Media Coverage
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Cinema School Stars
UC Santa Cruz dean of the arts Susan Solt was named a top tier educator in Variety's entertainment education issue.
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Record number of killer whales sighted on Monterey Bay
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about killer whale attacks on migrating gray whales in Monterey Bay.
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Trump Administration wants to send 57,000 Hondurans to one of the world’s most dangerous places
History professor Dana Frank was quoted in Mother Jones magazine for a story about how nearly 57,000 Hondurans who have lived in the United States since at least 1998 will lose their temporary legal residency in January of 2020.
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A new venue for video games: K-12 classrooms
Michael John, program director for Games & Playable Media, was quoted in a story from EdSource about how teachers are using games in the classroom.
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3 falcon chicks at San Jose City Hall to be tracked, studied
Biologist Glenn Stewart was quoted in news coverage of his work with peregrine falcons nesting on San Jose City Hall, including stories from NBC Bay Area, CBS San Francisco, SF Gate, and Bay City News.
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Local kelp forests are giving way to barrens of sea urchins. Divers want to fight back.
Marine ecologist Mark Carr was quoted in a Monterey County Weekly article about declining kelp forests in the Monterey Bay.
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Humpback whale baby boom near Antarctica
Biologist Ari Friedlaender was quoted in a New York Times story about his research on humpback whales in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.
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Tick and mosquito infections spreading rapidly, C.D.C. finds
Disease ecologist Marm Kilpatrick was quoted in stories in the New York Times, Wired and other media outlets about the spread of tick- and mosquito-borne diseases.
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Is it anti-Semitic for President Trump to call Chuck Todd ‘sleepy eyes’?
The Washinton Post quoted emeritus history professor Peter Kenez in a story about whether President Trump's new nickname for Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s Meet the Press, is anti-Semitic. The story also ran in The Jewish Daily Forward.
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The true story of Mary Porter Sesnon and Pino Alto
The Good Times of Santa Cruz featured a cover story about the history of the Mary Porter Sesnon family and a new exhibition at UC Santa Cruz's Sesnon Gallery titled "Mary Porter Sesnon and Pino Alto."
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Hot Docs 2018 Women Directors: Meet Irene Lusztig—'Yours in Sisterhood'
Medium’s Women in Hollywood blog featured an interview with film and digital media professor Irene Lusztig about Yours in Sisterhood, her new film based on thousands of letters that were sent to the editor of Ms. Magazine.