Media Coverage

Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in a Science News article about his team's report that they had found evidence of microbial life in water samples retrieved from Subglacial Lake Whillans in Antarctica.

A Santa Cruz Sentinel story about astronomer Sandra Faber receiving the National Medal of Science at the White House also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey County Herald, and Inside Bay Area, and KSBW TV also covered the event.

Seismologist Thorne Lay's research on recent earthquakes and aftershocks in the Philippines was covered by Live Science and Our Amazing Planet.

The Salinas Californian covered the presentations of Chancellor George Blumenthal and undergraduate Juan Ledesma at the Salinas Rotary Club, where they discussed the partnership between UCSC and Hartnell College.

With astronomer Sandra Faber about to receive the National Medal of Science, KSBW's evening news program featured a story about the achievements and recognition of UCSC's astronomy program. The story included interviews with astronomers Greg Laughlin, Steve Vogt, and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz.

The Raven surgical robot developed by computer engineer Jacob Rosen is featured in a Fortune magazine article about robotic surgery.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Inside Bay Area, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Pasadena Star News, and Long Beach Press Telegram announced that UCSC will host the 3rd annual Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, plus the first California Regional High School Ethics Bowl Competition.

The Santa Cruz Good Times ran a story about the life of UCSC writing teacher Don Rothman, who will be honored and remembered in a January 26 memorial on campus.

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik ran an item on UCSC alumna, and and former SNL star Maya Rudolph, who will appear with her Prince cover band, "Princess," at the SF Sketchfest comedy festival, noting that Rudolph and her bandmate Gretchen Lieberum "met at UC Santa Cruz, where their funk band was Supersauce."

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about UCSC's Cowell Press, a program directed by humanities lecturer, poet, and master printer Gary Young that teaches the traditional arts of typography and printing.