Media Coverage

Paleontologist Justin Yeakel was quoted in coverage of his research on the Pleistocene predators of the mammoth steppe, including stories from Red Orbit, Field & Stream, Science 2.0, eScienceNews, and PhysOrg.

The San Francisco Chronicle published an opinion piece by Chancellor Blumenthal on the need to maintain federal support for medical research.  

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the 10th Annual César Chávez Convocation and the keynote address by United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about physicist Michael Nauenberg winning the 2013 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award.

Astronomer Steven Vogt was quoted in a story about the unusual characteristics of our solar system on Robert Krulwich's NPR blog "Krulwich Wonders."

The  San Jose Mercury News and the Santa Cruz Sentinel featured a story about associate professor of dance Ted Warburton, who will deliver the Arts Division’s 2013 Outstanding Faculty Research Lecture, plus direct a faculty dance concert with guest Bay Area alumni and students.

KQED's Quest science blog took a detailed look at apex predators and wildlife ecologist Chris Wilmer's study of pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Astrophysicist Jonathan Fortney was quoted in a New Scientist article about the rarity of carbon-rich "diamond" planets in our galaxy.

Seismologists Emily Brodsky and Patrick Fulton were featured in coverage of their work on the JFAST project to study the undersea fault involved in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, including stories in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Pasadena Star-News, Science Daily, Daily Bulletin, and Science Codex.

Time magazine profiled Harry Huskey, professor emeritus of computer science, in its coverage of the Computer History Museum's Fellow Awards. The story includes an audio clip of Huskey's appearance on Groucho Marx's radio quiz show, "You Bet Your Life," in 1950.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel published a story about a new smartphone app created by a company co-founded by emeritus music professor David Cope and former assistant arts dean Keith Muscutt, focused on technology stemming from decades of research by Cope in music and artificial intelligence. The story also appeared in engadget.com.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered Alumni Reunion Weekend with an article that was also published in the San Jose Mercury News, Pasadena Star-News, Monterey County Herald, Long Beach Press Telegram, Torrance Daily Breeze, and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin