Media Coverage
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‘Lost Landscapes’ address S.F.’s future
The San Francisco Examiner ran a story about flm and digital media professor Rick Prelinger and his annual feature-length theater presentation of rare, rescanned film clips of classic San Francisco footage.
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Santa Cruz student-run free health clinic increasingly popular
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about community health clinics organized by the UC Santa Cruz student-run group, Community Aid and Resources or CARe.
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A Race Against Extinction
Disease ecologist Marm Kilpatrick published an article about deadly wildlife pathogens that are devastating animal populations around the world, including white-nose syndrome in bats, west nile virus in birds, and chytridiomycosis in amphibians.
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Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals
Paleoecologists Paul Koch and Justin Yeakel were quoted in a story on Mongabay about their research on ancient Egyption ecosystems.
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Sit-Down Strike at Walmart and Win? It's Been Done
History professor Dana Frank contributed an op-ed to The Huffington Post about a sit-down strike at a Walmart store in Los Angeles, protesting Walmart's retaliation against co-workers who spoke out for a $15 wage and for stable, full-time hours.
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Tagging Marks Many Animals for Death
Biologist Daniel Costa was quoted in a Discovery News article about a study showing that acoustic tags scientists use to track fish can attract predators such as seals to the tagged fish.
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Walmart workers prepare for 'huge' Black Friday protests
The Christian Science Monitor and the San Diego Free Press quoted history professor Dana Frank about income inequality in stories about the first in-store sit-down strike in Walmart history. Yahoo News also picked up the story.
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Theater: Bay Area theater finally has its own awards
The San Francisco Chronicle published a story about the inaugural Theatre Bay Area awards celebration, noting that the "redoubtable" professor of theater arts Danny Scheie won for outstanding performance by a male actor for The Comedy of Errors at California Shakespeare Theater.
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Molecular Biologist Sofie Salama: The Story of Jumping Genes
Molecular biologist Sofie Salama was interviewed on KUSP's "7th Avenue Project" about her research on jumping genes.
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Can Cirque du Soleil top itself with 'Kurios'?
The San Jose Mercury News quoted theater arts professor Patty Gallagher in a story about Cirque du Soleil.
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Seymour Center a window into world of ocean research
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center was featured in a cover story for a special section on Santa Cruz in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, with quotes from director Julie Barrett Heffington and aquarium curator Peter Macht.
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Massive starfish die-off in Pacific Ocean linked to mystery virus
Biologist Pete Raimondi was quoted in widespread media coverage of the discovery of a virus linked to sea star wasting disease, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Verge, LiveScience, Seattle Times, National Geographic News, Nature, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Los Angeles Daily…