November 18, 2002
UCSC in the News
History of Consciousness professor Barbara Epstein was quoted in New Statesman about the global justice movement.
Psychology's Craig Haney appeared twice in the Los Angeles Times recently, first in a story about an inmate hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison and then in a Los Angeles Times Magazine story about prison rape.
Professor of physics Bruce Schumm was interviewed on KSCO Radio
about a new particle collider being planned for the Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center (SLAC).
Sociologist Dane Archer was quoted in the Financial Times about the murder rate in the United States.
Astrobiologist David Deamer, a research professor of chemistry
and biochemistry, was quoted in an article about extraterrestrial life
in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Inquirer story also ran
in the San Jose Mercury News.
Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy, was interviewed by the syndicated radio program Earth and Sky for a story about the search for new planets.
The San Jose Mercury News tapped Manuel Pastor of Latin American and Latino studies for its four-day series on the "shadow economy" of Silicon Valley, in which the working poor run side businesses to make ends meet.
Sue Carter, associate professor of physics, and Jin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, were featured in an article about solar energy research in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Carter was also quoted in a related story in the Sentinel business section.
Rob Fairlie of economics was quoted in Inc. magazine and contributed to a BBC/PBS four-part television series on black America, discussing black business ownership.
Theater arts instructor Patty Gallagher contributed comments analyzing circus as an art form to a San Jose Mercury article about Cirque du Soleil.
Francisco Hernandez was quoted in a Washington Internet Daily
story about the availability of online test preparation.
Angela Davis, professor of history of consciousness, was featured
in a Kansas City Star article about a talk she gave at the University
of Missouri regarding the prison system.
Highlights
of Making the News columns from the 2001-02 and 2002-03 academic years.
