Media Coverage
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U.S. has hand in Honduran mess: A Latin America specialist says the U.S. shares blame for children crossing into the country from Central America
The Seattle Times featured a story about history professor Dana Frank and her research on Honduras, noting that things have gotten even worse since Frank had an opinion piece published in the New York Times two years ago with the headline warning: “In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U.S.”
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US-Funded Research a Waste? Scientists Refute ‘Wastebook’ Criticism
Biologist Terrie Williams is among the scientists quoted in a Live Science article refuting Senator Tom Coburn's criticisms of NSF funding for basic scientific research.
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Worldwide Surge in 'Great' Earthquakes Seen in Past 10 Years
Seismologist Thorne Lay was featured in a NBC News story on great earthquakes and the risk of a major quake on the Cascadia fault in the Pacific Northwest.
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UCSC professor honored for prison research
Psychology and legal studies professor Craig Haney, selected to deliver the Faculty Research Lecture, was the focus of a Santa Cruz Sentinel advance story on the 2014 Founders Celebration. The San Jose Mercury News and Contra Cost Times posted it online.
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25 years after Bay Area quake, most don't have earthquake insurance
Marketwatch reporter Daniel Goldstein (Stevenson, '94, politics) set the scene for his Loma Prieta earthquake anniversary article at Stevenson College with quotes from alumni. The article was re-published by a variety of outlets including Yahoo Finance.
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Indonesian puppetry and a festival of West Javanese culture
Theater Arts professor Kathy Foley was featured in The Washington Post and Jakarta Press about a performance and conference at the Smithsonian on theater that is traditional to the Sundanese culture of West Java, Indonesia. Foley was also interviewed by Voice of America radio about contemporary Indonesian performance.
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Outbreak of great quakes underscores Cascadia risk
Seismologist Thorne Lay was featured in coverage of his analysis of recent great earthquakes and their implications for earthquake risk in the Pacific Northwest, including stories in Nature, Science Daily, Science Newsline, and other media outlets.
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Law students, lawyers help UC Santa Cruz students avoid deportation
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a page one feature on a legal clinic for students on campus under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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Incarceration nation
Psychology professor Craig Haney was featured in an article in the American Psychological Association's Monitor magazine on the National Research Council's report on incarceration in America.
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Gerald Casel uses random acts of choreography in 'Visiter’
Theater Arts Professor of Dance Gerald Casel was interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle about his company's performances of “Visiter” at San Francisco’s Joe Goode Annex.
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UC Santa Cruz taps Journey co-creator Robin Hunicke to teach game development
VentureBeat featured a story about acclaimed game designer Robin Hunicke joining the UC Santa Cruz faculty as Associate Professor of Art & Game Design. Articles also appeared in gamesindustry.biz, Gamasutra, and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law
Mathematician Harold Widom is featured in a Quanta magazine article about the Tracy-Widom distribution, a strangely universal statistical distribution that Widom codiscovered.