Media Coverage

ABC7 in San Francisco, NBC Bay Area in San Jose, and KSBW8 and KION46 in the Monterey Bay Area were among the television news outlets reporting on the mountain lion found in downtown Santa Cruz and later repatriated to more appropriate environs in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The story (with great visuals) was also broadcast…

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about UCSC's Puma Project successfully tranquilizing and resettling a young mountain lion that ended up in a downtown Santa Cruz aqueduct. The article was also published in the San Jose Mercury News, Pasadena Star-News, Monterey County Herald, Long Beach Press Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

The Huffington Post joined the list of online news sites reporting on a study of break-ups in the digital age.

The Brooklyn Rail, an independent monthly print journal of arts, politics, and culture with an international online monthly readership of over 500,000, featured an extensive interview with UCSC alumnus Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery.

Wired magazine announced that assistant professor of Film and Digital Media Irene Lusztig was among the winners of a 2013 Triple Canopy commission for a project to create “The Motherhood Archives,” a mediated essay on the medicalization and institutionalization of childbirth and motherhood in America.

GamesIndustry International and ArsTechnica reported on a lecture given by Sim City designer Will Wright as part of the UCSC Arts Division Lecture Series "Engaging the Mind," where he discussed the current state of games and the recent Sim City Online launch.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about alumna author Laurie King and her participation in UCSC's annual Noel Q. King Lecture Series, named after the renowned campus religion scholar, who was also King's husband.

Biologist Marm Kilpatrick, an expert on wildlife disease ecology, was quoted in a National Geographic story about the spread of a deadly fungus that has been wiping out amphibian populations around the world.

Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a Scientific American story, also published on Huffington Post, about the discovery that waves in Saturn's rings are caused by seismic motions in Saturn's interior.

Game news site Gamasutra gave in-depth coverage to the talk by computer scientist Michael Mateas, director of the Center for Games and Playable Media, at the center's Interactive Storytelling Symposium.

Salon mentioned UCSC graduate student Rachael Robnett's study in an article on attitudes regarding marriage proposal traditions.