Media Coverage
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How a Californian Sea Lion Made My Day
Colleen Reichmuth's pinniped lab at Long Marine Lab and the beat-keeping sea lion Ronan were featured in the Music Matters column in Psychology Today.
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How Making Games Helped Her Deal With Evil
Game news site Kotaku ran an in-depth profile of Brenda Romero, director of the games and playable media master's degree program.
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UCSC alum receives $130,000 fellowship: Program gives industry experience to humanities doctorates
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about Michael Ursell, a 2011 UC Santa Cruz graduate with a Ph.D in Literature, who received a $130,000 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
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IRS loss of emails believed avoidable
Computer scientist Ethan Miller was quoted as an expert on archival storage in stories about the IRS being unable to recover old emails sent by administrators, including stories from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Associated Press, Technology News, and others.
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Passenger Pigeon Extinction Not Caused Solely By Humans, Researchers Say
Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted as an outside expert in stories about passenger pigeon research in the Huffington Post, Scientific American, and Science.
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UCSC students interview local seniors for final project
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about a class at Cowell College inspired by art history professor and founding faculty member Mary Holmes, which included a final project where students interviewed senior citizens about how three recurring themes in Holmes' art played out in their lives.
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Iranian transfer student wins Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about Arash Mohajerinejad, winner of the third Gabriel Zimmerman Memorial Scholarship.
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Sammy Awards Recognize Student-Designed Video Games
Santa Cruz Tech Beat covered the 4th annual Sammy Awards, the culmination of UCSC game design course sequence.
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Climate Change Prompted Migrations in Ancient Peru, Says Genetic Study
Popular Archaeology wrote about a paper by assistant anthropology professor Lars Fehren-Schmitz about his research that uses DNA analysis to trace migrations in ancient Peru to climate change.
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The Economy, Midterm Elections & Personal Finance: What’s in Store for Your Wallet?
Politics chair Dan Wirls and College Eight Provost Ronnie Lipschutz were recently featured in separate "Ask the Experts" pieces, parts of a series published by the website WalletHub. Wirls spoke about the 2014 midterm elections; Lipschutz about the domestic energy revolution.
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Border Children Tell Their Stories: Why We Came to the U.S.
NBC News quoted history professor Dana Frank in a story about the wave of Central American children crossing the U.S. border that is now overwhelming the U.S government, described by the White House as a humanitarian crisis fueled by increasing violence and instability in countries like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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Therapy dogs boost finals week morale at UCSC
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported on Pause for Paws, a program that brings dogs into UCSC's libraries to provide a respite for stressed-out students studying for finals. The Contra Costa Times also published the article.