Media Coverage

Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a New Scientist article about the rarity of carbon-rich "diamond" planets in our galaxy.

Seismologists Emily Brodsky and Patrick Fulton were featured in coverage of their work on the JFAST project to study the undersea fault involved in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Pasadena Star-News, Science Daily, Daily Bulletin, and Science Codex.

Time magazine profiled Harry Huskey, professor emeritus of computer science, in its coverage of the Computer History Museum's Fellow Awards. The story includes an audio clip of Huskey's appearance on Groucho Marx's radio quiz show, "You Bet Your Life," in 1950.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about a new smartphone app created by a company co-founded by emeritus music professor David Cope and former assistant arts dean Keith Muscutt, focused on technology stemming from decades of research by Cope in music and artificial intelligence. The story also appeared in engadget.com.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered Alumni Reunion Weekend with an article that 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 Santa Cruz Sentinel covered a panel discussion on online education. The article was also published online by the San Jose Mercury News, Pasadena Star-News, Monterey County Herald, Long Beach Press Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

NPR's StoryCorps featured Professor J. Herman Blake talking with his brother Simon about their early years growing up outside New York City and the woman responsible for the Blake siblings going to college. The online version included a link to the UCSC Alumni Reunion Weekend site and the J. Herman Blake Tribute dinner.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured an article about the annual exhibition of the interdisciplinary Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program, representing the culmination of two years of intensive study by UCSC graduate students.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about how Shakespeare Santa Cruz has joined forces with Santa Cruz’s Jewel Theatre Company to present two one-act plays by Harold Pinter in downtown Santa Cruz.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about an upcoming concert at Kuumbwa Jazz Center where UCSC music lecturer Mesut Özgen will direct the Santa Cruz Guitar Orchestra in a joint concert with the New Music Works Ensemble.

The San Jose Mercury News and NBC Bay Area covered the trek Glenn Stewart, director of the UCSC Predatory Bird Research Group, took to San Jose City Hall to identify and band three peregrine falcon chicks born there.