Media Coverage
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Scientists dig deep in Tohoku fault to crack earthquake’s secrets
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.
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Building an Entrepreneurial Pipeline in Santa Cruz
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…
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UC Santa Cruz Acquires Powerful New Astrophysics Supercomputer System
Coverage of UCSC's new Hyades supercomputer included stories in Red Orbit, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Thunder Feeds, and eScience News.
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Doubts Surface About Antarctic Life
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.
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UCSC alumna's work with Syrian refugees featured on CBS News
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.
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Going through the motions improves dance performance
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.
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz presents a contrast with two productions
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.
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First hiker completes new 800-mile Oregon Desert Trail
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.
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Wolves help preserve berries for imperiled Yellowstone bears -study
Reuters quoted Chris Wilmers, associate professor of environmental studies, as an outside expert in an article on wolves in Yellowstone.
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Break ups are both harder and easier today
A columnist writing on divorce in Psychology Today quoted from psychology professor Steve Whittaker's study on breakups and Facebook.
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Immodest proposal
The New York Times Sunday Magazine referred to psychology grad student Rachael Robnett's study that found not one male or female surveyed preferred that a woman propose marriage to a man. The mention was in the "One-page Magazine" feature.
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Local lions
The California Academy of Sciences has produced and is showing a video on the mountain lion research associate professor of environmental studies Chris Wilmers is conducting. Santa Cruz Style magazine also published an article on Wilmers and his work with pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains.