Media Coverage
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Discovery News
Dark Lightning Zaps Airline Passengers
Physicist David Smith was quoted in a Discovery News story about "dark lightning" in thunderstorms that may expose airline passengers to gamma rays.
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Science News
Distant planets’ atmospheres revealed
Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a Science News article about the first study to analyze the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system.
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ArtNews
Where Art and Science Collide
A story in ARTnews magazine–the most widely circulated art magazine in the world–quoted associate art professor Jennifer Parker (co-director of UCSC's Open Lab) about the expanding world of art and science, also noting that Arts Dean David Yager "is now trying to build momentum for the university's planned Museum of the Arts and Sciences, one…
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Washington Post
Hi Kyung Kim reveals mastery of Asian and Western genre-blending
The Washington Post published a rave review of “Thousand Gates,” a multicultural, collaborative concert featuring works by UCSC music professor Hi Kyung Kim at the Smithsonian Institution that featured a blend of Korean folk and Western classical music.
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New Scientist
Outcast black holes surround the Milky Way
New findings on galaxy formation and black holes by astrophysicists Piero Madau and Valery Rashkov were covered by New Scientist and io9.
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ABC News
Elephant Seals Could Reveal Insights on Planet's Health
Biologist Dan Costa was featured in a story about elephant seals on ABC News online.
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New York Times
Indies Grab the Controls at a Game Conference
Game designer in residence Brenda Romero was quoted in a New York Times article about the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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NPR Weekend Edition
Sea Lion Keeps The Beat In Pursuit Of Science
Coverage of Ronan the beat-keeping sea lion continued over the weekend on NPR, where Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon interviewed graduate student Peter Cook and Ronan's groove-finding ability was the answer to a question on the NPR news quiz show Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me.
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IndieWire
"Write Fast" – B. Ruby Rich Remembers Roger Ebert
UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media, film critic, and author B. Ruby Rich remembers Roger Ebert for IndieWire.
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McClatchy Newspapers
In shift on immigration, GOP takes cues from California
McClatchy Newspapers turned to Jonathan Fox, chair of the Latin American and Latino studies department, for comment in an article on immigration policies nationally and in California. The article was published in newspapers and websites across the country.
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Democracy Now with Amy Goodman
New Era of Nuclear-Armed North Korea Forces U.S. to Reconsider War Games at Regime’s Door
UCSC assistant professor of literature Christine Hong, an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, was interviewed by Amy Goodman on the daily global independent news hour Democracy Now, providing a critical, progressive analysis of the increasing tension between the U.S. and North Korea over nuclear weapons threats.
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Oxford University Press
Exclusion and the LGBT life course
Oxford University Press asked psychology professor Phillip L. Hammack to write a blog post about the U.S. Supreme Court hearings on marriage equality.