front page story about 'Mothers of Men,' a 1917 women’s suffrage film shot on location in Santa Cruz, that was found and restored by a graduate of UC Santa Cruz’s Film & Digital Media Department.

VentureBeat featured an interview with Robin Hunicke, director of art and design in the Games and Playable Media program at UC Santa Cruz.

International Business Times interviewed B. Ruby Rich, professor of film & digital media and social documentation, for a story about the new film “Birth of a Nation" by Nate Parker, who took his film's name from D.W. Griffith's 1915 movie that was Ku Klux Klan propaganda.