Media Coverage
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Minimum wage coalition forms in Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a coalition forming to raise the minimum wage that was announced at the Working for Dignity event organized by the UCSC Center for Labor Studies and sociology professor Steve McKay.
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Surfin’ Staches brings wackiness to Cowell Beach to raise funds for mens health research
Cancer genomics expert Josh Stuart was quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the "Surfin' Staches" fundraiser for prostate cancer research organized by the Genomics Institute.
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Algae doom
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a Good Times Weekly article about the toxic algae bloom that has closed the Dungeness crab season.
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Genetics: Big hopes for big data
Biomolecular engineer Josh Stuart was quoted in a Nature article about advances in cancer genomics.
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Interview with Melissa Caldwell
En Route, the in-flight magazine of Air Canada, published a profile and interview with anthropology professor Melissa Caldwell.
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UCSC takes proactive approach to protecting students abroad
KION reported on UC Santa Cruz students who are studying in Paris.
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Movie filmed on Central Coast nearly 100 years ago
KSBW-TV featured a story about a project by UC Santa Cruz alumnus James Mockoski to restore the silent suffrage film, Mothers of Men, filmed in Santa Cruz nearly 100 years ago, including an interview with film and digital media professor Shelley Stamp. The Santa Cruz Sentinel also featured a front page story on the project.
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Visiting Day: The Unrelenting Stress of Family Prison Visits
The Atlantic featured Visiting Day, a new short by film and digital media assistant professor Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, about the personal and financial toll that incarceration takes on prisoners’ loved ones, in its "Editors Picks," a curated showcase of short films selected by the magazine.
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Bay Area Dungeness crab fishermen stoic despite financial hardship
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in a story about the delay of the Dungeness crab season that ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Mateo County Times, Tri-Valley Herald, Alameda Times-Star, and other Bay Area newspapers.
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Optofluidic systems detect Ebola, flu viruses
Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was quoted in an article in Photonics Media about his research on optofluidic technology for virus detection.
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Santa Cruz students track working poor with ‘Census of the Invisible’
KQED News printed a version of a California Health Report on the “Working for Dignity” project by sociology professor Steve McKay’s class.
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Brutes of Labor
Good Times Weekly covered the “Working for Dignity” event in Watsonville on wage theft and the issue of low-wage work in Santa Cruz County.