Media Coverage
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George Blumenthal: Public higher education can again transform California
In an op-ed published in the San Francisco Chronicle Chancellor Blumenthal asked: Are we content to offer today’s students, who are more racially and socioeconomically diverse than ever, less than their predecessors received?
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UC Santa Cruz sets record for longest granola bar
The Santa Cruz Sentinel was was on top of the baking beat as it covered the record-beating granola bar created at UCSC’s College 9/10 dining hall during the Pacific Regional Conference of the National Association of College and University Food Services. The trade journal Food Management also reported on the 420-foot feat.
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UCSC plans to build recycling yard to solve compost problem
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a plan to create a new recycling yard on campus including a composting facility.
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Earth's most powerful physics machine gets back in action
Physicist Howard Haber is quoted in a Wired news story about the restart of the Large Hadron Collider.
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Once-wild Jupiter may explain our unusual solar system
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was featured in widespread coverage of his research on the formation of our solar system, including stories from the San Jose Mercury News, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Herald, Contra Costa Times, Daily Mail, Australian, Science News, Discovery News, Space.com, New Scientist, Mashable, Huffington Post, Salon, Scientific American, Yahoo News, CNN.com, Forbes, Astronomy…
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SFMOMA project explores games as art
Robin Hunicke, associate professor of game design in the Art Department, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about PlaySFMOMA, a program that recognizes games as an expressive medium and aims to link the museum to the local design community.
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Andrew Jarecki's 'The Jinx' marks documentaries' big shift in real time
The Los Angeles Times quoted associate professor of film and digital media Jonathan Kahana, who talked about the historical significance of the film "The Thin Blue Line" in a story about the changes that have taken place over the years in true-crime documentary films.
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New Breed of Solar Panels Fine-Tunes Light for Crops
Santa Cruz Tech Beat ran a story about new solar panel technology for greenhouses developed by physicists Sue Carter and Glenn Alers.
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Cowell Ranch Hay Barn bridges past and future at UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a page one article on the timber raising for the revived Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. KSBW and San Jose Mercury News also had coverage.
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Daniel Wirls: Gridlock in Washington? Not when it comes to military spending
The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by politics professor Daniel Wirls on the continued rise in military spending.
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This bad boy geneticist wants to clone a mammoth
Biologist Beth Shapiro is quoted in a Wired news story about scientists who want to clone a woolly mammoth.
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Quasar backlighting gives weight to Andromeda galaxy
Astronomer Jason Prochaska was quoted in a New Scientist story about a new study of the Andromeda galaxy.