Media Coverage
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Kirby Scudder: Rediscovering San Francisco artist Charles Griffin Farr
Santa Cruz Sentinel columnist Kirby Scudder interviewed Sesnon Galley director Shelby Graham about a new exhibit at UCSC featuring works by the late San Francisco artist Charles Griffin Farr, who gifted his paintings and drawings to UCSC's Arts Division.
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Director of Carrillo documentary makes SC appearance
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about the screening of a short film about artist and longtime UCSC professor Eduardo Carrillo, who taught painting, drawing and other subjects for 25 years until his death in 1997, and was a founding member of Oakes College.
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Hacking as an art form at UCSC's DANM department
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about recent Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) graduate Laura Wright, who creates art in "hacked technologies" and is teaching a class this fall at UCSC for incoming DANM students calleld "Introduction to Electronics for Artmaking."
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Edison and contractor are blamed for flaws that shut down San Onofre
The Los Angeles Times quoted Daniel Hirsch, a lecturer in nuclear policy at Colleges Nine and 10, in an article about the shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear power plant.
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UCSC's welcome week kicks off with move-in days
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote a page one article about students moving into campus residence halls and the start of classes.
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State leaders briefed on toxic algae blooms in Pinto Lake
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela, an expert on harmful algal blooms, was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about toxic algae in Watsonville's Pinto Lake.
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Earth's biggest deep earthquake ever puzzles seismologists
Research on deep earthquakes led by seismologists Thorne Lay and Lingling Ye was covered by NBC News, Live Science, KQED, The Conversation, Ars Technica, Science Daily, Times of India, Economic Times, Asia Times Online, French Tribune, Nature World News, International Business Times, Science World Report, PhysOrg, Red Orbit, and other national and international outlets.
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Strawberry growers seek pesticide alternatives
The Associated Press talked to environmental studies professor Carol Shennan of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems for an article on alternatives to fumigants in strawberry fields. The article was published in several newspapers in the western U.S.
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Science on the SPOT: Chasing Pumas
A KQED science feature on the UC Santa Cruz Puma Project featured field biologist Paul Houghtaling on the hunt for pumas in the Santa Cruz mountains.
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Blue-footed booby makes unexpected stop in Monterey Bay
Biologist Bernie Tershy was quoted in articles in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News about unusual sightings by birders of blue-footed boobies on the central coast.
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UCSC hires Brenda and John Romero to run gaming program
The appointment of John and Brenda Romero to run the master's program in games and playable media was widely covered on games news sites and other media, including stories from Venture Beat, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Inside Bay Area, Gamasutra, GameSpot, Polygon, Game Politics, Develop, VG247, HardOCP, Gamers Global, Blue's News, Technology News, Atomix, Game Informer,…
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UCSC duo develops online homework grading tool
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Science Daily ran stories about the online crowdsourcing tool for grading homework developed by computer scientist Luca de Alfaro.