Media Coverage
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Astronomers find hundreds of baby galaxy clusters
Astronomer David Koo was quoted in a Wired News story about baby galaxy clusters.
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More Real Than Reality TV: How Albert Maysles Taught America to Feel
Newsweek magazine interviewed film and digital media professor B. Ruby Rich for a story about the recent death of Albert Maysles, the "Dean of Documentary," whose best known films with his brother David include Gimme Shelter (1970), Salesman (1968), and Grey Gardens (1975). "They were empathy machines—they taught America how to feel,” Rich noted.
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As Sea Stars Die, New Worries About Urchins
Biologists Pete Raimondi, Mark Carr, and Jim Estes were quoted in a National Geographic article about the response of sea urchins to the die-off of sea stars along the California coast, and evidence of a sea urchin disease in southern California. The story was also covered by Smithsonian, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News,…
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From bad to worse: California has seen droughts before, but this one just isn’t letting up
The Toronto Globe and Mail talked with Ruth Langridge, a lecturer and researcher in legal studies, about threats to groundwater supplies for an article on Gov. Brown’s executive order mandating water use restrictions.
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Carolyn ‘Cat’ Klein Lagattuta: Finding (and projecting) happiness through reinventing stock photography
Awesome shutterbug Carolyn “Cat” Klein Lagattuta was featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel profile.
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George Blumenthal: Public higher education can again transform California
In an op-ed published in the San Francisco Chronicle Chancellor Blumenthal asked: Are we content to offer today’s students, who are more racially and socioeconomically diverse than ever, less than their predecessors received?
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UC Santa Cruz sets record for longest granola bar
The Santa Cruz Sentinel was was on top of the baking beat as it covered the record-beating granola bar created at UCSC’s College 9/10 dining hall during the Pacific Regional Conference of the National Association of College and University Food Services. The trade journal Food Management also reported on the 420-foot feat.
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UCSC plans to build recycling yard to solve compost problem
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a plan to create a new recycling yard on campus including a composting facility.
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Earth's most powerful physics machine gets back in action
Physicist Howard Haber is quoted in a Wired news story about the restart of the Large Hadron Collider.
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Once-wild Jupiter may explain our unusual solar system
Astronomer Greg Laughlin was featured in widespread coverage of his research on the formation of our solar system, including stories from the San Jose Mercury News, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Herald, Contra Costa Times, Daily Mail, Australian, Science News, Discovery News, Space.com, New Scientist, Mashable, Huffington Post, Salon, Scientific American, Yahoo News, CNN.com, Forbes, Astronomy…
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SFMOMA project explores games as art
Robin Hunicke, associate professor of game design in the Art Department, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about PlaySFMOMA, a program that recognizes games as an expressive medium and aims to link the museum to the local design community.
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Andrew Jarecki's 'The Jinx' marks documentaries' big shift in real time
The Los Angeles Times quoted associate professor of film and digital media Jonathan Kahana, who talked about the historical significance of the film "The Thin Blue Line" in a story about the changes that have taken place over the years in true-crime documentary films.