Media Coverage

Tech Beat published a very well-written article on a team from UC Santa Cruz Information Technology Services winning a UC award for its fiber optic project. The Santa Cruz Sentinel devoted a Coastlines item to the news.

The Los Angeles Times published a story about two young women from South Los Angeles, the first students from the LA Unified School District to win a high school essay contest sponsored by the Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz, and their experience at the annual Dickens Universe conference on campus.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled UC Santa Cruz alumna Christina Wang (B.A. Art, 2007), "a multi-disciplinary artist who counts knife-making, illustration, photography, cooking, and building among her artistic accomplishments."

Chancellor Blumenthal got the byline on an op-ed that appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentinel calling for support of a state bond measure for school facilities.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published an article about UC Santa Cruz posting $50 million in pledges for fiscal year 2014.

Malika Bell, director of STEM diversity programs, and several undergraduates were quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about the Summer Research Symposium.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about the start of construction for the new Coastal Biology building.

Electrical engineer Holger Schmidt was quoted in a story from the Washington Post and Bloomberg News about efforts to develop tests for rapid identification of Ebola virus.

History professor Dana Frank was quoted in Australia's ABC News for a story about the roots of the Central American child immigration crisis at the U.S. border. Frank was also quoted in the Christian Science Monitor in a story titled "Why Child Migrants Head to the U.S."

The Santa Cruz Sentinel profiled alumnus Andrew Ward, who graduated in 1993 with a BA in art, spotlighting his detailed fish sculptures created out of wood or clay, ranging from salmon to humphead wrasse.