Media Coverage
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Volunteers Keep Round-the-Clock Watch Over San Jose's Peregrine Falcon Chicks
Biologist Glenn Stewart was featured in an NBC News story about the "Falcon Watch" volunteers who observe fledgling peregrine falcons in downtown San Jose.
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Q & A with Micah Perks: author of Alone in the Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter, and Me
Bay Area Parent magazine interviewed Micah Perks, professor of literature and co-director of the UCSC Creative Writing Program, about her new memoir about women in the wilderness, released as an e-book on Shebooks.
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UC Santa Cruz students learn language through theater
The Santa Cruz Sentinel interviewed Miriam Ellis, professor emeritus of French, plus several language students for a story about UCSC's International Playhouse, a showcase of foreign language theater, noting that the playhouse was renamed in Ellis's honor this year thanks to the establishment of an endowment to help with operating costs.
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San Francisco et le cinéma
Film and Digital Media professor Peter Limbrick was interviewed in French for a special segment on "San Francisco and Cinema," which aired on France Inter, the French public radio channel, in connection with its Cannes Film Festival coverage.
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UCSC's Nathaniel Mackey receives major poetry award
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about Nathaniel Mackey, professor emeritus of literature, who was named the winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2014 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement.
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Theater review: UCSC's 'Rent' shows a lot of heart, and skin
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a review of the UCSC student production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, Rent, directed by Theater Arts Professor Danny Scheie.
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Bridging the Coasts: Bay Area Figurative Painters at Yale
Brooklyn-based arts blogazine Hyperallergic profiled UCSC alumnus Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Strange Rocks Found in Earth's Crustal Graveyard
Earth scientist Quentin Williams is quoted in a story about rocks in the deep mantle from Live Science, Yahoo News, and the Huffington Post.
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Physics panel to feds: Beam us up some neutrinos
Physicist Steve Ritz, who chaired the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, was quoted in news coverage of the panel's recommendations, including an Associated Press article that ran in the Sacramento Bee, Newsday, U.S. News & World Report, and hundreds of newspapers and other media across the country, as well as stories in Symmetry magazine and…
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U.S. deploys 80 troops to Chad to help find kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls
The Washington Post interviewed Paul Lubeck, emeritus professor of sociology, about the Nigerian military and Boko Haram for an article on the U.S. sending 80 military personnel to Nigeria to help search for kidnapped schoolgirls.
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The Barbie Effect: Toys make a difference in children’s aspirations
Psychology professor Eileen Zurbriggen's study of how girls' views of career options are affected by playing with Barbie dolls was featured in the online version of The American Scholar, the quarterly literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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40 under 40: Professors Who Inspire
Nerd Wallet, an online personal finance site for millennials, selected assistant economics professor Alan Spearot as one of its "40 under 40: Professors Who Inspire" in its Nerd Scholar section.