Media Coverage

Professor of literature Wlad Godzich was interviewed on the Public Radio International program, The World, about statues of Vladimir Lenin that can still be found worldwide, following news reports that Ukrainian protesters just took down a statue in Kiev.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about UCSC's Ethics Bowl team and how humanities students research and prepare to tackle tough ethical questions in regional and national competitions.

Game news site Polygon ran a story about the 20th anniversary of Doom, a highly influential computer game developed by John Romero, creative director of the games and playable media M.S.

Computer scientist Jim Whitehead was quoted in stories about a new iPad game his group developed as a way to crowdsource software verification, including stories in the San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Venture Beat, Tech Investory News, The Street, and Houston Chronicle.

Marine biologist Pete Raimondi is featured in another story about sea star wasting syndrome, this time from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Chemical & Engineering News ran an article about a new technique developed by biomolecular engineer Nader Pourmand for taking samples from living cells without damaging them, which was also covered in The Scientist and Nature Nanotechnology.

Biology grad student Caroline Casey was quoted in stories about her research on elephant seals in Live Science, Discovery News, NBC News, Yahoo News, and Oregon Herald.

Earth scientists Patrick Fulton, Emily Brodsky, and Casey Moore were all quoted in coverage of new results from the JFAST investigation of the Tohoku fault that caused the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, including stories from the New York Times, LiveScience, Nature, Mashable, U.S. News & World Report, Christian Science Monitor, Smithsonian, National…

Evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro and geneticist Ed Green, both experts on ancient DNA, were quoted in coverage of new findings from ancient DNA recovered from 400,000-year-old human fossils. Shapiro was quoted in the New York Times and Green in USA Today, and both articles were reprinted widely in other news outlets.

Brenda Romero, program director for the M.S. in games and playable media, was quoted in an article about changing attitudes toward computer games in Eurogamer and U.S. Gamer. Her board game 'Train' was also covered in Wired magazine in December.

Biologist Pete Raimondi was featured in coverage of the sea star wasting syndrome on NBC Nightly News.