Media Coverage

Earth scientists Patrick Fulton, Emily Brodsky, and Casey Moore were all quoted in coverage of new results from the JFAST investigation of the Tohoku fault that caused the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, including stories from the New York Times, LiveScience, Nature, Mashable, U.S. News & World Report, Christian Science Monitor, Smithsonian, National…

Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro and geneticist Ed Green, both experts on ancient DNA, were quoted in coverage of new findings from ancient DNA recovered from 400,000-year-old human fossils. Shapiro was quoted in the New York Times and Green in USA Today, and both articles were reprinted widely in other news outlets.

Brenda Romero, program director for the M.S. in games and playable media, was quoted in an article about changing attitudes toward computer games in Eurogamer and U.S. Gamer. Her board game 'Train' was also covered in Wired magazine in December.

Biologist Pete Raimondi was featured in coverage of the sea star wasting syndrome on NBC Nightly News.

The San Francisco Chronicle quoted social science professor Julie Guthman in an article about food stamps and junk food. The article was republished by the blog GOPUSA.

The Washington Post quoted history professor Dana Frank about the upcoming elections in Honduras, where she noted that the vote will be “a new test” for the Obama administration, which initially denounced the 2009 coup against Zelaya but later recognized the post-coup government. Frank also contributed a piece about the elections to Foreign Affairs.

Marine biologist Baldo Marinovic is quoted in a New York Times article about the abundance of anchovies that has attracted large numbers of whales to Monterey Bay this year. The story also ran in the Herald Tribune.

Astronomer Garth Illingworth is featured in an article in USA Today about the search for the most distant galaxies. The story was distributed by AP and ran in many newspapers and other news outlets throughout the country.

IndieWire interviewed UCSC arts alumni Kimerly Bautista (Social Documentation masters degree in film production), whose film "Justice for My Sister" recently received the "Best Documentary" award at the 16Tth annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.

Marine biologists Pete Raimondi and John Pearse were quoted in a Washington Post article about the sea star wasting disease.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel announced that acclaimed opera, theater and festival director Peter Sellars will be the featured guest at UCSC's 13th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture, speaking on the topic "Creativity, Innovation and the Arts."

Global Times included comments from literature professor Chris Connery in a story about how the Shanghai government created socialist villages for model workers in 1952 to solve the severe accommodation shortages for Shanghai's 3 million workers after the city's liberation in 1951.