Media Coverage

The Santa Cruz Sentinel attended and wrote about the Social Sciences Research Frontiers Day.

UC Santa Cruz was one of the focuses in an article on California's drought published in the U.S. edition of the UK publication Guardian.

A columnist for examiner.com wrote about the organic food industry by focusing on social sciences professor Julie Guthman's book, Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California.  

The Seattle Times featured a story about history professor Dana Frank and her research on Honduras, noting that things have gotten even worse since Frank had an opinion piece published in the New York Times two years ago with the headline warning: “In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U.S.”

Biologist Terrie Williams is among the scientists quoted in a Live Science article refuting Senator Tom Coburn's criticisms of NSF funding for basic scientific research.

Seismologist Thorne Lay was featured in a NBC News story on great earthquakes and the risk of a major quake on the Cascadia fault in the Pacific Northwest.

Theater Arts professor Kathy Foley was featured in The Washington Post and Jakarta Press about a performance and conference at the Smithsonian on theater that is traditional to the Sundanese culture of West Java, Indonesia. Foley was also interviewed by Voice of America radio about contemporary Indonesian performance.   

Seismologist Thorne Lay was featured in coverage of his analysis of recent great earthquakes and their implications for earthquake risk in the Pacific Northwest, including stories in Nature, Science Daily, Science Newsline, and other media outlets.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a page one feature on a legal clinic for students on campus under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.