Media Coverage

Biologist Marm Kilpatrick's findings on the emergence of vector-borne diseases around the world were covered by R&D magazine, Infection Control Today, Medical Express, HealthCanal, RedOrbit, Science Codex, and OnMedica.

Research by environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias on mercury in coastal fog was covered by National Geographic, Scientific American, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Monterey County Herald Pasadena Star-News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Environmental Protection, RedOrbit, PhysOrg, and Science Codex.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an interview with art professor Lewis Watts about his research, photographs of New Orleans and Cuba, and upcoming exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery. 

The San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories about alumna Reyna Grande and her new memoir of immigration, including quotes from Grande’s former teacher, literature professor Micah Perks, who is co-director of the UCSC Creative Writing Program.

Sweden's weekly newspaper Friatidnengen, based in Stockholm, published comments from history professor Dana Frank about the political situation in Honduras three years after the coup. Frank was also interviewed by Al Jazeera.

The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories on a state regional Ethics Bowl tournament, hosted for the very first time on the UC Santa Cruz campus by the Humanities Division's Philosophy Department.

A story about the Grateful Dead in the New Yorker magazine noted that Nicholas Meriwether is the curator of the Grateful Dead Archive which the band had donated to UC Santa Cruz. An article about the Grateful Dead Archive and Meriwether also appeared in the journal, American Scholar.

The Los Angeles Times published a feature story on the new Sikh and Punjabi Studies program in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The article was also picked up by the Sacramento Bee.

Stories about UCSC's new Ph.D. program in Feminist Studies were featured in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel

Research on proton radiography led by physicists Robert Johnson and Hartmut Sadrozinsky was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and MedGadget.

Hydrologist Andy Fisher was featured in a Wired news story about his research on water flow and microbial life beneath the seafloor.

Biologist Daniel Costa's research on the migrations of top predators in the Pacific Ocean was featured in an article in Natural History magazine.