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Robotic Surgery Opens Up
Medical robotics expert Jacob Rosen is featured in a Scientific American article about his group's open-source Raven II robotic surgery system.
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Lessons from a Global Garden: Growing More Food with Less
Quest, a science collaboration of six public broadcasters around the country including KQED, produced a report on biointensive farming and its promise for community gardens in underdeveloped nations that featured the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and apprenticeship instructor Christof Bernau.
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Forging a new path
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured an article about RAICES Indigenas de Mexico, a club at Watsonville High School for students of indigenes Mexican descent. UCSC sophomore Rocelia Cruz was a founding club member and UCSC doctoral student Elizabeth Gonzalez is a co-advisor.
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UCSC professor testifies at hearing on perils of solitary confinement
The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a report about professor Craig Haney's testimony at a Sacramento legislative hearing on solitary confinement.
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Dancing Animals Help Tell Us Why Music Evolved
Long Marine Lab's beat-keeping sea lion Ronan is back in the news, with stories about animal rhythmic abilities in national and international media, including Slate, National Geographic, Huffington Post, Discovery News, Chicago Tribune, Japan Times, Maclean's (Canada), Yahoo News, Reuters, AFP, EarthSky, Global Post, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Daily Telegraph (Australia), Daily Mail (UK), Zee…
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UCSC students design video game aimed at making astrophysics fun
Computer science graduate students Kate Compton and April Grow, and astrophysicist Stan Woosley, were featured in a San Jose Mercury News story about a game called Stellar based on the astrophysics of stars. The story also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, and other newspapers throughout the state.
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California solitary confinement changes questioned at hearing
The Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, and Merced Sun-Star quoted professor Craig Haney's testimony at a legislative hearing on solitary confinement.
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'Crowdsourcing' with a swipe of your finger
A story about a crowdsourcing app developed by a team of UCSC and Stanford students ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and other media.
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UCSC student plans return to East San Jose with Teach for America
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and Mercury News featured a senior who plans to return to his neighborhood to teach after graduation through the Teach for America program.
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Civil Rights leader tells youth to focus on education
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. convocation and the keynote address by Freeman A. Hrabowski, III