Media Coverage

Global Times included comments from literature professor Chris Connery in a story about how the Shanghai government created socialist villages for model workers in 1952 to solve the severe accommodation shortages for Shanghai's 3 million workers after the city's liberation in 1951.

Physicist Joel Primack is featured in an article and video on the Big Think platform.

Britain's The Guardian interviewed Film and Digital Media emeritus professor Chip Lord about an irreverent reenactment of the famed Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination by the the Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective Lord co-founded, commenting on the media portrayal of the event.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a city/university effort to collect and divert from the waste stream cast-offs stemming from students leaving off-campus housing.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about future city water policy, UCSC's role and how the university has far exceeded city water-use reduction targets.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about the UC Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Project and its director Glenn Stewart's work in reestablishing the bald eagle in California. The Monterey County Herald also published the article and the Sentinel later editorialized in favor of the project.

Chancellor Blumenthal was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education for an article on university presidents who assumed the top job after a crisis. The journal also featured him in a sidebar.

The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about a natural language search engine (ThisPlusThat.me) developed by physics graduate student Chris Moody, also covered in the Houston Chronicle.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the visit of 100 middle school students to UCSC for the Algebra Academy program.

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in an NBC News story about the discovery of a volcano beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

History professor Dana Frank contributed a piece to The Nation about how four years after a military coup deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, Hondurans have a chance with their November 24 elections to restore a measure of democracy.

Santa Cruz's Good Times Weekly interviewed art professor Beth Stephens for a lengthy cover story about her new film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain, an enviromental documentary about taking peformance art to the coal communities of West Virginia to fight the practice of mountaintop removal mining.