Media Coverage
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Mud worth more than gold
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk is quoted in a story in Science News for Kids about the WISSARD expedition, which drilled beneath a glacier in Antarctica.
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Volcanic sleeping giant opens North Korean co-operation
Geologist James Gill was quoted in stories from BBC News and Science about a collaborative effort to study a massive volcano on the border of China and North Korea.
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First Trial of Crowdsourced Grading for Computer Science Homework
MIT Technology Review reports on CrowdGrader, an online crowdsourcing tool developed by computer scientist Luca de Alfaro and graduate student Michael Shavlovsky that allows students to grade their classmates' homework and receive credit for the effort they put in.
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Back from the Dead
Geneticists Ben Novak and Beth Shapiro are quoted in an article on the "de-extinction" controversy in Earth Island Journal. The story was reprinted in Salon and EcoWatch.
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Bora’s Picks – Science Notes edition
Scientific American blog editor Bora Zivkovic devoted a column to highlighting the stories in Science Notes, published by students in UCSC's Science Communication Program.
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Patent Watch: Fluorescence Detection of Poison Oak Oil
Scientific American covered chemist Rebecca Braslau's patent on a method for detecting poison oak oil on clothes and tools.
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Santa Cruz poet and printer Gary Young the subject of the latest issue of online literary journal phren-Z
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about UCSC humanities lecturer and alumnus Gary Young, who was honored with a tribute in the latest issue of the Santa Cruz-based online literary magazine phren-Z.
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Titan's icy shell is tougher than previously thought, scientists say
A new study of Saturn's largest moon Titan led by planetary scientists Doug Hemingway and Francis Nimmo garnered widespread news coverage, including stories in the Los Angeles Times,NPR's Morning Edition, Huffington Post, Christian Science Monitor, UPI, Science, Science News, Discover, Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, Voice of America, Latinos Post, Discovery News, ABC Science Online, NBCNews.com,…
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Blood Falls: Antarctica's Stunning Secret
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a story on The Weather Channel news site about Antartica's Blood Falls.
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David Yager's long view for arts at UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel's Kirby Scudder interviewed Arts Division dean David Yager about his vision for the arts at UC Santa Cruz.
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The film academy and American Cinematheque celebrate Satyajit Ray
A Los Angeles Times article noted that emeritus history professor Dilip Basu, founding director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center at UC Santa Cruz, will be a guest at screenings of the restorations of films by Satyajit Ray, hosted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Cinematheque.
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Editorial: UCSC riding wave of online learning
The Santa Cruz Sentinel Editoral Board lauded UCSC's first online course on the Coursera platform, a 10-week literature and history class on the Holocaust, which drew "an eye-opening 18,342 enrollees from at least 58 countries.