Media Coverage

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.