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Author returns to Santa Cruz with new memoir
The San Jose Mercury News, Monterey Herald, Contra Costa Times, Inside Bay Area, and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories about alumna Reyna Grande and her new memoir of immigration, including quotes from Grande’s former teacher, literature professor Micah Perks, who is co-director of the UCSC Creative Writing Program.
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Swedish weekly quotes Dana Frank on Honduras
Sweden's weekly newspaper Friatidnengen, based in Stockholm, published comments from history professor Dana Frank about the political situation in Honduras three years after the coup. Frank was also interviewed by Al Jazeera.
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Ethics Bowl comes to UC Santa Cruz
The San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel featured stories on a state regional Ethics Bowl tournament, hosted for the very first time on the UC Santa Cruz campus by the Humanities Division's Philosophy Department.
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Following the Grateful Dead over the decades
A story about the Grateful Dead in the New Yorker magazine noted that Nicholas Meriwether is the curator of the Grateful Dead Archive which the band had donated to UC Santa Cruz. An article about the Grateful Dead Archive and Meriwether also appeared in the journal, American Scholar.
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Sikh religion joining California universities' curriculum: UC Santa Cruz is the latest to offer a course.
The Los Angeles Times published a feature story on the new Sikh and Punjabi Studies program in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The article was also picked up by the Sacramento Bee.
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UC Santa Cruz launches doctorate program in feminist studies
Stories about UCSC's new Ph.D. program in Feminist Studies were featured in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel
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UCSC team helping doctors target cancer
Research on proton radiography led by physicists Robert Johnson and Hartmut Sadrozinsky was covered by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and MedGadget.
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Deep Sea Hydrology Bolsters Case for a Hidden Biosphere
Hydrologist Andy Fisher was featured in a Wired news story about his research on water flow and microbial life beneath the seafloor.
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Into the Blue Serengeti
Biologist Daniel Costa's research on the migrations of top predators in the Pacific Ocean was featured in an article in Natural History magazine.
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Why data is the key to better medicine–and maybe a cure for cancer
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in a GigaOm article about applications of "big data" in medicine. The Washington Post also ran the story.