Media Coverage
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Josh Groban Sings 'Late Show ' 'Top Ten Christmas Songs for 2013'
Josh Groban sang “UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz," to the tune of "Here Comes Santa Claus" on the CBS Late Show with David Letterman, Wednesday night. The song was Number Ten on the “Top Ten Christmas Songs from 2013." ABC Radio also did a story on the spot.
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After 20 years, Doom co-creator John Romero looks back on the impact of a seminal game
Venture Beat interviewed game designer John Romero on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Doom, the influential game he codeveloped at id Software.
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UCSC arboretum shifts fundraising approach
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about the UCSC Arboretum's fundraising efforts.
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Where in the world is Lenin these days?
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.
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UC Santa Cruz students prepare for ethics competition
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.
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Celebrating 20 years, Doom's legacy is its human connection
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.
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IPad game's underlying mission: checking software code
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.
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Mystery ailment is wiping out coast's starfish
Marine biologist Pete Raimondi is featured in another story about sea star wasting syndrome, this time from the San Francisco Chronicle.
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UC Santa Cruz droid robots battling tonight in Slugs vs. Bugs
KSBW-TV covered the student robotics competition, the culmination of computer engineer Gabe Elkaim's Mechatronics class.
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Nanobiopsies On Living Cells
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.
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How Elephant Seals Know Who's Boss
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.
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Decoding a Tsunami’s Source
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…