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June 25, 2001

Making the News

David Haussler, professor of computer science, was featured in a New York Times story about a meeting he helped organize between the two teams involved in sequencing the human genome--the private company Celera Genomics and the publicly funded Human Genome Project.

Film and digital media professor Eli Hollander was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education for a story on the impact of new digital-video technology on university film programs.

Manuel Pastor of Latin American and Latino studies coauthored an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times about environmental pollution in schools and the potential health impacts on children of air pollution.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about research on minke whales by graduate student Jason Gedamke and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Dan Costa.

Economist Lori Kletzer hit Marketplace Radio's airwaves with a commentary about her wage insurance proposal. Also in economics, Robert Fairlie was quoted in Business Week recently and was interviewed by USA Today about his research on Asian-American owned businesses.

Word about sociologist Marcia Millman's new book on romance continues to circumnavigate the globe with a review appearing in the African Sun Times.

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