Media Coverage

Professor of Film and Digtal Media B. Ruby Rich was interviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program about the controversial new French film, Blue Is the Warmest Color, which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival and just opened in American cinemas.

The Santa Cruz Good Times Weekly featured an interview with emeritus dean of humanities and professor of literature Helene Moglen about her upcoming talk for UCSC’s annual Emeriti Faculty Lecture, where she spoke on the topic “From Frankenstein to Facebook."

Inside Bay Area, the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about UCSC hosting an exhibit in the Humanities Division commemorating the 100th birthday of the French Nobel Prize winning author and philosopher Albert Camus.

World Politics Review and Costa Rica's Tico Times quoted history professor Dana Frank in stories about the upcoming elections in Honduras in November.

Film and Digital Media professor Peter Limbrick was interviewed on KZSC radio's "Artists on Art" program about a two-day symposium on Arab film and visual culture that he organized at UCSC, featuring artists and scholars from Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Canada, Europe, and the U.S. An article also appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

The Daily Kos blog featured a detailed piece on what it's like to take UCSC's first online Coursera class, The Holocaust, taught by  emeritus history professor Peter Kenez and professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murray Baumgarten.

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a Monterey Herald story about how the government shutdown affected Antarctic research projects. The story also ran in Inside Bay Area and other outlets.

Marine biologist Pete Raimondi is featured in widespread coverage of sea star wasting disease, which is devastating sea star populations along the west coast, including stories from the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Santa Barbara Independent, Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Huffington Post, Time, SF Weekly,…

Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a story about red tides along the coast in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel.