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Kryder's law craps out: Race to uber-cheap storage is over
Research on trends in data storage by computer science graduate student Preeti Gupta was quoted in an article about the cost of data storage in The Register (U.K.).
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Sound of Silence
The Santa Cruz Good Times Weekly interviewed music professor Larry Polansky about Eye Music, a four-day UCSC festival performed in American Sign Language that he curated, featuring nationally renowned Deaf poets and performing artists.
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Grateful Dead: An early Silicon Valley startup
The San Jose Mercury News, siliconvalley.com, Bloomberg Businessweek, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about a conference to study the cultural and business legacy of the Grateful Dead, noting the event was the inspiration of Nicholas Meriwether, founding Grateful Dead archivist at UC Santa Cruz, and Michael Parrish, dean of the…
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Navy war games face suit over impact on whales, dolphins
Marine scientist Brandon Southall was quoted in a Washington Post article about the effects of naval exercises on marine mammals.
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Scientist hopes to unlock Ebola's secrets at outbreak's source
Bioinformatics expert Jim Kent was quoted in a Reuters article about research on the Ebola virus. The story ran in dozens of media outlets around the world, including Fox News, Yahoo News, and Daily Mail.
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'Birth of Stars' at UCSC Experimental Theater is a fusion of art and science
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Contra Costa Times ran a feature story about "Birth of Stars," an original new play co-produced by the Theater Arts Department and the Digital Arts and New Media program, and created by a research team of UCSC scholars, students, and artists–quoting Michael Chemers, professor of theater arts and director of…
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As species decline, so does research funding
Biologist Terrie Wiliams responded to Sen. Tom Coburn's misrepresentation of her research in an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. Her article was reprinted in several other newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.
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America's best colleges for a major in film
A story in USA Today reported that UC Santa Cruz was named one of the country’s best colleges for film majors, ranking #7 in a Top Ten list by College Factual.
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Fatter is better for marine mammals
Biologist Dan Costa was quoted in stories about his research on elephant seals in Science magazine, Nature World News, PhysOrg, Science Newsline, Science Daily, and Science World Report.
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UC backs off its threat to end funding to Lick Observatory
Astronomer Claire Max was quoted in stories about UC's revised policy regarding funding for Lick Observatory in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Nature, and KION TV.