Media Coverage
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Poet Adrienne Rich balanced world-wide fame with a regular Santa Cruz life
Feminist Studies professor Bettina Aptheker was quoted extensively in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about a memorial for acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich.
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San Jose Mercury News
UCSC film alumna wins HBO filmmaker award
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about UCSC alumna Kimberly Bautista, a 2009 graduate of the Social Documentation Program who was named the winner of the 2012 HBO and National Association of Latino Independent Producers Documentary Film Award. The story also appeared on a variety of websites, including Bay…
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San Francisco Chronicle
Sandra Faber wins National Medal of Science
President Obama's selection of UCSC astronomer Sandra Faber to receive the National Medal of Science (see press release) was the subject of an article in the San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate. The honor was also covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, and Silicon Valley Business Journal.
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Science Friday
Could life exist on newfound alien planet?
Steve Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, was interviewed on the NPR program Science Friday about the discovery of five possible planets orbiting around Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most Sun-like stars, about 12 light years from Earth. One of the planets lies within Tau Ceti's habitable zone.
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ABC News
Astronomers discover habitable planet around nearby star
News that professor Steve Vogt and an international team of scientists have discovered at least one new habitable planet relatively nearby attracted widespread media attention internationally. Stories were filed by ABC News, NBC, CBS, Scientific American, Freakonomics.com, ScienceNow, Huffington Post, Mashable, Gizmodo, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Contra Costa Times, among others, and Vogt was interviewed…
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Live Science
Is It OK for the girl to propose? No way, study suggests
An article in the Journal of Adolescent Research by psychology doctoral candidate Rachael Robnett attracted Internet attention after Live Science, posted a story. Separate articles appeared on the Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan.com, andthe blog jezebel, that contributed its own snarky take. Men's Health weighed in as did a columnist for the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
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Associated Press
Conservationists team up with ranchers, loggers
An Associated Press article on conservation easements included quotes from environmental studies professor Daniel Press and Peter Stein, a UCSC alumnus, who is managing director of Lyme Timber Co. an investment company involved in negotiating easements. The article was published widely across the nation in dozens of newspapers and on websites, including U.S. News and…
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Science Blog
Which bat's the better pollinator?
Research by biologists Winifred Frick and Kathleen Kay on the bat pollinators of cardon cactus in Baja California was covered by Science Blog, Science Daily, BrightSurf, Science Newsline, and Science Codex.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
Hundreds of Humboldt squid wash up on Aptos area beaches
Biologist Baldo Marinovic commented on the Humboldt squid that washed up on Central Coast beaches in stories on KSBW TV and in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Huffington Post, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald, Contra Costa Times, and Inside Bay Area.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UC Santa Cruz team harnessing sunlight
Research on an innovative "sun to fiber" optical device led by electrical engineer Nobby Kobayashi was covered by Laser Focus World, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and Aptos Times.
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San Jose Mercury News
Biggest tides of the year set to hit California
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a widely published San Jose Mercury News article about this month's "king tides." The story ran in the Sacramento Bee, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Miami Herald, Inside Bay Area, and other media.
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Ars Technica
Portal's physics engine rebuilt…on a graphing calculator
The Ars Technica "gadgets" blog marveled at the achievement of computer game design major Alex Marcolina, who rebuilt the popular game Portal to work on a graphing calculator, and Venture Beat ran an interview with Marcolina.