Media Coverage
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Robot telescope at Lick Observatory finds distant planets
Astronomers Steve Vogt, Brad Holden, and Sandra Faber were quoted in coverage of new planet discoveries from the Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory, including stories from the San Francisco Chronicle, Astronomy, NPR Blogs, AP, and other media outlets.
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Feds Gone Wild: Why Federal Agents Act Badly
Sociology and legal studies professor Craig Reinarman was quoted by Foreign Policy in an article on scandals involving DEA and Secret Service agents.
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UCSC replacing hundreds of water meters across campus
KION reported on the effort to replace all water meters on campus with meters that report usage in real time.
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The fight to build Earth's most powerful optical telescope
Astronomer Mike Bolte was quoted in a Wired news story about the controversy over plans to build the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii.
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Antarctica's mysterious 'Blood Falls' explained in new study
Glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk was quoted in coverage of his team's research on groundwater and microbial ecosystems in Antarctica, including stories in Huffington Post, Nature, Yahoo News, PhysOrg, and other media outlets.
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We're a long way from earthquake predictions
Seismologist Emily Brodsky was quoted in a Vice News story about the earthquake in Nepal and the prospects for earthquake prediction.
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A History of Her Stories
A story in the 40th anniversary issue of Good Times Weekly spotlighted feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker, plus former director of the UCSC Women's Center, Roberta Valdez, noting their major impact on the feminist movement in Santa Cruz and describing the birth of Women's Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
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Yerxa's Travels: Hollywood producer and UCSC alum to speak on what makes comedy powerful and relevant
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a cover story in its Arts & Entertainment section about independent film producer and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Ron Yerxa, whose presentation, 50 Years of American Film Comedies, is a featured event at the 50th Anniversary Alumni Weekend.
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NPR’s Jesse Thorn returns to his roots in Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran an article about National Public Radio host Jesse Thorn, a humanities alumnus who is taping a live podcast from Kuumbwa Jazz Center during the 50th Anniversary Alumni Weekend to benefit the campus radio station, KZSC.
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Writing Home: Looking back at Santa Cruz’s incredible literary tradition
Santa Cruz's Good Times featured a story about the rich history of talented writers in the area, including a number of UC Santa Cruz faculty and alumni, noting that many of them will give public presentations during the campus's 50th Anniversary Alumni Weekend.
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To predict disease researchers ask if plant neighbors are relatives
Biologist Ingrid Parker and ecologist Greg Gilbert were quoted in coverage of their research on the dynamics of plant diseases in Science Daily, Terra Daily, Science Newsline, Smithsonian, Science 2.0, and other media outlets.
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Creating a genomic zoo
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler and biologist Beth Shapiro are featured in an Inside Science TV story about the Genome 10K project to sequence the genomes of 10,000 vertebrate species.