Media Coverage
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Action! Social Action: 'Justice for My Sister' by Kimberly Bautista
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.
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Sea stars are wasting away in larger numbers on a wider scale in two oceans
Marine biologists Pete Raimondi and John Pearse were quoted in a Washington Post article about the sea star wasting disease.
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Peter Sellars to speak at UCSC
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."
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Model homes for model workers
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.
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Dark Matter Reveals the Structure of the Universe
Physicist Joel Primack is featured in an article and video on the Big Think platform.
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Abraham Zapruder: the man behind history's most infamous home movie
Britain's The Guardian interviewed Film and Digital Media emeritus professor Chip Lord about an irreverent reenactment of the famed Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination by the the Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective Lord co-founded, commenting on the media portrayal of the event.
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80 tons of garbage collected after new UCSC move-out program
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a city/university effort to collect and divert from the waste stream cast-offs stemming from students leaving off-campus housing.
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UC Santa Cruz growth plans have implications for reset water supply debate
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about future city water policy, UCSC's role and how the university has far exceeded city water-use reduction targets.
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UC Santa Cruz bald eagle expert shares success story
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Project and its director Glenn Stewart's work in reestablishing the bald eagle in California. The Monterey County Herald also published the article and the Sentinel later editorialized in favor of the project.
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The Fixer President: Leading a College Out of Turmoil
Chancellor Blumenthal was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education for an article on university presidents who assumed the top job after a crisis. The journal also featured him in a sidebar.
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ThisPlusThat.me tries to decode human language
The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about a natural language search engine (ThisPlusThat.me) developed by physics graduate student Chris Moody, also covered in the Houston Chronicle.
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Fun with numbers: Middle school students celebrate math at UCSC
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the visit of 100 middle school students to UCSC for the Algebra Academy program.