Media Coverage
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Crumb stars suggest Milky Way was cannibalistic
Astronomer Alis Deason was quoted in a CNN story about her research on halo stars in the Milky Way.
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Si no regresa lo que se llevó, detención en vano
El Economista, in Mexico City, quoted Jonathan Fox, chair of the Latin American and Latino Studies Department, in an article on the significance of the arrest of Elba Esther Gordillo, president of Mexico's influential national teachers' union.
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Visitors flock to UCSC to view beloved hummingbirds
Hummingbird Day at the Arboretum was the subject of a feature story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, with quotes from Arboretum director Brett Hall, and was also covered by SF Gate and the Salinas Californian.
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Should patients understand that they are research subjects?
Sociology professor Jenny Reardon's commentary on the ethics of medical research and ownership of biological data was the lead piece in the San Francisco Chronicle's Sunday Insight section.
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California's new no-fishing zones appear to be working, scientists say
Marine biologist Mark Carr was quoted in coverage of a study showing that California's marine protected areas have been successful in allowing fish populations to recover, including stories from the Associated Press, San Jose Mercury News, KQED News online, Orange County Register, Eureka Times-Standard, and other newspapers throughout the state.
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The 7th Avenue Project
Theater Arts professor Kimberly Jannarone was interviewed along with actress Nancy Carlin on the “7th Avenue Project”—a weekly radio program by producer Robert Pollie on the Monterey Bay's NPR affiliate KUSP—about a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt that she is directing at UCSC.
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UC Santa Cruz graduate Rick Carter wins second Oscar
The Monterey Herald, San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about arts alumnus Rick Carter, who just received the second Academy Award of his career for production design on Steven Spielberg's acclaimed film "Lincoln."
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Oscars stage manager braces for his final cues to the stars
The Los Angeles Times featured a story about Theater Arts alum Dency Nelson, who has worked as a stage manager for 25 years and helped guide jittery stars at the Oscars and numerous other awards shows. Portland's KRCW-TV picked up the story.
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UCSC professors receive grant to study language comprehension
The San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune, Santa Cruz Sentinel and Long Beach Press-Telegram ran a story about a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation awarded to Humanities professors Sandra Chung and Matthew Wagers to investigate language comprehension in the Mariana Islands.
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Culture–New Again: Maya Rudolph
An interview with UCSC alumna Maya Rudolph by DONATELLA VERSACE and INGRID SISCHY for Interview Magazine noted that Rudolph majored in photography at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Eddie Fung of Santa Cruz survived horrors of POW camp
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a front page story about former WWII POW Eddie Fung, who now lives at UCSC with his wife– American Studies emeritus professor Judy Yung–who was interviewed and is editor of the book, "The Adventures of Eddie Fung." The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News.
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'Changing the way we eat' needs more profit In the pot
A writer for Forbes.com noted the work of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems in an article about changing the way we eat.