Media Coverage

Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher was quoted in an Oregon Herald story about a research expedition to the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about Science Communication Program director Rob Irion and his cover story in National Geographic magazine.

Seismologist Emily Brodsky is featured in a Physics Today article about her work on the JFAST project to study the Tohoku earthquake fault off the coast of Japan.

Computer engineer Brad Smith and associate dean of engineering for technology management Brent Haddad were quoted in a three-part series in Xconomy about efforts to encourage high-tech entrepreneurship in Santa Cruz. The series also features alumnus Robert Singleton, highlights UCSC programs in genomics, gaming, and sustainable agriculture, and mentions companies such as 5-3 Genomics started…

Coverage of UCSC's new Hyades supercomputer included stories in Red Orbit, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Thunder Feeds, and eScience News.

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in an article in The Scientist about a report from a team of biologists that they found evidence of life, including crustaceans, worms and fish, in Antarctica's subglacial Lake Vostok.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel, Inside Bay Area, TopNewsToday.org, San Jose Mercury News, and Pasadena Star News featured a story about alumna Bridgette Auger, a 2011 graduate of UCSC's Social Documentation master's program, and her ongoing work with Syrian refugees which was featured as "The Toll of Syria's War" on the CBS News website.

 Science Daily, Science Codex, Medical News Today, RedOrbit.com, Science Newsline, BrightSurf.com, and MedicalXpress.com announced a new study by a research group from UC Santa Cruz in dance that was published in Psychological Science, the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a cover story in their weekly arts pullout section on the Shakespeare Santa Cruz summer festival. interviewing SSC artistic director Marco Barricelli.

Several newspapers in the Pacific northwest carried an article about UCSC alumna Sage Clegg, who is the first person to traverse the new 800-mile Oregon Desert Trail. The article was first published in the Ontario Argus Observer and later reprinted in the Seattle Times, Portland Oregonian, and Idaho Statesman.