Media Coverage
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Mark Fathi Massoud: How grass-roots peace can take hold in South Sudan
Writing in the Christian Science Monitor, Mark Fathi Massoud, assistant professor of politics and legal studies, says a cease-fire in South Sudan is a positive first step but grassroots efforts are needed to forge a lasting peace.
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Short on Ocean Data, Scientists Turn to Seals for Help
Climate Central ran a story about research led by marine biologist Dan Costa using seals to carry instruments for monitoring ocean conditions.
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Venerable Lick Observatory Faces Funding Cut
Astronomer Garth Illingworth was quoted in a California Report story about budget cuts at Lick Observatory.
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River Roulette: Randomness Controls Erosion
Geologist Noah Finnegan was quoted in a story about his research on how fast rivers erode rock in Live Science, Yahoo News, and Yahoo South Africa.
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Detention of US tourists to North Korea unusual
The Seattle Times quoted assistant professor of literature (East Asian Studies) Christine Hong in an article about Americans visiting North Korea despite strong warnings from the U.S. State Department, and the risk of being detained there. The story also appeared in Yahoo! News Canada.
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How Asian-Americans on Twitter are telling Hollywood to back off
KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) quoted associate professor of film & digital media L.S. Kim in a story about how Asian-Americans are using Twitter and other social media platforms in place of a public square to express perspectives and assert themselves in the American public discussion.
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UCSC student honored for musical claymation video game
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about Deirdra "Squinky" Kiai, a first-year student in UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media MFA program (DANM), who was named a finalist in four categories of the 2014 Independent Game Festival Awards, also quoting Noah Wardrip-Fruin, chair of the DANM program.
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UCSC alumni glow in TV spotlight
The Santa Cruz Sentinel featured an article about the success of two UCSC alumni in television, spotlighting Andy Samberg who received a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actor in a TV Series Comedy", and the premiere of Cary Fukunaga's hot new HBO series, True Detective.
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Astronomers catch a strand of 'cosmic web' in quasar's bright light
Astronomers Sebastiano Cantalupo and Xavier Prochaska were quoted in coverage of their discovery of a quasar illuminating a filament of the 'cosmic web,' including stories in the Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Nature, BBC News, UPI, Science News, National Geographic, New Scientist, Ars Technica, Independent, Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, French Tribune, Nature…
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Big Data
A cover story on "big data" in the Good Times weekly features UCSC experts David Haussler and Ethan Miller.
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Mystery Solved: How Do Dolphins Swim So Fast?
Biologist Terrie Williams was quoted in news stories from National Geographic and others about a study using dolphins Primo and Puka at Long Marine Lab to determine how dolphins are able to swim so fast. Stories also ran in Science Codex, PhysOrg, Top News, Zee News, International Business Standard, Newstrack India, and others.
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UCSC Team Adds TARGET Data to CGHub, Prepares to Accommodate CGCI Project
Bioinformatics experts David Haussler and Linda Rosewood were quoted in stories about new features in UCSC's Cancer Genomics Hub, a data portal used by cancer researchers throughout the country, including coverage from GenomeWeb, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Inside Bay Area, BioSpace, MedicalXpress, Health Canal, Science Daily, and Digital Me.