Media Coverage

Amy Everitt (Stevenson, '92), state director of NARAL Pro-Choice California, was interviewed on KQED radio's Forum program. Everitt is a past president of the UCSC Alumni Association.

KQED radio's Forum program featured UCSC Foundation trustee Ken Doctor discussing the sale of the Washington Post. Doctor (Merrill, '71) is a media analyst and past president of both the UCSC Foundation and UCSC Alumni Association.

The cover story in the Santa Cruz Weekly features several UCSC researchers–physicists Sue Carter and Glen Alers and plant scientist Micheal Loik–who developed and are now testing solar panels that let enough light through for plants to grow, so they can be used in greenhouses and above crops.

A story in the Huffington Post noted that "the Grateful Dead Archive Online at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ensures that generations to come will experience the Grateful Dead through the interdisciplinary lens of research scholarship."

Reviews of Shakespeare Santa Cruz's production of The Taming of the Shrew appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Santa Cruz Weekly, and Good Times.

Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher was quoted in an Oregon Herald story about a research expedition to the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about Science Communication Program director Rob Irion and his cover story in National Geographic magazine.

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.

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…

Coverage of UCSC's new Hyades supercomputer included stories in Red Orbit, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Thunder Feeds, and eScience News.

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.