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November 8, 1999

Making the News

Stan Woosley, professor and chair of astronomy and astrophysics, and his
graduate student Andrew MacFadyen were featured in a U.S. News and World
Report
story about gamma ray bursts. The article discussed new observations
that support Woosley and MacFadyen's theories regarding the origins of
gamma ray bursts. Their research is also the subject of an article on NASA's new Space Science News Web site.

In a talk at the Missouri Botanical Garden last month, professor of biology Lynda Goff caught the attention of a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Goff described her research on parasitism in red algae as "Borg biology" (a reference to an alien race in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation) because of the way the parasites take over and transform the cells of their hosts.

New Scientist magazine's cover story on October 16 focused on efforts by UCSC researchers, led by professor of chemistry and biochemistry David Deamer, and another group at Harvard University to develop nanopore technology for superfast DNA sequencing.

Ellen Moir of the New Teacher Center was on Pasadena radio station KPCC with California Education Secretary Gary Hart last week. . . . Also on southern California's airwaves was Mike Urban of politics, who was heard on Pacifica Radio's KPFK Radio in Los Angeles discussing Russia, the Chechen war, and Russian elections.

Rounding out the southern California media wave was Manuel Pastor of Latin American and Latino studies, who coauthored an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times about environmental justice. . . . More locally, Pastor participated in a Watsonville "visioning" forum on that community's future.


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