Media Coverage

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about the start of construction for the new Coastal Biology building.

Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was quoted in a story from the Washington Post and Bloomberg News about efforts to develop tests for rapid identification of Ebola virus.

History professor Dana Frank was quoted in Australia's ABC News for a story about the roots of the Central American child immigration crisis at the U.S. border. Frank was also quoted in the Christian Science Monitor in a story titled "Why Child Migrants Head to the U.S."

The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled alumnus Andrew Ward, who graduated in 1993 with a BA in art, spotlighting his detailed fish sculptures created out of wood or clay, ranging from salmon to humphead wrasse.

Math lecturer Nandini Bhattacharya was quoted in a story about the Algebra Academy for eighth-graders in the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Grain growing at the UC Santa Cruz Farm was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel food article that included comments from Christof Bernau and Darryl Wong of the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and from graduates of the farming apprenticeship.

The Atlantic magazine spotlighted Emeritus Professor of Music David Cope in a story about work on new algorithms that can produce original compositions in the style of great composers, noting that he designed EMMY, an emulator named for the acronym of his “Experiments in Musical Intelligence” project at UC Santa Cruz.

An article in Reader's Digest recommending 23 compelling writers featured Literature Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, noting that "in a fair world, these critically acclaimed authors would be rocking the bestseller list."