April 22, 2002
Making the News
Alan Richards of environmental studies penned an incisive op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle about the social, economic, and political conditions underpinning the crisis in the Middle East.
KGO TV (Channel 7, San Francisco) recently aired a story about professor of ocean sciences Mary Silver and her research on toxic marine algae.
The San Jose Mercury News interviewed assistant professor of music Karlton
Hester about the three-day "Global African Music Festival," which Hester
produced.
Assistant professor of philosophy Alva Noë's research on neuroplasticity
and consciousness was the subject of a recent article in wired.com.
Sociology's Melanie DuPuis made the local media circuit, discussing her new
book about milk on KUSP and KSCO radio and in Metro Santa Cruz and the Santa
Cruz Sentinel, and appearing at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
Amelie Hastie, assistant professor of film and digital media, was a guest on KUSP Radio's Talking Pictures program in March and will be on the show again in May.
Gary Griggs, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, and Mark Carr, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, were quoted in an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about a visit to the Monterey Bay Area by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. Griggs and Carr both gave talks to the commissioners.
Sharon Daniel, assistant professor of film and digital media, was interviewed by the San Diego Union-Tribune on the power of temporary memorial shrines.
The San Francisco Chronicle gave a nice nod to the UCSC Farm & Garden in a lengthy profile of organic gardening visionary John Jeavons.
David Swanger, professor of education and creative writing, was a guest on KSCO's The Saturday Special for a program about education.
