Media Coverage

The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled alumnus Andrew Ward, who graduated in 1993 with a BA in art, spotlighting his detailed fish sculptures created out of wood or clay, ranging from salmon to humphead wrasse.

Math lecturer Nandini Bhattacharya was quoted in a story about the Algebra Academy for eighth-graders in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Grain growing at the UC Santa Cruz Farm was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel food article that included comments from Christof Bernau and Darryl Wong of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and from graduates of the farming apprenticeship.

The Atlantic magazine spotlighted Emeritus Professor of Music David Cope in a story about work on new algorithms that can produce original compositions in the style of great composers, noting that he designed EMMY, an emulator named for the acronym of his “Experiments in Musical Intelligence” project at UC Santa Cruz.

An article in Reader's Digest recommending 23 compelling writers featured Literature Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, noting that "in a fair world, these critically acclaimed authors would be rocking the bestseller list."

Bay Nature followed two volunteer researchers with the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group as they watched kestrels in the Santa Cruz area including on campus.

Biologist John Pearse was featured in a Bay Nature story about a coastal monitoring program involving high school students.

History of Art and Visual Culture professor Martin Berger was quoted in a Herald de Paris story about the impact of images from the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The story also ran in Salon.

Professor of Film and Digital Media L.S. Kim was featured on NPR"s syndicated Weekend Edition program in a story about the passing of actor James Shigeta, who broke barriers in film as one of Hollywood's first Asian-American actors to play romantic lead characters.