Media Coverage

Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a Bay Nature article about the origins of sea foam on the beach.

Astronomer Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a Sky & Telescope article about the ice giant planets Neptune and Uranus.

Astronomer Wren Suess was quoted in an Atlantic article about the new view of early galaxies revealed by the Webb Telescope.

Physicist Zack Schlesinger was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about the geometric shape of a baseball diamond, which is changing slightly with the new larger bases.

Daniel Hirsch, retired director of Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz, discusses the long term impacts of nuclear power.

With UC Santa Cruz’s launch of a mobile crisis response team this fall, the school became the first campus in the University of California system to establish an alternative to having police officers respond to mental health crisis calls.

Biologists Kristy Kroeker and Lauren Bell were featured in a BBC News story about the impact of sea otters on coastal ecosystems in Alaska.

Earth scientist Tamara Pico was featured in an Eos article about her research on the Bering Land Bridge.

Universities that have introduced Mental Health First Aid among their campus communities and have seen a positive trickle-down effect from the program. For example, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have seen demand for more training increase significantly.

Five decades after its inception, Leviathan's journey has taken it from a grassroots, unrefined medium of free expression, to a standardized newspaper, to a literary zine, and now a reason to celebrate in honor of the journal’s 50-year anniversary at UC Santa Cruz. 

Astronomer Katherine Suess was interviewed on CBC Radio and quoted in the Atlantic in coverage of her research on early galaxies observed with the Webb telescope.

Astronomer Natalie Batalha and her daughter Natasha Batalha, also an astronomer, were featured in a Nature article about their research using the Webb telescope to study exoplanets.