Media Coverage

Biologists Pete Raimondi, Hannah Perlkin, and Emily Tucker are featured in a Nature news story about efforts to find the cause of sea star wasting syndrome. The story also ran in Scientific American.

Biologist Baldo Marinovic was a guest on the NPR program Here and Now to discuss the unusual abundance of marine wildlife in Monterey Bay this year.

Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about a state ban on recreational harvesting of shellfish from Monterey Bay due to the algal toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning. The story also ran in the Monterey Herald, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and other media.

Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in coverage of the discovery of plumes of water vapor from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, including a Reuters story that was widely published in national and international media outlets, Discovery News, and others.

Biologists Brent Hughes and Tim Tinker were featured in a story on KUSP radio about their research on sea otters in Elkhorn Slough.

Josh Groban sang “UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz," to the tune of "Here Comes Santa Claus" on the CBS Late Show with David Letterman, Wednesday night. The song was Number Ten on the “Top Ten Christmas Songs from 2013." ABC Radio also did a story on the spot.

Venture Beat interviewed game designer John Romero on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Doom, the influential game he codeveloped at id Software.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about the UCSC Arboretum's fundraising efforts.

Professor of literature Wlad Godzich was interviewed on the Public Radio International program, The World, about statues of Vladimir Lenin that can still be found worldwide, following news reports that Ukrainian protesters just took down a statue in Kiev.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about UCSC's Ethics Bowl team and how humanities students research and prepare to tackle tough ethical questions in regional and national competitions.

Game news site Polygon ran a story about the 20th anniversary of Doom, a highly influential computer game developed by John Romero, creative director of the games and playable media M.S.

Computer scientist Jim Whitehead was quoted in stories about a new iPad game his group developed as a way to crowdsource software verification, including stories in the San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Venture Beat, Tech Investory News, The Street, and Houston Chronicle.