Media Coverage
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Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart helps to pay tribute to late UC Santa Cruz professor
The San Jose Mercury News, Inside Bay Area, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart paying tribute to the late music professor Fred Lieberman at a UCSC event celebrating his life and work, including comments from Chancellor Blumenthal and arts dean David Yager.
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Dana Frank: Hernández's election was built on corruption
The Houston Chronicle published an op-ed from history professor Dana Frank describing how U.S. support for new leaders in Honduras is misguided and unethical.
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Meet the newest winners of the Rydell Fellowships of Visual Art
Professor of art Elizabeth Stephens was featured in a cover story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel's arts and entertainment pullout section as one of three Santa Cruz artists who received a 2014 -15 Rydell Fellowship.
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Dickens film 'The Invisible Woman' has a Santa Cruz twist
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about the Dickens Project at UCSC, inteviewing literature professor John Jordan, director of the program, which is now in its 34th year on campus.
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New Technique Could Demystify Ancient Human DNA
Ancient DNA expert Beth Shapiro was quoted in a Live Science story about a new technique for obtaining ancient DNA sequences from contaminated fossils.
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DNA shows ancient hunter had blue eyes, dark skin
Ancient DNA expert Beth Shapiro was quoted in an Associated Press story about work by other researchers on the genome of a hunter-gatherer who lived 7,000 years ago in Europe. The story ran in a broad range of national and international media outlets, including the Washington Post, Salon, Yahoo News, Seattle Times, Californian, and many…
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Mark Fathi Massoud: How grass-roots peace can take hold in South Sudan
Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics and legal studies, says a cease-fire in South Sudan is a positive first step but grassroots efforts are needed to forge a lasting peace.
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Short on Ocean Data, Scientists Turn to Seals for Help
Climate Central ran a story about research led by marine biologist Dan Costa using seals to carry instruments for monitoring ocean conditions.
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Venerable Lick Observatory Faces Funding Cut
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in a California Report story about budget cuts at Lick Observatory.
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River Roulette: Randomness Controls Erosion
Geologist Noah Finnegan was quoted in a story about his research on how fast rivers erode rock in Live Science, Yahoo News, and Yahoo South Africa.
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Detention of US tourists to North Korea unusual
The Seattle Times quoted assistant professor of literature (East Asian Studies) Christine Hong in an article about Americans visiting North Korea despite strong warnings from the U.S. State Department, and the risk of being detained there. The story also appeared in Yahoo! News Canada.
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How Asian-Americans on Twitter are telling Hollywood to back off
KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) quoted associate professor of film & digital media L.S. Kim in a story about how Asian-Americans are using Twitter and other social media platforms in place of a public square to express perspectives and assert themselves in the American public discussion.