Media Coverage

The San Francisco Chronicle quoted social science professor Julie Guthman in an article about food stamps and junk food. The article was republished by the blog GOPUSA.

The Washington Post quoted history professor Dana Frank about the upcoming elections in Honduras, where she noted that the vote will be “a new test” for the Obama administration, which initially denounced the 2009 coup against Zelaya but later recognized the post-coup government. Frank also contributed a piece about the elections to Foreign Affairs.

Marine biologist Baldo Marinovic is quoted in a New York Times article about the abundance of anchovies that has attracted large numbers of whales to Monterey Bay this year. The story also ran in the Herald Tribune.

Astronomer Garth Illingworth is featured in an article in USA Today about the search for the most distant galaxies. The story was distributed by AP and ran in many newspapers and other news outlets throughout the country.

IndieWire interviewed UCSC arts alumni Kimerly Bautista (Social Documentation masters degree in film production), whose film "Justice for My Sister" recently received the "Best Documentary" award at the 16Tth annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.

Marine biologists Pete Raimondi and John Pearse were quoted in a Washington Post article about the sea star wasting disease.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel announced that acclaimed opera, theater and festival director Peter Sellars will be the featured guest at UCSC's 13th Annual Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture, speaking on the topic "Creativity, Innovation and the Arts."

Global Times included comments from literature professor Chris Connery in a story about how the Shanghai government created socialist villages for model workers in 1952 to solve the severe accommodation shortages for Shanghai's 3 million workers after the city's liberation in 1951.

Physicist Joel Primack is featured in an article and video on the Big Think platform.

Britain's The Guardian interviewed Film and Digital Media emeritus professor Chip Lord about an irreverent reenactment of the famed Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination by the the Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective Lord co-founded, commenting on the media portrayal of the event.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about a city/university effort to collect and divert from the waste stream cast-offs stemming from students leaving off-campus housing.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote about future city water policy, UCSC's role and how the university has far exceeded city water-use reduction targets.