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Theater: Bay Area theater finally has its own awards
The San Francisco Chronicle published a story about the inaugural Theatre Bay Area awards celebration, noting that the "redoubtable" professor of theater arts Danny Scheie won for outstanding performance by a male actor for The Comedy of Errors at California Shakespeare Theater.
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Molecular Biologist Sofie Salama: The Story of Jumping Genes
Molecular biologist Sofie Salama was interviewed on KUSP's "7th Avenue Project" about her research on jumping genes.
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Can Cirque du Soleil top itself with 'Kurios'?
The San Jose Mercury News quoted theater arts professor Patty Gallagher in a story about Cirque du Soleil.
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Seymour Center a window into world of ocean research
The Seymour Marine Discovery Center was featured in a cover story for a special section on Santa Cruz in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, with quotes from director Julie Barrett Heffington and aquarium curator Peter Macht.
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Massive starfish die-off in Pacific Ocean linked to mystery virus
Biologist Pete Raimondi was quoted in widespread media coverage of the discovery of a virus linked to sea star wasting disease, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Verge, LiveScience, Seattle Times, National Geographic News, Nature, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Los Angeles Daily…
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Evolutionary constraints revealed in diversity of fish skulls
Biologist Rita Mehta was quoted in stories about her research on the evolutionary diversity of fish in Science Daily, Science Newsline, PhysOrg, Science 2.0, and other media sources.
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Food and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Anthropology professor Melissa Caldwell was interviewed at length for the Food Chain programme on BBC World about food in former communist countries after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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UCSC welcomes first-generation college students
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a luncheon honoring two dozen UC Santa Cruz students who are the first in the families to attend a four-year university and also three non-profit oraganizations that help them succeed in college.
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Fukushima radiation nears California coast, judged harmless
Dan Hirsch, a lecturer in nuclear policy, was quoted in a Science article about radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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10 big data projects that could help save the planet
The UC Santa Cruz Puma Project was one of 10 big data projects highlighted in a Tech Republic article published by Yahoo Finance.