Media Coverage
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MacArthur Genius winner Viet Thanh Nguyen addresses UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story covering a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and new MacArthur "genius" grant winner, Viet Thanh Nguyen, who came to UC Santa Cruz as a guest of the campus's Fall 2017 Living Writers Series.
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UCSC spotlights Korean music in Pac Rim Fest
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about the Pacific Rim Music Festival, a cross-cultural musical collaboration with Korea. Music professor and festival director Hi Kyung Kim was also intereviewed on KQED, and San Francisco Classical Voice noted that Kim will host a public forum in Berkeley with the visiting Korean orchestra’s artistic director.
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Learning from the fight against lead
Ocean scientist Carl Lamborg was quoted in a Bloomberg article about contamination of the global environment with lead and mercury.
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Scientists detect gravitational waves from a new kind of nova, sparking a new era in astronomy
Astronomers Ryan Foley, Charles Kilpatrick, and David Coulter were featured in widespread news coverage of the discovery of a kilonova from the collision of two neutron stars, including stories in the Washington Post, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, Atlantic, CBS News, KQED News, CBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Science, Nature, Science News,…
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Did early Easter Islanders sail to South America before Europeans?
Anthropologist Lars Fehren-Schmitz received significant media coverage for his paleogenomic analysis of the remains of early inhabitants of Easter Island, including this write-up in Science magazine.
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Santa Cruz County survey finds 27 percent living three in a room
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is among the news outlets covering the "No Place Like Home" project led by Sociology faculty members Steve McKay and Miriam Greenberg; student researchers surveyed more than 1,700 renters in Santa Cruz County.
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With cancer, it's not necessarily where it starts but how it starts
Cancer genomics experts David Haussler and Josh Stuart were featured in a Los Angeles Times article about new ways of classifying cancers for targeted treatment.
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UC Santa Cruz farm students raise funds to regrow Puerto Rico’s devastated crops
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the story of four apprentices at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems who are crowdfunding their efforts to help Puerto Rico's agricultural sector recover from Hurricane Maria.
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The first casualty of North Korean nuclear tests? The country's environment
Seismologist Thorne Lay was quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about the effects on the environment of North Korea's nuclear tests. The story also ran in the San Diego Union-Tribune and other media outlets.
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Neanderthals weren't as incestuous as we thought, ancient DNA reveals
Genome biologist Richard Green was quoted in a story about Neanderthal genomes in Newsweek and Agence France Presse.
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It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature: 'Against the Anthropocene'
Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today, a new book by History of Art and Visual Culture professor T.J. Demos, was reviewed by Pop Matters, an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.
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'Letters to Memory' tells the story of author Karen Tei Yamashita's World War II internment
The Christian Science Monitor featured a review of literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita's new book, Letters to Memory, the followup to her 2010 National Book Award finalist, I Hotel.