Media Coverage
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Researchers track down name of mystery girl uncovered in SF a year ago
Biomolecular engineer Ed Green was quoted in stories from NBC Bay Area, CBS San Francisco, Los Angeles Times, and Santa Cruz Sentinel about how his DNA analysis helped identify a child whose coffin was unearthed in a San Francisco backyard.
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Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp: Verve Coffee in Tokyo, LifeAid on Inc 500
Engineers John Felts, Marco Rolandi, and Xiaolin Zhang were among the entrepreneurs featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about local start-up companies.
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Bald eagle chick hatches in Milpitas and the public goes nuts
Biologist Glenn Stewart was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle story about bald eagles nesting in Milpitas.
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This land is our land
Western Art and Architecture magazine featured associate professor of film and digital media John Jota Leaños in a story about an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum titled Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place, which includes his animation installation, "Destinies Manifest." Hyperallergic also reviewed Leaños's work in a story titled Reframing the American West Through…
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The future is in interactive storytelling
Computational media professors Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas published an article in the Conversation on the future of interactive storytelling.
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Chatbot challenges will make AIs discuss the latest news
Computer scientist Marilyn Walker was quoted in a New Scientist article about chatbots.
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What Will Future Historians Say About President Trump's First 100 Days? Here Are 11 Guesses
Associate professor of history Alice Yang was featured in a Time magazine story that asked a variety of experts to weigh in on a single question: "What will historians of the future say about President Trump's first 100 days?"
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Entertainment Education: Stellar Film Schools in 2017
UC Santa Cruz was included as a top film school in Variety's 2017 pick of "stellar academies in the U.S. and abroad."
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How and when did Saturn get those magnificent rings?
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo is featured in a Smithsonian magazine article about the rings of Saturn.
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Biologists are using robots and technology to battle alien plants and animals
Biologist Bernie Tershy is quoted in a widely published Associated Press article about new technologies for fighting invasive species, with the story appearing in Time and hundreds of other media outlets.
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Facebook decides fake news isn't crazy after all. It's now a real problem
Computer scientist Luca de Alfaro was quoted in a Register story about fake news.
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Scientists can now pull the DNA of ancient humans out of cave dirt
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in coverage of new techniques for studying the DNA of ancient humans and other animals, including stories in Atlantic, CNBC, and Science.