Media Coverage
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The Scientists are Amateurs, But Their Coastal Research Makes a Splash
Biologist John Pearse was featured in a Bay Nature story about a coastal monitoring program involving high school students.
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When Freedom Summer Landed in White America’s Living Rooms
History of Art and Visual Culture professor Martin Berger was quoted in a Herald de Paris story about the impact of images from the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The story also ran in Salon.
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James Shigeta 'Led The Way' For Asian-American Lovers On Screen
Professor of Film and Digital Media L.S. Kim was featured on NPR"s syndicated Weekend Edition program in a story about the passing of actor James Shigeta, who broke barriers in film as one of Hollywood's first Asian-American actors to play romantic lead characters.
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UCSC engineering lab awarded $2.28M grant
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about biomolecular engineer Mark Akeson's research group, which received a major grant for work on a nanopore device for DNA sequencing.
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Seabed samples cast doubt on earthquake risk for Pacific Northwest
Geologist Gary Griggs was quoted in news stories from Nature and other outlets about a study of earthquake risks in the Pacific Northwest.
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New exhibit at UC Santa Cruz traces the literary roots of the Grateful Dead
The San Jose Mercury News, Inside Bay Area, Contra Costa Times, Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, and KSBW-TV featured stories about a new exhibition on the literary history of the Grateful Dead at the Grateful Dead Archive in McHenry Library. The news also appeared on numerous web sites such as Reddit and Muck Rack.
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Gridlock over border crisis continues
Héctor Perla Jr., assistant professor of Latin American and Latino studies, appeared on the Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC to discuss the crisis over child immigrants from Central America.
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Dead anchovies inundate Santa Cruz harbor, leave foul smell
Ocean scientist Raphael Kudela and biologist Baldo Marinovic were quoted in news stories about the large numbers of anchovies in Monterey Bay and the die-off of anchovies in the Santa Cruz harbor, including stories in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Monterey Herald, Contra Costa Times, CBS San…
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The Moon Is (Slightly) Flat, Scientists Say
A study led by planetary scientist Ian Garrick-Bethell on the shape of the moon received widespread media coverage, including stories from the New York Times, BBC News, Mashable, Huffington Post, NBC News, New Scientist, Space.com, NPR Blogs, AFP, International Business Times, Mother Nature News, PhysOrg, Yahoo News, and many other national and international media outlets.
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More Eyes on the Skies
Astronomer Mike Bolte was quoted in a New York Times article about giant telescope projects, including the Thirty Meter Telescope.
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Could the mammoth make a comeback?
Biologist Beth Shapiro was quoted in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about the possibility of cloning a woolly mammoth. The story was distributed by Associated Press and ran in several other media outlets.
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Doom co-creator John Romero skeptical of virtual reality “fad”
John Romero, creative director of the games and playable media masters program, is featured in stories from Ars Technica and Games Industry about the changing landscape of video games.