Media Coverage
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UCSC professor Ryan Foley awarded Packard Fellowship
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about astronomer Ryan Foley, who has received a Packard Fellowship.
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Rare white hummingbird steals the spotlight at California garden
Biologist Todd Newberry is quoted in an Audubon article about the white hummingbird that has been seen in the UCSC Arboretum, as well as a San Francisco Chronicle story which also quotes Arboretum director Martin Quigley.
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Q&A: Rob Currie, Genomics Institute CTO, on “the global virtuous cycle of open data” (and more)
Santa Cruz Tech Beat published an interview with Rob Currie, the new CTO for the UCSC Genomics Institute.
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Elephant seal sets record by swimming farthest west
Biologist Patrick Robinson is quoted in an AP wire story about Phyllis the elephant seal's record-setting swim across the North Pacific, which was widely published in outlets ranging from the Daily Mail (U.K.) to San Francisco Chronicle.
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A recently restored silent-era melodrama shows Santa Cruz what it looked like 100 years ago
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a front page story about 'Mothers of Men,' a 1917 women’s suffrage film shot on location in Santa Cruz, that was found and restored by a graduate of UC Santa Cruz’s Film & Digital Media Department.
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Funomena’s Robin Hunicke Believes In Games With Intentional Play
VentureBeat featured an interview with Robin Hunicke, director of art and design in the Games and Playable Media program at UC Santa Cruz.
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Is 'Birth Of A Nation' Really Based On A True Story? How 1915 Film With Same Name Was KKK Propoganda
International Business Times interviewed B. Ruby Rich, professor of film & digital media and social documentation, for a story about the new film “Birth of a Nation" by Nate Parker, who took his film's name from D.W. Griffith's 1915 movie that was Ku Klux Klan propaganda.
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Video games where people matter? The strange future of emotional AI
Computational media professor Michael Mateas and graduate students Aaron Reed and James Ryan are featured in a Guardian article about the use of artifical intelligence to simulate emotional behavior in nonplayer characters in computer games.
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There’s magic in mess: why you should embrace a disorderly desk
Psychology professor Stephen Whittaker discusses “pilers and filers” in a Financial Times article that is taken from a new book on messiness and productivity.
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The mystery of the ‘ghost trees’ may be solved
Biologist Jarmila Pittermann was quoted in an article about albino redwood trees in the Washington Post, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Chronicle, and other media outlets.
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As DNA reveals its secrets, scientists are assembling a new picture of humanity
Genomics researcher Benedict Paten is featured in a story in Stat about efforts to build genome graphs for better understanding of the human genome.
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UCSC receives iconic photographic collection worth $32M
Stories about a major gift to the UC Santa Cruz Library's Special Collections of The Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch Collection, comprised of photographs documenting the people, landscape, and politics of California, were featured in The Monterey Herald, San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel (front page), KQED, Philanthropy News Digest, Central…