Media Coverage

Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in an article about "sneaker waves" that ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey County Herald, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Sacramento Bee, and other newspapers nationwide. Griggs was also interviewed live on KKSF radio news (San Francisco).

Physicist and cosmologist Anthony Aguirre was featured in a New York Times article about concepts of infinity.

IndieWire featured UCSC Film and Digital Media professor B. Ruby Rich discussing the new release "Cloud Atlas" with Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum.

The Sacramento Bee published a story about the UC Santa Cruz Grateful Dead Archive, featuring an interview with the Library’s Grateful Dead Archivist, Nicholas Meriwether.

The Sacramento News & Review interviewed Film and Digital Media assistant professor John Jota Leaños for a feature story about Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta, his bilingual multi-media opera.

History professor Dana Frank was interviewed in the indpendent online magazine, Warscapes, about the current situation in Honduras, which has remained volatile and extremely violent since the ouster of democratically elected president José Manuel Zelaya.

Feminist Studies professor Bettina Aptheker was quoted extensively in a Santa Cruz Sentinel article about a memorial for acclaimed poet Adrienne Rich.

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…

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.

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.

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…