Media Coverage
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Illustrated History
The Santa Cruz Good Times ran a profile of alumnus Thom Zajac, a graduate of the UC Santa Cruz creative writing program, who is now celebrating his 30th anniversary as founder and publisher of the Santa Cruz Comic News.
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Big Bang Mystery Extends Into Nearby Galaxy, Puzzling Cosmologists
Physicist Joel Primack was quoted in a National Geographic story about the cosmological implications of unexpectedly low measurements of lithium in stars.
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Wildlife energy: Survival of the fittest
Biologist Terrie Williams is featured in a Nature news story about her lab's research on the physiology and energetics of wild animals.
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Sage Rush
The Santa Cruz Good Times published a profile of humanities lecturer Gary Young, the acclaimed poet and director of UCSC’s Cowell Press, who served as Santa Cruz's first official poet laureate.
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UCSC alum wins Emmy for HBO's "True Detective"
The San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Contra Costa Times ran a story about 1999 history graduate Cary Fukunaga, who won the 2014 "Outstanding Director for a Drama Series" Emmy Award for the HBO series "True Detective."
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Ancient Egyptian Art Opens Window on Mammal Extinctions
Biologist Justin Yeakel's research on extinctions of large mammals over 6,000 years of Egyptian history was covered by NBC News, Smithsonian, LiveScience, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Popular Archaeology, Archaeology magazine, Yahoo News, Oregon Herald, Science Daily, Science Newsline, Tech Times, Science 2.0, International Business Times, UPI, Latin Post, Europa Press, and other…
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Sea star population slowly recovers from wasting syndrome
Biologist Pete Raimondi was interviewed about sea star wasting syndrome on southern California public radio station KPCC.
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Is There a Future for Wilderness?
Scientific American quoted Michael Soulé, professor emeritus of environmental studies, in a column ruminating on the notion of wilderness in the United States.
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What ‘age segregation’ does to America
Psychology professor Barbara Rogoff was quoted in a Boston Globe article about how we tend to segregate ourselves according to age.
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UC Santa Cruz grad Fernando Carrillo is always up for a challenge
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about recent grad Fernando Carrillo who has a paid internship designing game in Silicon Valley.
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Big surf takes a bite out of beaches
Gary Griggs was quoted in an Orange County Register article about large storm waves removing sand from beaches.
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UC Santa Cruz undergrads in iGem competition
A team of UCSC undergraduates working on a synthetic biology project were featured on KSBW TV.