Media Coverage
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Rare Albino Redwoods May Hold Clues to Ecosystem Health
Botanist Jarmila Pitterman was quoted in an article about albino redwoods in Atlas Obscura.
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Predicting When the Next Bluff Will Fall
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in a Hakai magazine story, also published in the Atlantic, about efforts to predict when coastal bluffs will collapse.
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Sea otters stay warm thanks to leaky mitochondria in their muscles
Biologist Terrie Williams was quoted in Science News and Smithsonian articles about how the metabolism of sea otters helps them stay warm in cold ocean waters.
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MAH to debut new downtown arts festival in September
Lookout Santa Cruz ran a story about a new Santa Cruz arts festival in September that will include UCSC alumni and faculty artists as participants.
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A Daughter of the Samurai: On the Strength, Tradition, and Rebellion of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Literary Hub published the insightful introduction from the re-release of Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto's 1925 memoir, A Daughter of the Samurai, written by emerita literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita and literature Ph.D. candidate Yuki Obayashi.
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With new release, Keshav Batish builds on famous father’s legacy
The San Jose Mercury News featured a story about musician Keshav Batish, a recent graduate of UCSC with both a B.A. in music and a Master’s degree in music composition.
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Michael Caspe and Nathaniel Deutsch: A fortress in Brooklyn
History professor Nathaniel Deutsch was featured in a Jewish Journal podcast about a new book he co-authored, “A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg.”
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Art installations to decorate Downtown Santa Cruz
A KION-TV news story about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History described how interactive art installations by UCSC Digital Art and New Media students will be featured in a new biennial festival of lights.
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Souped-up supernovas may produce much of the universe’s heavy elements
Astrophysicist Stan Woosley was quoted in a Science News story about production of heavy elements in supernovas.
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A shadowy birthplace may explain Jupiter’s strange chemistry
Planetary scientist Kazumasa Ohno was quoted in a Science News story about research on Jupiter's atmosphere.
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The Sound of One Walrus Clapping
Marine scientist Colleen Reichmuth was quoted in articles in the New York Times and Atlantic about her research on the sounds made by walruses.
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How the Delta variant took over
Genomic scientist Yatish Turakhia was quoted in a Wired article about how the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 became the dominant variant of the virus.