Media Coverage
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Can corporate funding help connect students to data?
Computer scientist Lise Getoor was quoted in a story from eCampusNews about universities partnering with the private sector to fund research and expose students to real-world challenges.
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Emotion, manipulation and the future of game design
Game news site Polygon reviewed How Games Move Us, the new book by computational media professor Katherine Isbister.
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Pluto may have a wandering heart
Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a Smithsonian story about proposed explanations for unusual features on Pluto.
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Silicon Valley subcontracting makes income inequality worse, report finds
The Guardian’s (Great Britain) San Francisco technology reporter wrote about Chris Benner and Kyle Neering’s Everett Center’s study of low-wage subcontract workers in Silicon Valley.
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Universities must change the culture on sexual violence, UC Santa Cruz provost says
The Huffington Post published an article about Campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway’s statement calling for faculty to go beyond compliance regarding sexual harassment on campus. Galloway’s statement, distributed campus wide, was also published on Medium.
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UCSC emeritus professor Thomas Pettigrew honored for research on racism
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote a nice story about the work of emeritus professor Tom Pettigrew who has been named winner of the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, bestowed by American Sociological Association.
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What we know about the people who clean the floors in Silicon Valley
The Washington Post “Wonk Blog" wrote about a report by environmental studies professor Chris Benner, executive director of the Everett Program, about the ethnic disparity between high-tech workers in Silicon Valley and the contract workers who staff corporate campuses as janitors, landscapers, food service workers, and shuttle bus drivers.
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This mysterious ‘hot Jupiter’ is on a wild orbital ride
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was quoted in coverage of new research on a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet with an eccentric orbit, including stories in the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Tech Times, CNet, Space Daily, EarthSky, PhysOrg, SlashGear, and other media outlets.
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Drought: Aquifer woes here to stay
Hydrogeologist Andrew Fisher and his students were featured in a story about groundwater deficits and the drought that ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and other media outlets.
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For Latin American environmentalists, death is a constant companion
The Washington Post quoted history professor Dana Frank for a front-page story about the recent slaying of internationally known environmentalist Berta Cáceres Flores of Honduras.
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The long-term problem facing California beaches
Coastal geologist Gary Griggs was featured in a Capital Public Radio story about California's shrinking beaches.
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UCSC service learning spring break provides alternative
The Santa Cruz Sentinel, Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, and KION television carried stories about College Nine and Ten students performing service-learning projects in Watsonville for an alternative spring break.