Media Coverage
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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: Lawrence Weschler on ‘The Uncanny Valley’
Two Banana Slugs discuss their time at UC Santa Cruz when Lawrence Weschler appears on Jesse Thorn’s public radio program Bullseye to promote his new book “The Uncanny Valley.”
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The cul-de-sac is dying
Philadelphia Magazine wrote about environmental studies professor Adam Millard-Ball’s study on the rise and fall of urban sprawl.
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A sleep researche'rs attempt to build a bank of dreams
Research professor Bill Domoff’s DreamBank is featured in an article on Atlas Obscura, a digital media venture devoted to “discovering and sharing the world’s most remarkable places.” The article attracted the attention of the Daily Mail in the UK, which did its own version.
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Bacteria may help bats to fight deadly fungus
Biologists Marm Kilpatrick, Winifred Frick, and Kate Langwig were featured in a Nature news story about efforts to combat white-nose syndrome, which is wiping out bat populations in North America.
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Baby starfish vulnerable to wasting disease, UCSC researchers say
Biologist Monica Moritsch was featured in a KION TV news story about sea star wasting disease.
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Toxic algae bloom shuts down West Coast fisheries
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela continues to be featured in ongoing coverage of the toxic algae bloom on the West Coast, including a Los Angeles Times story that ran in numerous other media outlets, as well as stories from Yahoo News, KCBS Radio, Vancouver Sun, Daily Mail, and others.
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Valley of the Dead, Santa Cruz: How to connect to the history of the Grateful Dead
McHenry Library's Grateful Dead Archive was featured in a Metro Silicon Valley story on where to learn about the band's place in history, which noted that "the University of California Santa Cruz has been entrusted with the massive task of presiding over the official Grateful Dead archive."
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Real-time campus shuttle tracker is up and running
Santa Cruz Tech Beat ran a Q&A with the team that created the new Bus Tracking System (BTS) for campus shuttle buses, including computer engineering prof. Katia Obraczka, graduate student Kerry Veenstra, and undergrads Wade “Simba” Khadder and Kevin Abas.
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Documentary ‘Sand Wars’ highlights local, global sand crises
Geologist Gary Griggs is featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the documentary 'Sand Wars.'
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Traces of earliest stars that enriched cosmos are spied
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in a New York Times story about the discovery of a distant galaxy whose stars are made of only hydrogen and helium. The story also ran in the San Francisco Chronicle and other outlets.
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On Hawaii, a big telescope stirs conflict
Astronomer Michael Bolte was quoted in a Marketplace radio story about conflicts over the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii.
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Toxic algae bloom might be largest ever
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela was quoted in ongoing coverage of a large bloom of toxic algae along the west coast, including stories from the Seattle Times, KCET Los Angeles, Yahoo News, Reuters, Globe and Mail, Guardian, SF Gate, Tech Times, Nature World News, Juneau Empire, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and other media outlets.