Media Coverage

Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo is featured in a Smithsonian article about his analysis of data from the New Horizons mission indicating that Pluto may have a subsurface ocean.

The New Indian Express ran an article about Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, the first female Tibetan poet writing in English, who is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Santa Cruz, focusing on Tibetan nationalism and identity.

Diablo Magazine featured an extensive profile of acclaimed filmmaker and UC Santa Cruz history alumnus Cary Fukunaga.

Indiewire ran an article about Last Day of Freedom, a film by associate professor of film and digital media Dee Hibbert-Jones that is shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject.

Film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich was quoted in Variety for an article about the lack of women in the field of film criticism.

Anthropology professor Mayanthi Fernando was interviewed by the Cambridge Times, an Ontario, Canada newspaper in a report about Muslims in France and Canada.

A Los Angeles Times columnist quoted lecturer Daniel Hirsch in a piece about PG&E and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.

Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo was quoted in a New Yorker story about findings from the New Horizons mission to Pluto.

Environmental toxicology Peter Weiss-Penzias was quoted in news coverage of his research on mercury in fog, including stories in the San Francisco Chronicle, Marin Independent Journal, KRON TV, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, SF Weekly, and other media outlets.

Ocean scientist Brandon Southall was quoted in a KQED story about ocean noise pollution.

Research on Jupiter's atmosphere by planetary scientist Xi Zhang was featured in an article in the Daily Mail (U.K.).